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More imagesPublished by Camden, New Jersey: Author's Edition., 1882
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United KingdomLUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA)
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Add to basketPublisher's original green cloth over bevelled boards, with titles in gilt to the spine. Signed by the author. Yellow endpapers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With two, tissue guarded engraved portraits of the author, facing page 28 and 296. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and bumping to th…e spine tips and corners. The cloth is clean, with just a few light marks. The contents, with the ownership inscription of 'Helen Webb' dated '1883' to the front endpaper, and a little spotting to the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. An attractive example, in entirely original condition. Signed by Walt Whitman in black ink on the title page. A scarce and desirable edition of Whitman's radically original and continuously evolving collection of free verse poetry celebrating the beauty of nature, the human body, and the shared experience of humanity through the perspective of the common individual. First self-published by Walt Whitman in 1855, the original edition contained just twelve poems. Over the next four decades, Whitman continually revised, expanded, and rearranged the collection, transforming it into his life's work. By the end of this process, Leaves of Grass comprised more than 400 poems, making it one of the most ambitious and enduring evolving literary projects in American literature. Rather than viewing each revision as a correction, Whitman regarded every new edition as a new stage in the book's life. As both his own experiences and America itself changed, 'Leaves of Grass' evolved alongside them, continually incorporating new poems, ideas, and perspectives. Twenty-six years after the publication of the first edition, the Boston publisher James R. Osgood & Co. invited Whitman to produce a sixth edition. He accepted on the condition that it would include his preferred arrangement of the poems, together with several additions, including the so-called "sexuality odes" that had previously provoked controversy. Shortly after publication, the Massachusetts District Attorney, Oliver Stevens, declared the work obscene and demanded that Osgood suspend its publication. Given the choice of removing the disputed passages or withdrawing the book, Whitman refused to make any alterations. As a result, his contract with the publisher was terminated, publication ceased, and the unbound sheets, printing plates, dies, and a payment of $100 were returned to him. Whitman immediately issued his own "Author's Edition", distinguished by a newly designed title page, and had a small number of copies bound for private distribution, as here. "This is a scarce and almost unknown issue; it is doubtful if more than one hundred copies were printed. The text and type is the same as that used in the Boston edition, the title page only being different. All copies were autographed, and it is probable that Whitman had these made for a few friends while waiting for the first Philadelphia edition" (Wells and Goldsmith, p.25). Later in 1882, Whitman reached an agreement with the Philadelphia publisher Rees Welsh to issue a new edition. By December, nearly 5,000 copies had been sold. Ironically, the attempted suppression of Leaves of Grass proved to be one of its greatest advertisements. Newspapers across the United States widely reported the ban, generating intense public interest and a dramatic increase in demand (Myerson A7.2.c3). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Printed by Ferguson Bros. and Co, Philadelphia, 1889
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketOriginal wrap-around leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. SCARCE 70TH BIRTHDAY EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 300 COPIES SIGNED BY WHITMAN. THE VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE WITH ORIGINAL LEATHER WRAP-AROUND BAND. The collector of Walt Whitman is hard pressed to choose which edition of Leaves of Grass best represents the poet's vision of… his works. After all, Whitman famously attended each of the printings of his poems like a parent in the delivery room during the birth of each child. Is one child more valuable than the next? As with each delivery, each printing of Leaves of Grass contained its own set of complications and circumstances, be it lack of funds, paper shortages, war, or other issues. From early on, however, Whitman had a vision for Leaves of Grass, a vision that he needed to compromise time and again to accommodate the reality of his publishing circumstances. It was not until his 70th birthday edition in 1889 that the stars aligned and Whitman was finally able to print Leaves of Grass as he had always wanted an edition that embodied his vision of the book. Whitman saw himself as a pastor creating a New Bible and in this special birthday edition he took this vision quite literally, as he presented Leaves of Grass as one would present a Bible, using "Oxford Bible Paper," and a Biblical black leather cover with a wraparound tongue flap and pocket in the back. Only 300 copies were printed, but fairly soon into the printing, Whitman was persuaded by his close friend Dr. Richard Bucke to stop binding copies with the wraparound flap, so far fewer than the original 300 contain this unique aspect of his vision. Unlike Whitman's earlier editions full of sometimes playful book art and fonts, the 1889 edition insists it is to be taken very seriously, perhaps as seriously as one might take the Bible. The text, of course, includes the same radicalism as the earlier editions, but this time his radicalism is not to be interpreted as whimsy, but as high seriousness, even scripture. Yet, despite the solemnity of the presentation of this edition, Whitman reminds us that this Biblical vision is his very precious child as he introduces the edition with the words: "the volume is more A PERSON than a book. And for testimony to all, (and good measure,) I here with pen and ink append my name" and then signed each copy in ink, "Walt Whitman". Philadelphia: Printed by Ferguson Bros. and Co. for the Author. Small octavo (approx. 124x180 mm), original publisher's morocco with wraparound band and rear pocket; custom box. Complete with portrait frontispiece. Some scuffing to leather, small separation at joint at base of spine. Due to its somewhat fragile design, this edition is usually found in dreadful condition. This copy is by far the nicest we've ever seen. A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES OF LEAVES OF GRASS.
More imagesPublished by Detroit Public Library, Detroit, 1955
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United KingdomBurwood Books
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Large 8vo.pp. 130. Signed presentation copy: "To Stephen Spender on the occasion of his visit to Detroit & his interest in Walt Whitman. With my best wishes, Charles Feinberg. April 20th, 1955." Original publisher's wraps in ivory, lettered black and green with decorative fl…ourishes. Exhibition Catalogue: prepared by Mrs Francis J Brewer, Curator of Rare Books, Detroit Public Library. Exhibition held at the Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan, 1955. Frontispiece photograph of a manuscript page of the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass.' Three hundred and eighty-seven exhibition items listed. Near very good. Sound. Very slight wear & slight marking of covers. Signedes.
More imagesPublished by The Limited Editions Club at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, New York, 1929
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- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.Fahrenheit's Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Near Very Good. First Edition Thus, Limited, Signed. First edition thus, slipcased hardcover, signed by the designer, Frederic Warde, and marked as no. 364/1500 on the colophon. The book has very slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a previous owner's name penned to the head of the…front pastedown, a tiny spot to the head of the front fly leaf, and some foxing starting to the rear endsheets. Overall, this is a solid, sharp, Very Good+ copy in a Near Very Good plain paper jacket, which has bumps with short creased tears and small losses to the spine ends and corners, light sunning with some smudging to the spine, and a touch of rubbing to the covers. The jacket is in Mylar and the book is housed in a Near Very Good slipcase, which has bumps with some wear to the paper at the corners, rubbing with smudging to the panels, sunning to the upper and rear panels with toning along the seams, and light soiling and smudges to the rear panel. Additional images are available by request.
More imagesPublished by Ferguson Bros. & Co, 1889
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: PEN ULTIMATE RARE BOOKS, Pine Plains, NY, U.S.A.PEN ULTIMATE RARE BOOKS
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED by Walt Whitman in commemoration of his 70th birthday. Intended for Whitman's private distribution and Banned by American bookshops and libraries for its explicit sexual imagery. One of only 300 copies of Whitman's 70 birthday edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman s literary mas…terpiece, "America's second Declaration of Independence" (PMM, 342). With six portraits of Whitman, including the famous original mounted frontispiece photograph with a butterfly resting on his finger. Whitman s explanatory note is printed on the title page: "Today, after finishing my 70th year, the fancy comes for celebrating it by a special complete, final utterance, in one handy volume of L. of G. with their Annex, and Backward Glance-and for stamping and sprinkling all with portraits and facial photos, such as they actually were, taken from life, different stages. Doubtless, anyhow, the volume is more a Person than a book. And for testimony to all (and good measure) I here with pen and ink append my name." Text and frontispiece fine, Original pebble-grained black leather over flexible boards and closing clasp, upper board lettered in gilt and with facsimile of Whitman's signature in gilt, edges gilt, marbled endpapers; front free endpaper has a tiny split from hinge, rubbing to extremities and joints, chipped at head and tail of spine. Filipino poet José García Villa's inscription to pastedown Horace Traubel (gift inscription to C.P. Farrell on initial blank) In a rubbed green cloth slipcase, 7.5" x 5". A desirable copy of a Whitman rarity. Book #v1260. $18,500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science. Do please inquire. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesWalt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (association copy)
Whitman, Walt; Malcolm Cowley (editor); Wallace Stegner (signed)
Published by Viking, NY, 1959
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. First thus. Wallace Stegner's copy, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. One of 475 copies "specially bound as a Christmas remembrance for friends of The Viking Press." Uncommon as such, and a seemingly uncommon book in the trade edition as well. With a long introduction by editor…Malcolm Cowley and Whitman's own original introduction following. Likely this copy was a gift from or via Malcolm Cowley who was a friend and for a time a colleague recruited by Stegner to the creative writing program at Stanford University. In turn this book was a gift from Stegner to writer and poet John Danieland comes from Daniel's library. John Daniel is afour-time recipient of the Oregon Book Awards among other honors. He started his career as a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and afterward lived in a cottage on Stegner's property in Los Altos Hills for five years (during the years in whichCrossing to Safetywas written). He's written movingly about Stegner in several essays collected in his booksThe Trail HomeandThe Far Corner. Octavo in green cloth with a black buckram spine bordered by a narrow gilt band. In a paper slipcase with a large title plate. A very near fine book with a touch of rubbing to corners. The slipcase is very good with rubbing and some wear to corners; on its rear face, there is some sunning at top and a one-inch damp stain at lower left edge.
Published by Associated American Artists, New York, 1966
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Interpreted with seven original color engravings by Terry Haass. Limited to 150 copies, signed by Haass on the limitation page and each engraving. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Brown cloth folding portfolio, some fading at the spine. Plain printed wraps with loose pages as issued. This work…features Whitman's "Song of Myself," "A Prairie Sunset," "Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here," and "A Clear Midnight.". Signed.
More imagesPublished by Various 1855-1917, 1855
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United KingdomRainford & Parris Books - PBFA
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: . The collection is that of Mr George Humphreys, one of a group of friends who met in Bolton, UK, and called themselves "The College". Their meetings soon became dominated by their interest in Walt Whitman, which later turned into regular correspondence with WW and his orbit of friends, an…d culminated in two visits by two members of the group to meet WW (their subsequent signed books to GH forming part of the collection). The collection also includes a first centennial edition of Rivulets, complete with signed photograph as called for, a signed photograph of WW, a "Deathbed Edition" of Leaves of Grass and some very scarce books relating to WW. (8 books + photo) 1. WHITMAN, Walt Signed photograph of himself, pencil date 1887, with a distinctive, large signature by Whitman below his image. Photo by "F. Gute Kunst Philadelphia" main image measures 9.5 x 14cms. 2. WHITMAN, Walt. Two Rivulets. Camden, Centennial edition (first edition, second printing), 1876 one of 600 copies. The albumen photograph portrait of Whitman in the front is signed and dated by the author. Additionally, tipped in, is a package label to previous owner (George Humphreys care of Dr Johnston), which bears the author's signature. The label appears to have been cut out of an envelope from the publisher, the verso having the printed address of David McKay, Publisher and Bookseller together with the handwritten address of Walt Whitman and a postal stamp of 2(?) Sept '91 presumably the envelope was opened up so that it could be used as a label for onward shipping for the book, as there are glue spots where it has been attached. The stamp mark on the addressed label side is dated Oct 5 '91). This actual event was noted by J W Wallace (in Visits to Walt Whitman, George Allen & Unwin, 1917 p.192) who was visiting Whitman during 1891, until November of that year: 'He had had "a letter from Dr Johnston yesterday, but no special news in it: all seemed to be moving along as usual." I told him that I had also received a letter from Johnston, and that George Humphreys had been very much pleased with a copy of the centennial edition in two volumes of "Leaves of Grass," etc., which W had sent him. W. smiled kindly, saying: Likes it, eh?' Later in the book (p.199) Wallace writes: 'W. "I had a letter from Johnstone yesterday, and one from George Humphreys, saying that he had got his book and thanking me ' The last section of the book includes extracts from the letters of Horace Traubel (Wallace writes: 'The full story of Whitman's last illness will be published in due course by Horace Traubel. A short installment of it appeared in 1893 in a volume edited by Whitman's literary executors and entitled "In Re Walt Whitman." This account consists of extracts from letters which Traubel wrote to us daily (which we forwarded for circulation amongst Whitman's chief friends in Britain, etc,), and from his letters to Dr Bucke.' One such entry (p.236) reads 'Feb. 12th "I have just had a talk with W., but he was so weak, after passing a bad day, that he was not able to say much or to manifest any great interest. I told him I would go into the next room and send a line to you, whereat he advised me to include his love to you all, with special remembrances to George Humphreys and Fred Wilde and particular affectionateness to J.W.W. He loves you all and his sweet words of you should exalt you for ever.' 3. JOHNSTON, M.D., John Notes Of a Visit To Walt Whitman, Etc. In July, 1890 Printed for Private Circulation / T. Brimelow & Co, 1890 Inscribed on front cover: "George Humphreys /with kindest regards from his friend / the author". Laid in a single page reprint from "Bolton Journal & Guardian", Oct. 8th 1915 concerning Dr J Jonhson taking up war service. Bound in with: 4. WHITMAN, Walt Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman; Preface to the Original Edition, 1855. Published by Trubner & Co., 1881. Only 500 copies were issued in printed wrappers. Inscribed on front cover: "George.
More imagesPublished by Boston Thayer and Eldridge -1861, 1860
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- First Edition
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Add to basketThird edition, first printing; 8vo (20 x 14 cm); portrait frontispiece (Myerson Form 1 signed 'Schoff' in plate on irregularly shaped light-brown background), imprints of The Boston Stereotype Foundry and George C. Rand & Avery on copyright page, library stamp to contents page header, old library pocket to rear pastedown; publis…her's dark reddish orange cloth (Myerson type D, BAL C), upper and lower panels blindstamped, spine blindstamped and lettered in gilt, cloth faded, joints and extremities rubbed, signatures a little loose but holding, internally browned with occasional spotting, a well-thumbed ex-library copy; iv, 5-456pp. The scarce first trade edition of Walt Whitman's seminal collection of poems on the philosophy of life, Leaves of Grass. Whitman continued to revise and add to the text until his death in 1892. This, the first printing of the third edition, marks the greatest single leap in the evolution of the text, with more than 100 poems added to the original work. It includes the first appearance of the 'Calamus' sequence, considered by many to be Whitman's clearest expression in print of his views on homoerotic love. 'The edition is Whitman's most famous after the first and contains some of his greatest poems, including (using final titles) "Starting from Paumanok" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." The first of these is a more literal rendering of the spiritual autobiography in "Song of Myself" (paumanok is the American Indian term for "fish-shaped," referring to Long Island). The second was originally titled "A Child's Reminiscence" in the volume (it had yet another title in an 1859 magazine publication) because it is a meditation on lost innocence as it is realized at midlife ("A man, yet by these tears a little boy again"). The poet comes to realize that the freedom celebrated in his first edition and in "Song of Myself" is not altogether consistent with a way of coping with life's essential imperfection and that the duty of the poet is thus to sing of Love and Death, the common denominators of such imperfection. In a real sense, this poem about a man in crisis at midlife also suggests the crisis of poetry, that is, the power of its romantic illusions to overcome completely the fear of death' (ANB). Myerson A2.3.a1; BAL 21397; Wells pp.7-9.
Published by James R. Osgood and Company 1881-82, Boston, 1881
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.Raptis Rare Books
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Add to basketThe "suppressed Boston edition" (seventh edition overall) of the most important volume in American poetry, one of 1,010 copies printed. Octavo, original publisher's mustard cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded engraved portrait of the author by Hollyer after the daguerreotype by Gabriel… Harrison opposite page 29. BAL 21418. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dr. C H Shivers from the author." The recipient, Dr. C.H. Shivers was a Haddonfield, New Jersey-based physician, memberÂofÂthe New Jersey Medical Society for Camden County and friend and dinner companionÂofÂWhitman's (according to The Collected WritingsÂofÂWalt Whitman, Vol. 4, CorrespondenceÂof Walt Whitman, 1989). The Suppressed Edition was the earliest edition to haveÂLeavesÂofÂGrassÂin what is considered the book's final form. The suppressed edition's electroplates were used in all later editions, including the so-called "Death Bed Edition."Â"On March 1, 1882, Oliver Stevens, district attorney for the CommonwealthÂofÂMassachusetts, suggested to James R. Osgood & Co., that this edition should be withdrawn from publication becauseÂofÂits obscene nature. After some discussion between Whitman, the publishers and the attorney general about alterations and excisions to remedy the situation, Whitman decided in early April against making the necessary changes. James R. Osgood & Co., then decided to cease acting as publisher and on May 17, 1882, reached an agreement with Whitman whereby Whitman received $100, 225 copies, more or less, in sheets, and the plates and dies, in return for all claims for royalties and cancelling the contract. On May 19 Whitman wrote to the Boston binder, S.H. Sanborn, requesting him to send the 225 setsÂofÂsheets to James ArnoldÂofÂPhiladelphia, and to the Boston printers, Rand & Avery, requesting them to prepare 225 copiesÂofÂa new title leaf. Whitman sent out the first copiesÂof this this issue on June 11, 1882." (BAL, Vol. 9, p. 43). In very good condition. Exceptionally rare signed by Whitman. âNo one knows for certain how Whitman raised the money to pay for the first Leaves of Grass⦠Whitman had taken his manuscript to a couple of friends, the brothers James and Thomas Rome, who had a printing shop at the corner of Fulton and Cranberry Streets. Possibly the author had tried a commercial publisher first and had the book rejected. If so, he kept quiet about it. The Romes did print a few books but specialized in the printing of legal documents. Whitman, a proud and skilled printer, moved in on them to oversee the production of Leaves. They allowed him to set type himself whenever he felt like it. Ten pages or so were his own work. He had a routine and a special chair over in the corner⦠The engraved portrait facing the title page (showed) a person who looked as if he might be the printer rather than the author. He was unnamed⦠Before a reader reached the dozen untitled poems there stood the barrier of the preface, an off-putting obstacle of ten pages of weirdly punctuated prose in close print, set in double columns. The poems themselves were in more readable type, laid across a wide format to accommodate the strangely long and irregular lines. The inking was spotty and must have given Whitman some qualms, but he had no money to spare for anything better⦠The centerpiece of his strange book, in the ârough and ragged thicket of its pages,â was a sustained poem of fifty-two sections called âSong of Myself⦠If Emerson is, in John Deweyâs words, the philosopher of democracy, then Whitman is indisputably its poet. In Whitman we have a democrat who set out to imagine the life of the average man in average circumstances changed into something grand and heroic⦠He claimed that he had never been given a proper hearing, and spent his whole life trying to publish himself. A hundred years after his death, the strange fate of his book is known. He said often enough that it had been a financial failure, signed it and himself over to posterity, a âcandidate for the future⦠There has never been a more remarkable poemâ (Callow, From Noon to Starry Night). âAlways the champion of the common man, Whitman is both the poet and the prophet of democracy⦠In a sense, it is Americaâs second Declaration of Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectualâ (PMM 340). The most important and influential volume of poetry written in America, Whitmanâs literary masterpiece, Leaves of Grass is âone of the most magnificent fabrications of modern times⦠he never surrendered⦠his vision of himself as one who might go forth among the American people and astonish themâ¦â (DAB). The first edition of Leaves of Grass was a failure with the public, but upon receiving a copy, Emerson responded with his famous letter. âI find it [Leaves of Grass] the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed⦠I greet you at the beginning of a great career.â.
More imagesLeaves of Grass: In two volumes (Signed by illustrator)
Walt Whitman (author); Edward Weston (photographs); Mark Van Doren (introduction)
Published by The Limited Editions Club, Inc., New York, 1942
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- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Limited Editions Club, Inc., New York, 1942. First edition thus. First printing thus. Two volumes in slipcase. Near-fine copies in a near-fine slipcase. A clean copy, with small, neat bookseller plate on lower corner of front pastedowns of both volumes. Note: Wear to e…xtremities of both copies and slipcase (as pictured). Slight must odor. This copy is #1004, of just 1500, of the limited edition signed by Weston, the photographer, on the colophon of Volume II (as pictured). A beautiful, rare copy. Signed by Illustrator(s).
More imagesPublished by Random House, New York, 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Seller: Downtown Books & News, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.Downtown Books & News
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First edition thus, limited. Folio (15.5"x12"). 25pp. Typographic paper-covered boards. Cold pressed paper, deckle edges. Soiled, foxed, lightly scuffed covers. Sun-darkened left margin of upper cover. Soiled topedge of textblock. Corners rubbed with boards exposed. Foxed endpapers & last blank…leaves, pages toned. 3-color linoleum cuts, with tissue. Designed & illustrated by Vojt?ch Preissig. Signed by Preissig & numbered 109 of 390 copies to colophon. Number 1 from the New Fine Book Series. Vojt?ch Preissig (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by The Grabhorn Press, 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.Moe's Books
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Add to basketHard cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Number 79 of only 400 such copies produced, comprising all the poems written by Walt Whitman following the arrangement of the edition of 1891-92. Folio, half red morocco over oak boards lettered in black on spine. Woodcuts by Valenti Angelo throughout, and signed by him. Often considered t…he finest production of the Grabhorn Press. Some rubbing and superficial cracking on leather spine, along with a few light spots and scuffs. Outside edges of pages discolored from age, clean and unmarked throughout inside.
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Add to basketBoston: Thayer and Eldridge. 1860. 8vo. Original rust-coloured vertical wavy-grain cloth with blind-stamped boards, bevelled edges, spine with gilt lettering and design of a butterfly; pp. [vi], 456, [2], frontispiece engraving of Whitman (signed 'Schoff'), engraved tailpieces to pp. iv and 456 of a butterfly perched on a finger…; slightly cocked, minor soiling to pastedowns, otherwise a very good copy. Extremely rare first issue of the third edition, the first edition published by someone other than the poet himself, including the first publication of the major poems 'A Word Out of the Sea', retitled 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' in later editions, and 'I Hear America Singing'.This edition of Whitman's work is significantly expanded from the two self-published pamphlets of 1855 and 1856, which contained twelve and thirty-three poems respectively. The success of the second edition persuaded Thayer and Eldridge to take the work on but, in a stroke of the kind of luck that dogged Whitman's professional career, the company went bust shortly after publication and could barely pay him $250. 'The author went to Boston to superintend the printing and binding. The publishers failed during the period of financial depression at the beginning of the Civil War and the plates were sold at auction to R. Worthington, who surreptitiously used them for the original imprint. There are, for this reason, four or more editions bearing the original Thayer and Eldridge imprint. The first issue is distinguished by the engraved portrait which is on an irregular tinted background and by the gilt embossed butterfly on the backbone of the binding [.] Copies of the first issue with the tinted portrait are extremely scarce' (Shay).The present edition is the first to justify Whitman's description of the work as America's 'New Bible'. It had been expanded to include 146 poems, the largest single jump in the work's life. Among the poems included here for the first time are the 'Calamus' cluster, the most overtly homoerotic section, and 'Enfans d'Adam', which shocked contemporary readers with its sexualised reading of the Adam and Eve myth. Despite the controversy and outrage that greeted Whitman's work upon its first publication - one reviewer called it a 'mass of stupid filth' (The Criterion, 10 November 1855) - it has come to be considered a central work of American poetry, radical in form, epic in its treatment of democracy, nature and love, and courageous in its sexual frankness. This is Myerson's Binding C, with a globe surrounded by clouds to the front board and a sun behind mountains to the rear; our frontispiece portrait of Whitman is in the first state, with the irregularly coloured background.BAL 21397; Myerson A.2.3a (with the frontispiece in the first state); Shay, p. 19; Wells & Goldsmith, pp. 7-8; cf PMM 340.
More imagesPublished by np, Camden, NJ, 1888
- First Edition
- Signed
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First edition. WHITMAN AS A BOOKSELLER, TRYING TO SELL LEAVES OF GRASS. In this letter, Whitman has written to New York publishers Dick & Fitzgerald mentioning Leaves of Grass. He offers the book to them at a 33% discount and signs the letter with his full signature "Walt Whitman". Framed alongside the letter is… the famous photo of Whitman touching the (prop) butterfly from the first edition of Whitman's "Specimen Days & Collect". The letter, dated Feb 18, 1888 from his 328 Mickle Street address (Camden, New Jersey) reads in full: "After some delay I have succeeded in getting you a two Vol. set (in perfect order half leather binding) those portraits from life, of Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets ed'n 1876 - Shall I send the vols to you? The price is $6.66 (+10 - one-third off). [signed] Walt Whitman" Matted and framed with UV filtered glass with opening on back to show the address side of post card. Framed alongside Whitman's letter is the photograph of Whitman from Specimen Days. Dimensions - Frame: 38.1cm x 30.5cm (15in x 12in), letter: 13.3cm x 7.6cm (5.25in x 3in), Whitman print: 9.5cm x 14.6cm (3.75in x 5.75in). Fine condition with signature strong and bold. Signed.
More imagesPublished by Ferguson Bros. & Co, Philadelphia, 1889
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Signed Limited First Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF WHITMAN'S WORK; A REMARKABLE COPY FROM WHITMAN'S PERSONAL LIBRARY. On this Edition: "Whitman never lost his passion for joining disparate parts into a whole: it was the basis of his politics, his philosophy, and his bookmakin…g. He wrote to one acquaintance in 1886 that 'I think of. bringing out a complete budget of all my writing in one book.'. Horace Traubel was again involved in getting this big book out, and he and Whitman had endless discussions about all aspects of its production." Whitman was worried about his failing health and terrified that he would die before his "big book" was published. "At one point the poet told Traubel, 'I am in a hurry-in a hurry: I want to see the book in plates: then I can die satisfied. We will attend to the presswork and binding when we come to it. The main thing is the plates-the plates. Horace, I am on the verge of a final collapse: I look on the future-even tomorrow, next day-with a feeling of the greatest uncertainty. I am anything but secure: let us make the book secure.' . Whitman was immersed in every aspect of his bookmaking" and was very pleased with the result, for upon receiving the first copies he declared to Traubel, "it's better-far, far better-than the best I looked for." (All quotations from Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman). Whitman's "big book"- what he thought of as the final monument to his career - was published in only 600 copies "for the author's own use", with each copy signed on the title page. This copy is the first issue - without the limitation number added by hand by Horace Traubel. (All copies that were distributed before Feb. 14, 1889 were unnumbered.) In Myerson's binding A. On this copy - from Whitman's own personal library: With presentation inscription on the front free endpaper fromThomas Biggs Harned: "To John Lewis Cochran, Esq., with the compliments of Thomas B. Harned, June 11, 1897 / This book is one of a few copies of this edition found among the author's effects after his death and it came into the hands of his literary executors. T.B. Harned." "One of Whitman's three literary executors, Thomas Biggs Harned [1851-1921] was a prosperous Philadelphia lawyer and a brother-in-law of Horace Traubel. His twenty-year acquaintance with Whitman involved nearly daily contact during the poet's final years. Harned's well-furnished Camden home was a social center where Whitman dined and drank richly, amused Harned's three children, and met prominent religious and political men. Harned funded the construction of Whitman's mausoleum and co-arranged his funeral, at which he participated as speaker and pallbearer. Later, Harned wrote the introduction to the definitive ten-volume Camden Edition of Whitman's works (1902)." (The Walt Whitman Archive). The "Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman" now resides in the Library of Congress. The recipient, John Lewis Cochran (1857-1923), was a Philadelphia businessman who later moved to Chicago and became a prominent real estate developer. Laid in are prints of four photographs (possibly unique prints) of Whitman's mausoleum in Camden, NJ (funded by Harned). It appears that the man with the long beard in three of the photographs is Richard Maurice Bucke (along with Traubel and Harned, Whitman's literary executor) and that the shorter man with the mustache is Harned. (The third man in one of the photos remains unidentified.) Also with a beautiful phototype portrait of Whitman by the Philadelphia photographer Frederick Gutekunst and a broadside printing of "An impromptu criticism on the 900 page Volume 'the Complete Peoms and Prose of Walt Whitman'" by Bucke laid-in. Book complete with title page portrait (Linton engraving after G.C. Potter photograph) and engraved portrait of Whitman as a young man (used as frontispiece in the 1855 Leaves of Grass) bound in at page 28, before Leaves of Grass. Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855.1888. Authenticated and Personal Book (handled by W.W.) Portraits from Life. Autograph. Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co., 1888-89. Large octavo, publisher's three-quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards with original paper label (Myerson's Binding A). In superb custom box by Natasha Herman of Redbone Bindery matching original binding. Text block and hinges (nearly invisibly) stabilized internally, binding with light edgewear and a few chips to rare original label. A MAGNIFICENT SIGNED COPY FROM WHITMAN'S OWN LIBRARY OF HIS "BIG BOOK"; A MONUMENT OF HIS LIFE'S WORK. Signed.
More imagesPublished by Aventine Press, New York, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. dj. Large octavo, 588 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is illustrated green and tan with white lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering. Rubbing to board edges. Chipping and bumping to dust jacket edges. Open tear to dust jacket spine. Open and closed tearing to…top edge of dust jacket. Mild soiling and age toning to dust jacket. Age toning to textblock. Light pencil markings throughout. Top edge of textblock sprayed green. Shelved Poetry. 1414707. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Publisher's Edition, First Printing.
More imagesPublished by Rees Welsh & Co, Philadelphia, 1882
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Type Punch Matrix
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Add to basketCondition: Very good. Printer Roger Sherman's copy of the seventh ("definitive") edition of Whitman's recently censored American epic - with Sherman's lengthy and highly critical note to a rear blank. In 1881, Boston-based publisher James R. Osgood issued what is now called "the definitive edition of [Whitman's] poems" (Renner).… It was the first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS distributed by a major publisher - and it quickly came to the attention of the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Vice. "Whitman's book sold more than 1,500 copies before the publisher withdrew it after a district attorney objected to the sexual content and threatened to prosecute the company for selling obscene literature. The poet soon arranged to resume printing with Philadelphia publishers [.] Rees Welsh [.] Spurred by publicity, Philadelphia sales eventually surpassed 6,000 copies" (Renner). It is clear, however, that even the printer contracted by Rees Welsh had his own reservations about the merits of LEAVES - expressed at length in the notes at the rear of this copy. Sherman was one of three principals in Sherman & Co., the printing house responsible for this issue. He criticizes not only Whitman's poetic form ("There is nothing in it which has any of the elements of poetry. There are neither noble thoughts, fine language, imagination, versification, or rythm [sic]"), but also the same subjects that got the book "banned in Boston": "The book is wholly course [sic], unpleasant, and objectless [.] Very little can be gained for mankind by dictating their thoughts to this grosser part of their nature for the purpose of stimulating it to greater activity. If it is necessary to teach men and women of the age that they should pay more attention to breeding their kind, this is for physicians, philosophers and sociologists. It is not for poets. There are many pleasurable and useful physical operations, but it is impracticable to write poetry about them. To do so will disgust us with both." A remarkable copy, directly addressing the contemporary controversies surrounding this foundational work of American poetry. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original mustard-brown full cloth with gilt titles. Patterned endpapers. [2], 382, [4] pages. Faint darkening to spine. Bit of starting at front hinge. Some foxing to endpapers, edges of textblock. Minor shelfwear to extremities. Bit of bubbling to cloth of rear board. Overall, sound. Provenance: Printer Roger Sherman's copy, with his penciled ownership signature and date (Aug. 1882) to front free endpaper, and his full-page penned inscription/note to next-to-last blank (complete transcript available), initial "R.S." at the end.
Published by Camden, NJ, 1876
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Author's Edition. Original marbled boards rebacked and recornered with brown morocco leather reproducing the original spine with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Author's Edition, with two portraits from life. BAL 21412: 600 copies printed with most copies SIGNED by the poet on the title page, as is this one.…LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's celebration of American democracy and individualism, is considered by many to be the quintessential American book of poems. Paper toned as usually the case but not very brittle; remnant of bookplate on front endpaper and old newspaper clipping tipped to the verso of the endpaper; boards rubbed. Near Fine.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Taibundo, Tokyo, Japan, 1966
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery, ROCK HILL, SC, U.S.A.Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Near fine hardcover in very good unclipped dust jacket. One thousand pages, notes, appendices, chronology, index. Prose essences and annotations by William L. Moore, preface by Guy Wilson Allen, calligraphy by Kazuko Okamoto. Half sued…e over maroon cloth boards, beveled upper edges and gilt embossed Japan characters. Dust jacket has minimal wear to outer extremities. The white cardboard slipcase is near fine with mild toning to outer edges and a thumb sized indentation on spine. Kazuko Okamoto (illustrator).
Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, 1929
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. One of 1,500 copies. Signed and numbered by designer Frederic Warde. Introduction by Wells. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge. Black and white photographic frontispiece of Whitman from 1876, by Frank Pearsall, reproduced from original wet-plate negative. Includes a facsimile of… a page in the first edition of "Leaves of Grass," owned and annotated by Whitman. Bounfd in green cloth, with spine stamped in gilt, spine and covers stamped in illustrated green, red, and black. Minor foxing to endpapers. Occasional, infinitesimal foxing to some internal pages. Light wear to cloth at corners, head and heel of spine, through cloth at some points. Signed.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891., Philadelphia, 1891
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Joe Maynard, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.Joe Maynard
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Octavo, portrait frontispiece, 66pp, in publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt, bevelled edges (badly shaken, rear hinge completely broken, front nearly detatched thus cover is about to be detatched from text block, front endpaper and blank detatched, spine ends chipped and torn with l…oss, dampness damage, bookplate removed from front paste-down, a fair copy). Pasted down at rear paste-down is a 4-page handbill "A Poem for Whitman Day" by Walt T. Hawkins, Read at the Bolton celebration, May 31st, 1910. Another Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration 4-page handbill laid'in "Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration. May, 1907." Two separate gift inscriptions dated 1910 and 1956, as well as an ownership signature at ffep. Sold AS IS.
More imagesPublished by david mckay, philadelphia, 1900
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.leaves
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Add to basketlater printing, 1900. includes two fold-out facsimiles of handwritten notes for the autobiography. philadelphia: david mckay. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. 567 pages. hardcover. bound in stamped green cloth-covered boards. gilt stamping to front title and stamping to spine. top edge gilt. deckled edged. book condition: notable fading to s…pine. little shelf-wear. both hinges cracked. owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. good.
Published by David McKay, Philadelphia, PA, 1892
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Archer's Used and Rare Books, Kent, OH, U.S.A.Archer's Used and Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 2nd state. First Hardcover edition. This"Death Bed" edition was the last in Whitman's lifetime. Top edge gilt in good condition. Uncommon . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.…Inventory No: 26388.
More imagesPublished by Camden, NJ: [for Walt Whitman], 1876
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Presentation copy of the Author's Edition, signed on the title-page by Whitman, and further inscribed on the front free endpaper, Albert D. Shaw from the author. The 1876 Author's edition, sometimes called the Centennial edition, features two portraits of the poet, young and old, and the author's… signature on the title of some copies. The increasingly cash-strapped Whitman published these himself, binding and printing them in different forms to meet demand. This is the final form, one of 600 copies. In December 1881 he observed that he still had 100-200 copies on hand. Whitman sent Shaw this volume, along with Two Rivulets, on April 9, 1881. In adiiton to signing the title page, he inscribed the book to Shaw. He asked Shaw to send the $10 by postal money order if convenient. Shaw was U.S. Consul in Manchester, England at this time. He later was commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and a U.S. Congressman. A manuscript note on the rear pastedown, presumably in Shaw s hand, identifies two poems of special interest. Shaw s bookplate notes that this is vol. 638 in his library. Myerson A2.5.c2. Two engraved portraits of Whitman. Original half cream leather gilt, morocco spine label. Rebacked preserving spine, spine rubbed, darkened, and soiled. The advertisement leaf mounted at the end notes that this book, as well as Two Rivulets, is available directly from Whitman for $5. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Alfred A. Knopf, 1945
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Add to basketCondition: Good. 1945. First Borzoi Edition. 549 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Dogeared corners through out. Boards have slight shelf wea…r with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges Considerable loss to jacket edges and corners.
More imagesPublished by Philadelphia: David McKay, 1882
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.LaCelle Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1882. First David McKay Edition. Original cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. 382 pages. Very Good. Tight binding; slight cracking to paper at front hinge; light foxing to endpapers else pages clean; contemporary owner's name on title page; some wear at sp…ine ends. ~ A beautiful decorative antique early edition of Leaves of Grass. .
Published by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Inc, New York, 1936
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Introduction and Notes by Emory Holloway and Ralph Adimari. Octavo. 257pp. Illustrated from Old Prints and Photographs. Green cloth stamped in gold on spine and front cover. Endpapers are unevenly tanned, offset from clipping, and from dust jacket flaps, light foxing on…fore-edge, else a very good copy, with text and plates fresh and clean, in very good dust jacket moderately rubbed, and dust soiled, on spine and both panels, light two-inch stain at lower corner of rear panel, else quite bright. An uncommon title in dust jacket. Limited to 750 numbered copies. *Myerson* A32.1.a1.
Published by Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, 1920
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition thus, "Centenary Edition," (second printing, preceded by a 1919 printing). Thick octavo. Pp, 294; 324; 256. Green cloth stamped in gold on spine, Owner's early ink name on front flyleaf ("Royal Peake. Dec. 11th, 1923"). Front hinge a little shaken b…ut hinge intact, binding is tight, a few pages of text have offset tanning from clipping very good in very good dust jacket. The scarce dust jacket has narrow vertical line of tanning, in middle of front panel, few nicks and small edge tears, else fresh and bright. The jacket has considerable printing on front panel, with text printed in green and red; prints a brief quote by Walt Whitman, states "Centenary Edition" in bold red type, and a "Statement of the Literary Executors of Walt Whitman," noting "this is the only genuine and complete text of 'Leaves of Grass'. It is authorized by us under the copyright which we hold. Thomas B. Harned, Horace Traubell." The front panel of the dust jacket also states: "Authorized, Copyright Edition of The Complete Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman. As finally determined by the poet including numerous poems covered by copyright and to be found nowhere except in the authorized edition. Three Volumes in One.". [Myerson C37.1.c; preceded by a 1919 printing(see Myerson C37.1.b)].
Published by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Alcaná Libros, Madrid, M, SpainAlcaná Libros
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Add to baskettapa dura. Condition: Bien. poesia Doubleday, Page & Co. Nueva York. 1924. 19 cm. 725 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con tejuelo, papel ahuesado y tip. bicolor. Idioma ingles. Edicion inclusiva. El editor -Emory Holloway- preparo esta version tomando como base el texto definitivo autorizado por Walt Whitman. Esta fu…e la PRIMERA EDICION ACADEMICA DEL SIGLO XX, que fija los textos del poeta siguiendo la edicion postuma de 1892 -la deathbed edition- con aparato editorial moderno . Cubierta deslucida. (=3544472=) VK143.
