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The Bibliography of Walt Whitman

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A chronological annotated account of the poet's publications and their printings, tracing first issues, variant impressions, plate histories, publisher relationships, pirated editions, and textual changes across successive releases. It documents early fugitive prose and the development of his central poetry collection through multiple editions, noting the author's hands-on involvement with printing, binding, and distribution and the insertion of additional poems in later states. The bibliography records typography and punctuation variants, editional quirks (including tipped-in intercalations and holograph inscriptions), and provides notes on provenance, editorial decisions, and the difficulties of establishing an authoritative edition.

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.

1904

Leaves 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.

1904

Selected 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.

1904

Song 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.

1905

Lafayette 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.

1905

The 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.

1906

Memories 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.

1906

Memories 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.

1906

Walt 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.

1907

The 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.

1909

Leaves 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.

1912

Memories 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.

1912

Leaves 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.

1912

The 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).

1913

Poems 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.

From the text of the 1861 edition.

1913

Criticism, An Essay. By Walt Whitman For Members. Newark: Carteret Book Club: 1913.

Duodecimo, boards, uncut.

Edition limited to one hundred copies.

1914

Leaves of Grass (Selected). By Walt Whitman [quotation from DuBury]. London: Charles H. Kelly.

Duodecimo, crimson cloth; decorated title and frontispiece, pp. 300.

Edited by John Telford. "Special care has been taken in this edition to omit everything that would offend the reader's taste." From the editor's preface.

1915

Memories of President Lincoln. By Walt Whitman [device]. Little Leather Library Corporation, 1915.

Sexto-decimo, limp calf, pp. 127.

n. d.

Sea Drift. By Walt Whitman [device]. London: Jarrold & Sons.

Sexto-decimo, polished levant, uncut. Printed on one side of the page, pp. 52 (104).

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