Good-Bye My Fancy

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Good-Bye My Fancy

Walt Whitman, 1891

WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Good-Bye My Fancy. Annex to Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891.



"From Walt Whitman."



Judge Garrison's copy, signed and inscribed by Walt Whitman on the frontispiece portrait. First edition. Judge Garrison was one of several speakers at Whitman's 70th birthday party in Camden. He has tipped into this volume the address panel from the original mailing envelope which is boldly addressed in Whitman's hand: "Judge Garrison / Cape May / New Jersey / from Walt Whitman / Camden." The portrait frontispiece is additionally signed and inscribed by the author in the lower margin: "Walt Whitman (sculptor's profile) May 1891."



Garrison's letter of thanks to Whitman for this very volume is preserved at the Library of Congress, dated 21 July 1891. In part: "'Good Bye my Fancy'" came announcing in your proper hand that it was from Walt Whitman. / I wish I could tell that same Walt Whitman somewhat of the debt I owe him. I have no apt words in which to speak of 'Leaves of Grass.' Other books, great poems or great theses whether or not in form dramatic are woven by the combination and re-arrangement of such characters and actions, such threads of thought and notions of life as prevailed at or before the authors time or were perceived by him ahead of his time." Whitman would commend the "extreme kindliness" of the Garrison family to Horace Traubel (With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 5, p.291). BAL 21440; Myerson A13 (notes a state of the frontispiece with a printed version of the original inscription present here; binding B).



Large octavo. Portrait frontispiece (text block cracked after title and title re-inserted). Original deep red cloth gilt-lettered (light wear to edges, spine a bit dulled); modern quarter morocco box. Provenance: Charles G. Garrison, New Jersey judge, 1849-1924 (original signed mailing cover tipped in, later pencil gift inscription dated 1894).

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