Whitman, Walt

8vo (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 in.; 193 x 121 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait by S. A. Schoff, calligraphic title; some foxing and browning to frontispiece and title. Publisher's dark reddish orange cloth, spine gilt- and blindstamped, covers blindstamped, yellow endpapers; some soiling, wear to extremities, some repairs to spine.

BAL 21397; Feinberg 274; Myerson A2.3.a; Wells & Goldsmith pp. 7–9.

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Third edition, first printing, with the first state of the portrait. Myerson binding C.

This edition includes 122 new poems, most importantly the "Children of Adam" and "Calamus" groups.