1888
Democratic Vistas, and other Papers. By Walt Whitman. Published by
arrangement with the author. London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane,
Paternoster Row, 1888.
12 mo, cloth, paper label, uncut; title, contents, preface, pp.
175; advertisements.
1889
Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy and A Backward Glance o'er
Travel'd Roads.
To-day, 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 for good
measure) I here with pen and ink append my name: Walt Whitman.
Portraits from Life; autograph; special edition. (300 copies
only printed--$5 each.)
The "Pocketbook" Leaves of Grass.
Duodecimo, black morocco, with and without flaps, gilt edges.
Portrait, title, contents, pp. 9-382; Sands at Seventy, pp.
383-404; A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, separate
pagination, pp. 1-18. Portraits face pp. 29, 132, 214, 296, 383.
1889
Gems from Walt Whitman. Selected by Elizabeth Porter Gould.
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 23 South Ninth Street, 1889.
Oblong duodecimo, maroon cloth; title, contents, poem to W. W.,
pp. 58.
1891
Good-Bye My Fancy, 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David
McKay, Publisher, 23 South Ninth Street, 1891.
Octavo, green or maroon cloth, uncut, gilt top; title stamped in
gilt on front cover; portrait, title, contents, pp. (5)-66.
1891
Leaves of Grass. Including Sands at Seventy. 1st Annex, Good-Bye my
Fancy; 2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait
from Life. [Nine-line poem, facsimile signature of the author.]
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 23 South Ninth Street, 1891-2.
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.
1892
Complete Prose Works. Walt Whitman. Philadelphia: David McKay,
Publisher, 23 South Ninth Street, 1892.
Octavo, green cloth, uncut, gilt top; title, contents, viii, pp.
522.
1892
Selected 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.
1892
Autobiographia, 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.
1893
_In 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.
[*]1895
The 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.]
1897
Leaves 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.
1897
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.