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Where on the deck my Captain lies, / Fallen dead and cold
Passage to India. [At head of title:] Leaves of Grass.
Washington, D.C: 1871.
Price: $4,000.00
About the item
First edition. iv, [5]-120 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later green half morocco, monogram RW to upper cover, t.e.g. Slight soiling to foot of title page. Very good. BAL 21404; Myerson A5.1.a1.
Item #375741
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 the only one that was printed as a separate volume; later issues were included in Leaves of Grass.
UNCOMMON.
