There is also a limp cloth issue which is quite common, that was
issued to be sold at the exhibition.
The poem was later published in the Transactions of the American
Institute, 1871-72. Albany, 1872.
1872
Leaves of Grass. Washington, D. C., 1872.
Second issue of the fifth edition.
Duodecimo, green cloth, uncut; title, contents, vi, pp. 384.
Passage to India, pp. 120. Printed from the plates of the
Washington, 1871 editions of Leaves of Grass and Passage to
India.
Later issues have After All, Not to Create Only, pp. 14 bound
in.
1872
Leaves of Grass. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And Other Poems.
Washington, D. C., 1872.
Duodecimo, green cloth, uncut; title, contents, preface, x; One
Song, America, Before I Go, one page; Souvenirs of Democracy,
facsimile signature, one page; pp. 14; Virginia--The West; By
Broad Potomac's Shore, one page, unnumbered; eight pages
advertisements.
1875
Memoranda During the War. By Walt Whitman. Author's Publication. Camden,
New Jersey, 1875-76.
Octavo, maroon cloth, title stamped in gold on cover; page,
"Remembrance Copy;" portrait, title, pp. 68, advertisement.
1876
Leaves of Grass. [Nine-line poem beginning "Come, said my soul," signed
Walt Whitman in the Author's autograph.] Author's Edition, with
Portraits from Life. Camden, New Jersey, 1876.
Sixth edition.
Octavo, half-calf, leather label, title, contents, vi; pp. 384,
advertisement. Portrait same as in the first edition facing page
29; woodcut portrait by W. J. Linton facing page 285.
1876
Leaves of Grass. [Nine-line poem in author's holograph, signed Walt
Whitman.] Author's Edition. With Portraits and Intercallations. Camden,
New Jersey, 1876.
Octavo, half calf, leather label, uncut. The same in every
detail except for a new title. At the end of the table of
contents a slip is tipped in:
Intercallations Page
As in a Swoon 207
The Beauty of the Ship 247
When the Full-Grown Poet Came 359
After an Interval 369
On each page indicated will be found a poem, tipped in.
There is a variation in the intercallations: a few contain "A
Death Sonnet for Custer."
1876
Two Rivulets including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage
to India. Author's Edition. Camden, New Jersey, 1876.
Octavo, half-calf, leather label; portrait, "Photo'd from life,
Sept., '72, Brooklyn, N. Y., by G. F. Pearsall, Fulton St."
signed "Walt Whitman, born May 31, 1819"; title, pp. 32, blank
leaf; Democratic Vistas, pp. 84; blank page; Centennial Songs,
1876, pp. 1-18; blank page; As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,
preface, pp. x, pp. 14, blank page; Passage to India, pp. 120;
blank page, advertisement.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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