| Show how some of worlds great writers secured publication of their works john I NIS is not original when in tile hie autumn of 1903 W 3 liipa alid I 1 d a local bookseller to paint ills hist bunk bot ic of phenis bems oscar ocar wilde had dum don the same before liim him so had rdward 1 fitzgerald bilth iiii his traisia tiou tion of i ornar khayyam anil and walt wait whitman knitli etli ills I lemes bams of grass crass tint but in ili Drink naters waters case lie made no to lliel it publisher for ills his doellis Iio po eins ellis liu Plo probably lilily bably lie felt it mas as hope less for lie says in ili ills raphy it was in fit truth a pathetic little book I 1 2 J copies bullies wore were printed I 1 had bad most of them on ni DI v Y hands for two or three bears when ihen having learnt better I 1 destroyed YOU hat poor fitzgerald after ornar omar khayyam around the london publishing world anil 1 not 11 1 being able to III a 1 single in it had it printed nt at liis his ON expense lust list it 11 few bull dred cople wore were run olt oil and very few ore cre sold FID finally dis discouraged our a ge d lie sot got lid of the remaining stock to Quail th the london book bookseller ivil alu dumped them in ill ills penny box and left then them to their fate so iso far as Is kno known wn there aie cilly a f few ew copies in C T I 1 it once today ind and lach eacle is worth its weight in gold after coln for neaily deady a year tu to get ills filst book of pu poems e published ascar wilde paid fo for r tl the i e antl jig and production of the bo book ak it had an 1111 extraordinary success four editions bald id in ill 1 a I few deeks that was il ii lc iw 4 0 ISSI walt whitman in 1855 at tile lie ass age of thirty six set f ct up lip tile the tips for and himself plin painted ted the first edition of leades Lec ties of f grass crass the volume vo lume did not display liis ills name but did e ev ills his pl A copy sent to emerson ell cited the alie now DOW well known letter inter of commendation whittier threw ills his copy into tile the lire fire and thu the bulk of tile the edition put on sale at a studio drew purchaser scarcely a |
