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Ninth edition.
Octavo, paper wrappers, paper label, uncut; title, contents, pp. 438.
Later issues were bound in cloth and have the publisher's address at 1022 Market Street.
1892Complete Prose Works. Walt Whitman. Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 23 South Ninth Street, 1892.
Octavo, green cloth, uncut, gilt top; title, contents, viii, pp. 522.
1892Selected Poems. By Walt Whitman. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892.
16 mo, grey cloth; half-title, portrait, editor's note, pp. 179; advertisements.
In the Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series.
Edited by Arthur Stedman.
1892Autobiographia, or the Story of a Life. By Walt Whitman. Selected from his Writings. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892.
16 mo, grey cloth; half-title, photo of Mickle Street, Camden house, title, editor's note, W. W. by E. C. S., pp. 205; advertisements.
The publisher failed and very few copies reached the market.
In the Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series edited by Arthur Stedman.
There is an issue in blue cloth from the same plates, uncut, bearing the imprint of G. P. Putnam's Sons, London, 1892, and some bearing the McKay imprint.
1893In Re Walt Whitman. Edited by his Literary Executors, Horace L. Traubel, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned [quotation from Lucretius]. Published by the Editors through David McKay, 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 1893.
Octavo, cloth, uncut; half-title, title, a First and Last Word, contents, x, pp. 452; advertisements. But 1,000 copies were published. Each copy was to be numbered consecutively, though many are found without the number. Most copies have the signatures of one or all the executors.
The volume contains the following by Walt Whitman:
Walt Whitman and his Poems, pp. 13-21.
Leaves of Grass: a volume of poems just published, pp. 23-26.
An English and an American Poet, pp. 27-32.
Letters in Sickness: Washington, 1873, pp. 73-92.
The first three articles were written by Whitman during 1855-56 and sent to the newspapers anonymously. He insisted that considering the misunderstanding and abuse accorded to Leaves of Grass, he was compelled to resort to these methods to defend his work in columns that would have been otherwise closed to him. The latter was a series of letters to his mother.
[*]1895The Masterpiece Library. XXVII. Poems by Walt Whitman [quotation]. London: "Review of Reviews," Office Price One Penny.
Duodecimo, orange wrappers, pp. 60; advertisements. No. 27 of the Penny Poets.
Quite scarce.
[*] Date registered British Copyright Office.
1897Leaves of Grass including Sands at Seventy, Good-Bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Traveled Roads. By Walt Whitman [device]. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1897.
Octavo, green cloth, uncut; portrait, title, poem, author's note, no pagination, pp. 455.
Later editions from the same plates:
D. Appleton & Company.
Mitchell Kennerley.
Doubleday, Page & Company.
Calamus. A Series of Letters Written during the Years 1868-1880. By Walt Whitman to a Young Friend [Peter Doyle]. Edited with an introduction by Richard Maurice Bucke, M. D., one of Whitman's literary executors. [Quotation from p. 102, "Leaves of Grass," edition of 1892.] Published by Laurens Maynard at 287 Congress Street in Boston, MDCCCXCVII.
Duodecimo, boards, cloth back, paper label; zinc etching of Whitman and Peter Doyle reproduced from a photograph by Rice, Washington, D. C., 1869; title, 4 pp. quotations, chronological notes of Walt Whitman's life, introduction, pp. 173.
The first issue was limited to 35 numbered copies. A regular edition was published at the same time.
1898Complete Prose Works. Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good-Bye My Fancy. By Walt Whitman [device]. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.
Octavo, cloth, uncut; half-title, portrait, title, contents, list of illustrations, pp. 527.
Later editions from the same plates:
A. Appleton & Company.
Mitchell Kennerley.
Doubleday, Page & Company.
The Wound Dresser. A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion. By Walt Whitman. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke, M. D., one of Whitman's literary executors [device]. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.
Octavo, red buckram, uncut; title, portrait, contents, pp. 201.
The edition was limited to 10 copies signed by the editor; the earliest of these copies have the publisher's device slightly out of the center.
1898Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman. Edited with an Introduction by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph.D. (The University of Chicago) [device]. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.
Octavo, buckram, uncut; half-title, portrait, title, dedication, preface, contents, introduction xliii, half-title, pp. 248. Selected bibliography (251)-257.
1898"Walt Whitman at Home." By Himself. Critic Pamphlet No. 2. New York: The Critic Co., 1898.
Duodecimo, sewn, uncut; title, portrait, pp. 21. Facsimiles of Walt Whitman's manuscript on pp. 15 and 21.
1899Notes and Fragments. Left by Walt Whitman and now Edited by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, one of his literary executors. "Waifs from the Deep Cast High and Dry," Leaves of Grass, pp. 278. Printed for Private Distribution only, 1899.
Small quarto, pebbled cloth, uncut; half-title, title, preface, pp. 211.
250 copies.
1900Leaves of Grass. By Walt Whitman. Including a Facsimile Autobiography, variorum readings of the poems and a department of Gathered Leaves [device]. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1022 Market St.
8vo, green cloth; g.t., uncut; portrait, title, preface by David McKay, contents, x, facsimile of Whitman's autobiography, pp. 510, alphabetical index of titles, (511)-516. There are portraits facing pp. 31, 117, 395 of the text.
1900Leaves of Grass [device]. Walt Whitman. New York and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co.
18mo, pictorial board on cloths, uncut, portrait, title, pp. 88; advertisements.
1900When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Essex House Press, London: 1900.
12mo. vellum, uncut.
135 copies on vellum.
1902The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman. 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 by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph.D. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press.
Ten volumes, various bindings, uncut.
Every scrap of paper and memoranda of Whitman's is here collected and edited by his literary executors. Leaves of Grass takes up three volumes; the Prose works seven.
Vol. 1. Introduction. Leaves of Grass.
Vol. 2. Leaves of Grass.
Vol. 3. Leaves of Grass, variorum readings, index.
Vol. 1. Specimen Days.
Vol. 2. Specimen Days; Collect.
Vol. 3. Collect, November Boughs, Good-Bye My Fancy.
Vol. 4. Good-Bye My Fancy, The Wound Dresser.
Vol. 5. Calamus, chapters by T. B. Harned.
Vol. 6. Notes and Fragments.
Vol. 7. Notes and Fragments, The Growth of Leaves of Grass,
Bibliography, by O. L. Triggs.
There are several editions; three of which were published simultaneously.
Autograph edition, with ms. inserted 32 sets. Paumanok edition, coloured plates 300 sets. Camden edition 300 sets.The Lamb Publishing Company later published from the same plates:
National edition 1,000 copies. 1904Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada with Extracts from other of his Diaries and Literary Note-Books. Edited by William Sloane Kennedy [device]. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, MCMIV.
Octavo, grey boards, parchment back and corners, uncut; half-title, portrait, title, editor's preface, pp. 73.
The edition was limited to 500 copies of which few were sold, the balance being bound up in light blue cloth, some without portrait.
1904An American Primer. By Walt Whitman, with Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript. Edited by Horace Traubel [device]. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, MCMIV.
8vo, grey boards, vellum back and corners, uncut; half-title, portrait, title, foreword, half-title, 3 pp. facsimiles, pp. 35.
The edition was limited to 500 copies of which few were sold, the balance being bound up in light blue cloth, some without portrait.
1904Leaves of Grass [selected]. With a prefactory note by Harry Roberts. London: Anthony Treherne & Co., Ltd., 1904.
Duodecimo, cloth, title, preface, pp. 272.
Vol. I of the Vagabonds Library.
1904Selected Poems of Walt Whitman. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, Ph.D. [device]. New York: Charles E. Merrill Co.
16 mo, brown wrappers, title, introduction, critical opinions, bibliography, pp. 63.
In Maynard's English Classic Series, No. 242.
1904Song of Myself. I, Walt Whitman, now thirty-seven years old, in perfect health, begin, hoping to cease not till death. I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are the most spiritual poems, and I will make the poems of my body and mortality. Done into print by the Roycrofters at their shop which is in East Aurora, New York, A.D. MDCCCCIV.
Small quarto, various bindings, uncut; half title, portrait, title, pp. 70.
1905Lafayette in Brooklyn. By Walt Whitman, with an Introduction by John Burroughs. New York: George D. Smith, 1905.
Octavo, grey boards, paper labels, uncut; half-title, publisher's note and autograph signature portrait on Japan paper, title, contents, list of plates, note, half-title, facsimile of manuscript on Japan paper, note, Lafayette in Brooklyn, notes. No pagination. There is a portrait of Lafayette in the text. The issue was limited to 250 copies, 15 of which were on Imperial Japanese vellum, the balance on hand-made paper.
1905The Book of Heavenly Death by Walt Whitman, compiled from Leaves of Grass by Horace Traubel [device]. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, MDCCCCV.
Duodecimo, light blue boards, paper label, uncut; note, facsimile, note, portrait (Lear) title, contents, preface, pp. 103 including index.
500 copies from type.
Collated from late edition.
1906Memories of President Lincoln and other Lyrics of the War. By Walt Whitman [device]. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, MDCCCCVI.
16mo, grey boards, paper labels, uncut; half-title, title, contents, foreword, pp. (43).
950 copies from type.
1906Memories of President Lincoln, and other Lyrics of the War. By Walt Whitman [device]. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, MDCCCCVI.
Duodecimo, boards, paper label, uncut; half-title, title, contents, foreword by Horace Traubel and T. B. M., note by John Burroughs, pp. 45.
1906Walt Whitman. A Little Book of Nature Thoughts. Selected by Anne Montgomerie Traubel [device]. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, MDCCCCVI.
Narrow 16mo, blue wrappers, uncut; half-title, title, preface, pp. 82, index.
1907The Wisdom of Walt Whitman. Selected and Edited, with Introduction by Laurens Maynard. New York: Brentano's Fifth Avenue, MCMVII.
24mo, limp morocco; half-title, title, contents, introduction, pp. 154; index, pp. 155-165.
1909Leaves of Grass. By Walt Whitman. London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd. MCMIX.
Duodecimo, cloth or leather, pp. 468.
The Peoples Library.
1912Memories of President Lincoln. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd; O Captain! My Captain; Hush'd be the Camps To-Day; This Dust was once the Man [device]. Portland, Maine: Published by Thomas B. Mosher at XLV Exchange Street, MDCCCCXII.
Imperial octavo, grey boards, uncut; part of Lincoln, title, Lincoln's Gettysburg address, note by William Marion Reedy, contents, half-title, foreword by Horace Traubel and T. B. M., half-title, pp. 13, printed on front of each page, bibliographical notes, (16) note.
300 copies on hand made paper.
50 copies of Japanese vellum.
1912Leaves of Grass (1), and Democratic Vistas. By Walt Whitman. London: Published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., and in New York by E. P. Dutton & Co.
Duodecimo, cloth and leather, pp. 359.
Everyman's Library; introduction by Horace Traubel.
1912The Rolling Earth. Outdoor Scenes and Thoughts from the writings of Walt Whitman. Compiled by Waldo R. Browne, with an Introduction by John Burroughs [quotation]. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1912.
16 mo, cloth; half-title, portrait, title, dedication, pp. (223).
1913Poems from Leaves of Grass. By Walt Whitman. The colored illustrations by Margaret C. Cook. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1913.
Octavo, cloth, gilt, uncut; half-title, title, contents, list of illustrations, pp. 260.
Twenty-four colored plates mounted on oxford brown paper.
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