Price: $100
New York: Random House [Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merry Mount Press, Boston], 1929. First Edition Thus, one of 700 copies. Read More Item Details for Franklin Evans or the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times. With an Introduction by Emory Holloway Add to Wish List
Item #39631
![Item #375741 Passage to India. [At head of title:] Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/375741.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767730640)
Price: $4,000
Washington, D.C: 1871. First edition. First edition of the resonant Passage to India poems in Whitman’s early 1870s additions to Leaves of Grass. Includes President Lincoln’s Burial Hymn, or “When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d” and “O Captain ! My Captain!” The first issue of Passage to India is..... Read More Item Details for Passage to India. [At head of title:] Leaves of Grass Add to Wish List
Item #375741
Price: $7,500
Camden, NJ: 31 August 1876. "I forward to you by mail to-day, addressed same as this card, a set of my Books, Two Volumes. Please send me word (by postal card will do) soon as they reach you safely." George Henry Lewes, a respected Victorian author, critic, and philosopher, is..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Note Signed, "WW," George Henry Lewes: Add to Wish List
Item #371186
Price: $500
Boston: 3 September 1897. Whitman’s publisher David McKay writes to the Reverend L.M. Powers of Somerville at the suggestion of William Sloan Kennedy (1850-1929), in search of a copy of the 1871-2 edition of Leaves of Grass, asking the Reverend to name his price or to accept in exchange a...... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed, to a Massachusetts collector of Whitman, negotiating for a copy of the 1871-2 Leaves of Grass Add to Wish List
Item #367516
Price: $100
New York: Harper & Brothers, April, 1892. Illustrated with a sketch of Whitman by J.W. Alexander, and reprinted in Leaves of Grass (1897), p. 428. Read More Item Details for "Death's Valley" IN Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 84, No. 503 Add to Wish List
Item #365161
Price: $275
New York: J & H.G. Langley, December, 1841. Fiction, appears at pp. 560-568. Read More Item Details for "Bervance: or, Father and Son" IN The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Vol. IX, No. XLII Add to Wish List
Item #365151
Price: $275
New York: J & H.G. Langley, November, 1841. Read More Item Details for "Wild Frank's Return" IN TThe United States Magazine and Democratic Review Vol. IX, No. XLI Add to Wish List
Item #365150
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Price: $275
New York: J & H.G. Langley, August, 1841. Piece of fiction by Whitman, reprinted many times, and appearing in Speciman Days (pp. 340-344). Read More Item Details for "Death in the School-Room [a Fact]" IN The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Vol. IX, No. XXXVIII Add to Wish List
Item #365149
Price: $275
New York: The Century Co, May 1890. Reprinted as "A Twilight Song" in Good-Bye My Fancy, p. 14. Read More Item Details for "A Twilight Song for Unknown Buried Soldiers, North and South" IN The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. XL, No. 1 Add to Wish List
Item #365141
Price: $275
New York: The Century Co, 1888. Incorporates material from " 'Tis But Ten Years Since [Fourth-Sixth Papers]" in New York Weekly Graphic, 21, 28 February, 7 March 1874... Revised as "Last of the War Cases" in November Boughs, pp. 109-118 (Myerson). Read More Item Details for "Army Hospitals and Cases: Memoranda at the Time, 1863-66" IN The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6 Add to Wish List
Item #365111
Price: $750
New York: Wilson & Company, 1841-1842. Includes two first printings of Whitman: —"Ambition" (Vol. I, January 29, 1842, p. 113) —"Boz and Democracy" (Vol. I, February 26, 1842, pp. 243-244). Read More Item Details for Two First Printings of Whitman IN Brother Jonathan, Vols. I-III, January-December, 1842 Add to Wish List
Item #365107
Price: $900
New York: J & H.G. Langley, 1841-1842. Includes: —"Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (Vol. IX, August, 1841, pp. 177-181) —"Wild Frank's Return" (Vol. IX, November, 1841, pp. 476-482) —"Bervance: or, Father and Son" (Vol. IX, December, 1841, pp. 560-568) —"The Tomb-Blossoms" (Vol. X, January, 1842, pp. 62-68) —"The Last..... Read More Item Details for Eight First Printings of Whitman IN The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volumes IX-XI, July, 1841-December, 1842 Add to Wish List
Item #365106
Price: $450
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. First Edition, first (of three) printings. Read More Item Details for November Boughs Add to Wish List
Item #354352
Price: $1,200
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. First edition, Large Paper, one of 400 of the "Third Printing," produced by Whitman for the sole purpose of distribution to his personal friends. Presentation copy, inscribed by Whitman's literary executor, friend, and biographer, Horace Traubel, to bibliographer Henry Buxton Forman, on front free endpaper, "To..... Read More Item Details for November Boughs Add to Wish List
Item #354351
Price: $450
New York: The New York Public Library, 1968. First edition. Read More Item Details for Walt Whitman's Blue Book: The 1860-61 Leaves of Grass Containing His Manuscript Additions and Revisions. I. Facsimile of the unique copy in the Oscar Lion Collection of the New York Public Library. II. Textual Analysis by Arthur Golden Add to Wish List
Item #353748
Price: $650
[London: Edy Brothers, Summer 1880]. This image of Whitman is closely cropped from one of the portraits of Whitman taken during his visit to Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke in London, Ontario, and bears a transcription in an unknown hand from the preface to Leaves of Grass (1855), in the variant..... Read More Item Details for Photographic Copy Print of Walt Whitman Add to Wish List
Item #339095
Price: $1,000
Philadelphia: Gutekunst, late 1880s. An attractive image of the good grey poet. In his day books, Whitman recorded receiving photographs from Philadelphia portraitist Gutekunst in March 1880. This is a later phototype of the portrait, dated to the later 1880s from a signed example in the Berg Collection at NYPL..... Read More Item Details for Phototype portrait of Walt Whitman, bearded, in soft hat and open collar shirt and jacket Add to Wish List
Item #338375
Price: $300
[Boston]: [Privately Printed for] Alice and Rollo Silver, 1972. First separate edition (by this publisher), publisher's mock-up proof. For the publisher's mock-up: Single sheet of beige cardstock, folded once to make four twelvemo pages, printed in red (with paste-on mock-up printed in black). Prints a twenty-five line statement by Walt..... Read More Item Details for ("Political democracy, as it exists and practically works...")/ A Christmas Greeting from Alice and Rollo Silver, 1972 Add to Wish List
Item #332603
Price: $750
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Siskind. Read More Item Details for Song of the Open Road Add to Wish List
Item #324016
Price: $5,500
Camden: May 31, 1889. Published in Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: McKay, 1889), with the text as corrected by Whitman. Walt Whitman graciously declines to address the gathering in his honor at the Complimentary Dinner, Camden, New Jersey, May 31, 1889, marking this proof with an added sentence, “My..... Read More Item Details for At the Complimentary Dinner, Camden, New Jersey, May 31, 1889 Add to Wish List
Item #322514
Price: $900
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. Only edition, third printing. Inscribed on the ffep: "To John Malone with the admiration of Horace Traubel Jul. 1896." "These sheets are probably the 400 copies printed in May, 1891. . . . It seems probable . . . that after Whitman's death his executors had..... Read More Item Details for November Boughs Add to Wish List
Item #317455
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Price: $2,750
Washington, D.C: 1872. First edition. Supplement to the 1872 Washington edition of Leaves of Grass. Uncommon. Read More Item Details for As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And Other Poems. [At head of title:] Leaves of Grass Add to Wish List
Item #263369
Price: $2,500
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (printed at the Knickerbocker Press), 1902. Book-Lover's Camden Edition, #387 of 500 copies, printed on hand-made paper. A handsome set. 3 volumes of Leaves of Grass, and 7 volumes of Whitman's Complete Prose. Read More Item Details for Complete Writings. Issued under the editorial supervision of his Literary Executors, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel. With additional bibliographical and critical material prepared by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph.D Add to Wish List
Item #261368
Price: $300
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, the Knickerbocker Press, 1920. First edition, one of 1250 copies. Read More Item Details for The Gathering of the Forces ... Editorials, Esays, Literary and Dramatic Reviews and Other Material Written by Walt Whitman as Editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847. Edited by Cleveland Rogers and John Black Add to Wish List
Item #218386
Price: $500
New York: J. & H.G. Langley, December, 1841. First appearance of Walt Whitman's "Bervance: or, Father and Sons" Rare and early appearance Walt Whitman's, "Bervance: or, Father and Sons" at pages 560 - 568. One of Whitman's earliest appearances in print, the article is signed "Walter Whitman." Read More Item Details for The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review Add to Wish List
Item #15540