1902
The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman. Issued under the editorial
supervision of his Literary Executors, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B.
Harned, and Horace L. Traubel. With additional bibliographical and
critical material by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph.D. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New
York and London: The Knickerbocker Press.
Ten volumes, various bindings, uncut.
Every scrap of paper and memoranda of Whitman's is here
collected and edited by his literary executors. Leaves of Grass
takes up three volumes; the Prose works seven.
Vol. 1. Introduction. Leaves of Grass.
Vol. 2. Leaves of Grass.
Vol. 3. Leaves of Grass, variorum readings, index.
Vol. 1. Specimen Days.
Vol. 2. Specimen Days; Collect.
Vol. 3. Collect, November Boughs, Good-Bye My Fancy.
Vol. 4. Good-Bye My Fancy, The Wound Dresser.
Vol. 5. Calamus, chapters by T. B. Harned.
Vol. 6. Notes and Fragments.
Vol. 7. Notes and Fragments, The Growth of Leaves of Grass,
Bibliography, by O. L. Triggs.
There are several editions; three of which were published
simultaneously.
Autograph edition, with ms. inserted 32 sets.
Paumanok edition, coloured plates 300 sets.
Camden edition 300 sets.
The Lamb Publishing Company later published from the same
plates:
National edition 1,000 copies.
1904
Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada with Extracts from other of his Diaries
and Literary Note-Books. Edited by William Sloane Kennedy [device].
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, MCMIV.
Octavo, grey boards, parchment back and corners, uncut;
half-title, portrait, title, editor's preface, pp. 73.
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
An American Primer. By Walt Whitman, with Facsimiles of the Original
Manuscript. Edited by Horace Traubel [device]. Boston: Small, Maynard &
Company, MCMIV.
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.