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.
1898
Complete 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.
1898
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.
1898
Selections 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.
1899
Notes 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.
1900
Leaves 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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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