Leaves of Grass Poetry Collection

Leaves Of Grass

Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. " Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. The first edition published in 1855 contained 12 poems on 95 pages. The final edition published contained almost 400 poems.

First Edition Identification and Notes

On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the titleLeaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published on July 4, 1855, in Brooklyn, at the printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, and instead offered an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting Whitman in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few, but Whitman was not discouraged.

The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air", he explained.  About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover.  The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia.  The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself", "A Song for Occupations", "To Think of Time", "The Sleepers", "I Sing the Body Electric", "Faces", "Song of the Answerer", "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States", "A Boston Ballad", "There Was a Child Went Forth", "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths".

Other Collectible or Notable Editions

There have been held to be either six or nine editions ofLeaves of Grass, the count depending on how they are distinguished. Scholars who hold that an edition is an entirely new set of type will count the 1855, 1856, 1860, 1867, 1871–72, and 1881 printings. Others add in the 1876, 1888–89, and 1891–92 (the "deathbed edition") releases.

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Registered for copyright on 11 September 1856, the second edition of Leaves of Grass resulted from the continued surge of creativity that produced the first edition. The title page does not bear the author's name, but the verso page copyright is assigned to Walt Whitman (cf. Walter Whitman in the first edition). The little volume is bound in olive-green cloth; its front cover is blindstamped with leaves and berries and goldstamped "Leaves of Grass"; its back cover (without goldstamping) is identical. The spine is goldstamped with the title, leaf designs, and "I Greet You at the / Beginning of A / Great Career / R.W. Emerson." Unlike the slim outsized format of the first edition, this thick, squat volume measures approximately 6 2/3 by 3 3/16 inches and looks "like a fat hymn book" (Allen, Introduction xvi). The poems are set in well-leaded ten-point type, so that Whitman's characteristically long lines tend to overflow, sometimes three or four times. The New York Tribune advertised the one-dollar volume as "handy for pocket, table, or shelf" (Stern 121), so that when Whitman (in "Whoever You are Holding Me Now in Hand") challenges the reader to "carry me" "beneath your clothing," in breast or hip pocket, he imagines this volume as the embodiment of himself. The volume's frontispiece is a photograph of Whitman in the "carpenter" pose. Its 32 numbered poems, including all 12 carried over from the first edition, are for the first time given titles. They are followed by "Leaves-Droppings," consisting of Emerson's encouraging but private 21 July 1855 letter of praise (previously reprinted in the 10 October 1855 New York Tribune and tipped into some late issues of the first edition); Whitman's "dear Friend and Master" reply, in effect, a prose essay; and "Opinions, 1855–56"—nine favorable and unfavorable reviews, including two anonymous self-reviews. Despite its artistic merit, the volume was Whitman's greatest publishing failure. Its factual but unacknowledged publishers were Fowler and Wells, distributors of books and periodicals on phrenology, health reforms, and occasionally, belles lettres, to whose weekly Life Illustrated Whitman was then a contributor. Although reluctant to print the work, the firm advertised on 16 August in the same periodical that it was the principal distributor for this "neat pocket volume" in a stereotyped edition of 1,000 copies: "The author is still his own publisher, and Messrs. Fowler and Wells will again be his agents for the sale of the work" (qtd. in Stern 119). Despite Whitman's boast to Emerson that "these thirty-two Poems I stereotype to print several thousand copies of" (Comprehensive 730), sales were even poorer than those for the first edition; copies are now quite rare. Readers were embarrassed by such overtly sexual poems as "Spontaneous Me" and "A Woman Waits for Me," by the author's self-promotion, and by his unauthorized appropriation of Emerson's letter. Thus The Christian Examiner attacked the "foul work" ("Impious" 62) for its "pantheism and libidinousness" and its "self-applause" (63). Relations soured between poet and publisher. In 1857, when Whitman had 100 poems ready for the press, he declared that "Fowler & Wells are bad persons for me.—They retard my book very much" (Correspondence 1:44). This edition is more programmatic than its predecessor. In a notebook jotting, Whitman defines the "Idea to pervade" the book as "Eligibility—I, you, any one . . . any being, no matter who" (Notebook 8). And in a characteristic mixture of semi-mystic populism and personal hauteur, he positions himself as the spokesman-poet of the American masses, telling Emerson that "A profound person can easily know more of the people than they know of themselves" (Comprehensive 733). His letter to Emerson—in effect an essay explaining his poetic intentions to the literary establishment in the critical 1856 election year—asserts that his poems are intended to unify the nation, "for the union of the parts of the body is not more necessary to this life than the union of These States is to their life" (Comprehensive 733). He proposes a new literature for America to inspire a free, democratic youth, aware of their singularity and their sexuality and destined to overcome personal and national corruption. Like the authors of Fowler and Wells's manuals of reform and personal advice—many of whose ideas are interwoven into Whitman's poems—the persona often appears as a fatherly or brotherly counselor in matters physical, personal, or spiritual. At times his prescriptive tone borders on the prosaic, even the banal, and dilutes the intensity of some of the new poems. But Whitman was attempting to enlarge the poet-reader relationship by projecting himself as "the general human personality" (Bucke 63). And Whitman's contemporaries often found this hortatory tone to be congenial. Of this edition, Thoreau (while troubled by the edition's sensuality and its mixture of poetic wonders with "a thousand of brick") declared: "I do not believe that all the sermons, so-called, that have been preached in this land put together are equal to it for preaching" (Thoreau 68). With the 1856 edition Whitman began his lifelong practice of adding new poems, reworking previously published poems, and reordering poems into different groupings. Thus the dozen poems of the first edition are here distributed in the following sequence: 1, 4, 32, 26, 7, 27, 19, 16, 22, 25, 29, and 6, beginning with "Song of Myself," here called "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American." He added, deleted, and combined lines. For example, he deleted the two-line curse against those who defile the human body at the end of the 1855 "I Sing the Body Electric" and added a 36-line quasi-anatomical catalogue. He also began the practice of removing over-used conjunctions and abandoned the idiosyncratic but rhetorically effective combination of dots, dashes, and conventional punctuation of the first edition in favor of a more standardized system. The 1856 edition is more than an update; it is, in effect, a new work. Despite some poetic lapses, it is probably the most effectively designed of the six editions, and it is poetically dazzling. Its most impressive cluster of new poems, numbered 8 through 13, includes the following. The massive "By Blue Ontario's Shore," largely cannibalized from the 1855 prose Preface, is a paean to the present and future greatness of Americans ("It is I who am great, or to be great—it is you, or any one" [section 15]) and to the superb Whitman persona, the "equable," profound interpreter of the world and its symbols. "This Compost" evokes the persona's emotional interplay between his fear of death and his faith in the perpetuation of life. The short poem "To You [whoever you are]" is the persona's comradely outreach to his downtrodden fellows. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," with its stunning coloration and its musical and philosophical subtleties—the undisputed masterpiece of the second edition—pictures a deathless, empathic Whitman persona whose presence becomes palpable to generations of readers. "Song of the Open Road" presents the dynamic persona as a reader of the world's symbols proposing to lead the American masses out of their cramped existences into a continuum of transcendental selfhood. The group concludes with the sexually provocative "A Woman Waits for Me.''

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Brooklyn: [for the author], 1855. A COPY AUTOGRAPHED BY WALT WHITMAN, of the First Edition, First Issue in State "A" of the binding. SIGNED ON THE TITLE-PAGE IN UNUSUAL BLOCK LETTERS, we presume Whitman was musing on how the page would look with his name added to it, a change which would not be made in print… Read more

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Brooklyn, New York: For the author by Andrew & James Rome, 1855. First edition of the most important volume in American poetry, which Whitman personally financed, supervised and even in some sections hand-set the type for the small printing of 795 copies. Small folio, frontispiece engraved portrait of the author by Hollyer after the daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison, mounted… Read more

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Camden, NJ: 1876. Signed set Signed copies of the Centennial edition (comprising the first edition, second printing of Two Rivulets, and fifth edition, third printing, second issue of Leaves of Grass), of which around 800 and 600 copies respectively were printed. The portrait of Whitman in Two Rivulets is signed and dated by the author; the title page… Read more

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Whitman, 1876. Special Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The signed "author's edition," signed as called for by the author on the title page, but also additionally inscribed and dated July 27, 1876, by the author on the front free endpaper. Also bears the recipient's ownership signature on the front free endpaper, Ms. K. Hillard. This author's edition was published… Read more

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SIGNED Limited Edition of 600 copies self published by Walt Whitman. A magnificent copy. This copy is SIGNED by Walt Whitman on the title page. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in… Read more

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Brooklyn, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1856. Rare second edition, one of a 1000 copies of the most important volume in American poetry, with an additional twenty poems not found in the first edition as well as a new section of correspondence and reviews entitled "Leaves-droppings" that begins with the famous letter from Emerson containing the salutation "I greet… Read more

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Camden, New Jersey, 1876 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 600 copies SIGNED by Walt Whitman. This edition is known as the "Author's Edition" A magnificent copy. The book appears UNREAD. The binding is tight, with NO cocking or leaning. The boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in… Read more

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First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Walt Whitman. This author's edition has the two portrait plates of Whitman bound in the original 1/2 cream calf over marbled boards. A beautiful copy. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A… Read more

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Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co, 1882. Reprint. Very Good. Reprint utilizing slightly altered plates from the 1881-82 Boston edition. Signed by Walt Whitman on the first blank sheet, inscribed "J. William Thompson from the author." Thompson was London lawyer who corresponded with Whitman, occasionally ordering books directly from the author. Bound in publisher's mustard cloth stamped in gilt.… Read more

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Camden, New Jersey. , 1876.. A fine and handsome example of this important work, the text is clean and crisp. . Binding: contemporary half morocco over green marbled boards, title in gilt on brown morocco label on spine. Rebacked skillfully saving the original spine., Notes: Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman… Read more

Leaves of Grass

by WHITMAN, WALT

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1860

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Third Edition; printing 1 (BAL 21397- "probable sequence"); state 1 of the frontispiece portrait; BAL binding B (no sequence est

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Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860. Third Edition; printing 1 (BAL 21397- "probable sequence"); state 1 of the frontispiece portrait; BAL binding B (no sequence established, but binding A was issued in wrappers for reviewers). A much better than usual copy, easily exceptional, with only slight foxing, wear and shaking; tiny, contemporary bookseller's label on the upper corner of… Read more

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Philadelphia: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Printing 1 Copyright date is 1860-1861 First printing Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-1861. Third edition. 12mo. Original orange cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, beveled edges. BAL 21397, first printing, third state of the portrait, binding state C. Original orange… Read more

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Washington, DC: Walt Whitman, 1872. First Washington edition, cloth issue. 8vo, publisher's original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. vi,384,120,14 pp. A well preserved, tight and clean copy of this very scarce edition, some light or normal evidence of age mellowing. The cloth colour still dark and unfaded. … Read more

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This is the fourth Leaves of Grass. The failure of Thayer & Eldridge, publisher of the third edition (Boston, 1860), left Whitman in search of a publisher. The poet decided that the events of the Civil War called for another reimagining of Leaves of Grass. Whitman returned to his earlier practice and financed the publication himself, engaging the New York… Read more

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1872. WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Original cloth. Washington, D.C., 1872. BAL 21407. Contains the 1871 edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, and PASSAGE TO INDIA, 1871, with revisions and alterations. Cloth rubbed, edges worn. Overall very good. In a morocco and marbled paper clamshell box. This particular volume contains an original 3" x 5" photograph of Walt Whitman, not… Read more

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Plastic cover - ex libris sticker inside front cover, reasonable condition

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New York: [William E. Chapin], 1868. Fourth edition, Myerson's second issue. Fourth edition, presumed second issue with Drum-Taps and "Songs Before Parting" listed on contents with the comment "See Table of Contents prefixed" (Myerson A 2.4.a2). Publisher's half black leather with marbled paper-covered sides; later cloth (sans title label) over spine (which may still be present) and outer hinges;… Read more

LEAVES OF GRASS

by WHITMAN, Walt (Edward WESTON)

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1942

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Tasteful bookplate on each front pastedown. Just a touch of wear to the spine tips. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with fain

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on each front pastedown. Just a touch of wear to the spine tips. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with faint dampstaining to the edge of one side. Uncommon in this condition. Edward Weston. Two slim, tall quarto (9" x 12") volumes bound in imitation vellum reproducing in… Read more

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New York: [William E. Chapin], 1867. Fourth Edition, Second Issue. Half Leather. Fair binding. The Fourth Edition, presumed Second Issue, of Leaves of Grass with all of the points according to Myerson. The contents page incorrectly lists Drum-Taps in addition to Leaves of Grass and "Songs Before Parting", as called for by Myerson. Scattered markings in pencil to… Read more

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Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. Third Edition. An exceptional copy of Whitman's most enduring work. Myerson A2.3.c. Presumed third (first unauthorized) printing [1880]. Octavo (19.25cm); Myerson's Binding A, in deep purplish-red pebble-grain cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and in blind to spine and front covers; pale yellow endpapers; frontispiece portrait of Whitman is in Form 3… Read more

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New York: David McKay. 1900. Fine Binding. Near Fine in custom binding. 1/4 leather. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Light rubbing along panel edges. ; All domestic orders shipped protected in a Box. .

LEAVES OF GRASS

by WHITMAN, Walt (Edward WESTON)

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Charles Agvent

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1942

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Very minor wear to the spine tips and corners. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Hardcover. Very minor wear to the spine tips and corners. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Edward Weston. Two slim, tall quarto (9" x 12") volumes bound in imitation vellum reproducing in dark grass-green ink a photograph by Edward Weston who has illustrated the volume with 49 photographs specially commissioned for this book… Read more

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Edward Weston. Frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs by Edward Weston. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. 2 volumes, large slim 4to, pictorial boards with brown leather labels on spine, (tops of spine lightly worn), brown cloth slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942. Near fine.<br/><br/> Limited… Read more

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Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher. One of 50 numbered copies on Japan vellum, signed by Thomas Bird Mosher. Nice copy in very good+ to near fine. Has prior owner's gift inscription and bookplater. Large or heavy book and may require extra postage. No AMAZON international order on this title. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall . Very Good… Read more

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. First edition thus. Spine ends show some wear, otherwise fine in original plastic jackets (reinforced with cellotape), and rubbed slipcase, worn at upper joints.. Weston, Edward. 2 vols., 4tos, xxix + 264pp + index; original decorative boards with leather spine labels; slipcase. Limited to 1500 copies, signed by Weston at the colophon… Read more

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London: Everyman's Library, 1964. Everyman's Library edition of Whitman's masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpeices to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.… Read more

Leaves of Grass

by WHITMAN, WALT

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1872

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BAL 21407. Published anonymously. Bound with the 1872 edition of Passage to India. This edition corrects various errors in the 1

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Washington, D.C.: no publisher, 1872. BAL 21407. Published anonymously. Bound with the 1872 edition of Passage to India. This edition corrects various errors in the 1871 editions of both, and adds a poem to the second title not included in its earlier printing. Publisher's cloth; bubbled; some wear; minor page stains; good to very good.

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New York: Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1942. Limited/Signed/Numbered. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in original decorative green covers. Each spine has a brown leather label with the title stamped in gilt. Hinges & text tight & intact. Leaves are bright & clean. In a two toned VG green slipcase. Illustrated with glossy black & white photographs by… Read more

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Thayer and Eldridge. 1860-61, 1860-01-01. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. Stated 1860-61 printing, but later. Bound in publisher's deep-purplish cloth. Good binding and cover. BAL binding state C. Beveled edges. Spine cloth slightly lightened. Myerson's Binding A. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman (unsigned by S.A. Schoff), calligraphic title. 456pp. Early gift… Read more

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Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass "Deathbed Edition" Including Sands at Seventy…1st Annex; Good-bye My Fancy…2nd Annex; A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads and a Portrait from Life [Deathbed Edition]. 22 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-'2. Illustrated by Steel engraving and original tissue guard of Whitman at age 35 by Samuel Hollyer after a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel… Read more

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A rare survival in original wrappers. This is an undated printing of McKay's "Deathbed Edition," complete with the full text extended to p. 438 and including the Hollyer portrait of Whitman at p. 28. This printing, an effort to market Whitman in a cheap but complete edition, is not noted in Myerson. Provenance: pencil inscription of C. L. Lewes dated… Read more

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Author, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. The fifth edition, BAL 21403, in a handsome binding by Stikeman. 3/4 crushed green morocco on light green buckram, gilt ruling to the boards, raised bands, title and devices in gilt in the compartments, original wraps not bound in, tiny Stikeman signature on the verso of the first blank leaf. Text… Read more

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Thayer and Eldridge. 1860-61, 1860-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1860 Thayer & Eldridge pebbled cloth boards blind stamped front and rear binding slightly shaken, tissue guarded frontis, small tear to cloth head and toe of spine. 456 pages. Lacks the printer's and stereotyper's imprints indicating a Richard Worthington pirated edition. Please email for photos.

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Pages 404 pp.Folio. Decorated paper over boards, brown morocco leather spine. Top edge gilt. In slipcase. Limited edition of 1100 copies. Wood engravings by Boyd Hanna. Tiny bit of wear to spine. Else in fine condition. Some wear & soiling to box.

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New York: New Era Productions, 1971. Draft script for the 1971 musical, which premiered Off-Broadway on September 12 at Theatre Four. Notated in holograph ink as copy No 14A on the title page. An experimental musical based on Walt Whitman's 1855 collection of poetry. Green titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, with credits for poet… Read more

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Hanna, Boyd. (Hanna, Boyd)illus. LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman. Peter Pauper Press, Mt. Vernon, NY. Not dated, but 1950. Folio, Brown morocco over paper-covered boards with grass pattern, with gilt-lettered spine slipcase, 400pp., illustrated with 16 full-page color wood-engravings by Boyd Hanna. An unnumbered (out of series) copy from the edition of 1100. A luxuriously produced edition,… Read more

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Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1920. Bound in Dark Green cloth, stamped in gold. With the title on the front and black panels of book with gilt edging on both panels. The second facsimile edition, limited to 500 copies. This is a near perfect copy with no discernible flaws and the original dust jacket has one tiny… Read more

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E-128: D. Appleton & Company. Good+. 1919. Leather. Leather. 8vo. D. Appleton & Company, New York. No Date. [1919]. Centenary Edition. Three volumes in one. Includes Sands at Seventy, Good Bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads. 294, 323, 255 pgs. Illustrated with frontispiece. Bound by Riviere and Company green… Read more

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Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, 1900. hardcover. Condition is Very Good+, bound in 1/2 leather with marbled boards and end papers, with gilt titles and decorations at spine. Two bookplates inside front cover. Fading to color at spine. Owner gift inscription to second front end page in a graceful script. No markings to text. 8vo, 8 1/4"h x 5 3/4"w.… Read more

Leaves of Grass

by WHITMAN, WALT

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Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

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1860

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Supposed Third Edition; printing 2 (BAL 21397); state 3 of the frontispiece portrait. Tiny puncture at the edge of the front cov

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Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860. Supposed Third Edition; printing 2 (BAL 21397); state 3 of the frontispiece portrait. Tiny puncture at the edge of the front cover extending through the first few leaves; spine faded; very good. The publisher quickly sold out the first printing and produced a second one before going into bankruptcy. The plates enjoyed a longer… Read more

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Boston MA: James R. Osgood and Co., 1881-1882. Seventh edition, 3rd printing. Hardcover. Very good. 5 x 7/12 inches. 382 pages. BAL 21418. Osgood printed 3 printings of this edition which was the first to include the "Sexuality Odes" this is the 3rd printing [C] (510 copies printed), 1881-1182 on title page. Banned by Boston DA as obscene,… Read more

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Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1943. Hardcover. Half brown morocco and patterned boards in leaf motif, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. 400 [3] pages. Folio, 37 x 25 cm. Limited edition, one of 1100, this copy out-of-series, unnumbered. Colored woodcuts by Boyd Hanna printed directly from the blocks, Waverley and Lydian fonts, mould-made paper by the Hurlburt… Read more

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Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. Bumped corners and some material loss at spine ends. 2 small insect holes at top of spine. 1" split at bottom of lower joint. Spine faded and covers splashed and rubbed. Hinges starting and book a bit shaken. Covers blindstamped with sunset on lower cover, butterfly on spine and… Read more

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Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher / William Francis Gable, 1920. one of 500 copies of the Facsimile Edition, Second Impression of 1920; previous owner's neatly penned signature on ffep, otherwise the textblock is very clean, unmarked and tight; binding slightly edge worn at the spine extremities, board edges and corners; spine titling slightly faded; Includes a memoriam composed by… Read more

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Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. Near fine. Undated.Number 265 of a limited edition of 1100 copies printed on mould-made paper by the Hurlburt Paper Company, using Waverley and Lydian fonts. Folio. Beautifully illustrated with colored woodcuts by Boyd Hanna. List of Patrons and Sponsors for this edition printed at the end. Private ex-libris ink stamp on… Read more

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Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., 1882. In original mustard cloth gilt. A reprint from slightly altered plates of the Boston, 1881-82, edition. (BAL 21419) Laid-in is an undated institutional ad, about 3x5", from Rees Welsh soliciting purchase of libraries or any collection of books. Spine ends crumpled, upper cover stained and with remnant of paper removal.… Read more

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Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. Clean and bright in sound binding. VG+, gold stamped mustard cloth. Few tiny spots of wear to spine ends and to extreme corner tips at bottom corners of covers. Gilt top edge of text block, Deckle edges to fore and bottom edge of text block. Cloth covers very lightly rubbed. Gold stamping is clear, distinct and… Read more

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Philadelphia: David McKay, (1900). Octavo. An octavo, 438 pages, bound in original forest green cloth with gilt titles on spine. There is some rubbing and wear to the binding as well as a few places of discoloration but overall this remains a nice bright copy of the "Death Bed Edition". Contains First and Second Annex as well as " A… Read more

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Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1882. hardcover. very good. Engraved portrait frontispiece. 8vo , publisher's purple-brown pebbled cloth; beveled edges (light wear); title page partly detached. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge. Year 85 of the States (1860-61).<br/><br/> This is the spurious third edition, published by Richard Worthington in 1879 & after, lacking publisher's imprint.<br/><br/>

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London: The Folio Society, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2009 [first thus]. Quarto, xiv, 185 pages with numerous illustrations by Abigail Rorer. Quarter gilt-decorated leather and patterned and gilt-lettered cloth; top edge gilt; a fine copy in the lightly scuffed and sunned slipcase. "This Folio Society edition is based on the first edition [of 1855], with… Read more

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