A first edition copy of Walt Whitman's Lafayette in Brooklyn.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>With an introduction by John Burroughs.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;George D. Smith,&nbsp;1905.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes a frontispiece portrait, folding facsimile of manuscript and portrait of Lafayette.</li><li>Copy number 143 of 235 copies on American handmade paper from an edition of 250 copies</li><li>Signed by George D. Smith on the limitation page.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original boards, printed paper label on upper cover and spine.&nbsp;</li></ul> Uncommon publication of Whitman’s recollections on seeing Lafayette at the Brooklyn ferry in 1825, from an undated manuscript: “I was taken up by Lafayette and held a moment — I remember that he pressed my cheek with a kiss as he set me down.”

Lafayette in Brooklyn

A beautiful set of the Camden Edition of Whitman's complete works.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10.</li><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>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 prepared by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph.D.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;G.P. Putnam's Sons,&nbsp;1902.</li><li>Printed at the Knickerbocker Press.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Number 387 of 500 copies, printed on hand-made paper.&nbsp;</li><li>Illustrated with colored frontispiece and plates.</li><li>Publisher's quarter vellum and tips and blue paper boards, spine stamped in gilt, top edges gilt, rest uncut.</li></ul>

The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman

The fourth edition, first issue of Walt Whitman's seminal collection of poems on the philosophy of life, Leaves of Grass.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>New York: Wm. E. Chapin &amp; Co., 1867.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>First appearance in print of Songs Before Parting.</li><li>This issue incorporates three poems composed by Whitman during the Civil War (1861-1865), Drum-Taps, Sequel to Drum-Taps and Songs Before Parting, and marks the first appearance of the latter in print.</li><li>Bound in publisher's half black morocco, red cloth, spine lettered in gilt.</li></ul>

Leaves of Grass

First-edition copy of Whitman's November Boughs, inscribed by Horace Traubel, Whitman's friend and literary executor.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888 [1891].</li><li>Includes portrait in the text but no frontispiece photograph inserted (as issued).</li><li>Inscribed by Traubel on the front blank endleaf, "To Mary &amp; Joseph Tels, February Eighteen Hundred Ninety-Five, Traubel".</li><li>Bound in the publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge tinted red, others uncut and unopened as issued.</li></ul> "These sheets are probably the 400 copies printed in May, 1891. . . . It seems probable . . . that after Whitman's death his executors had these sheets and the remainder of Good-Bye My Fancy bound in uniform, but separate, bindings." (BAL 21430, printing 3).

November Boughs

A limited edition copy of Walt Whitman's Song Of The Open Road, which has been signed by the Aaron Siskind.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>Aaron Siskind (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1990.</li><li>Includes six hand-pulled photogravure plates by Siskind.</li><li>Part of a limited edition of 550 numbered copies signed by Siskind.</li><li>Bound in original black morocco and green linen boards, in cloth slipcase.</li></ul>

Song of the Open Road

FInely bound limited-edition set of the Collector’s Camden edition of Whitman's complete works.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10.</li><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>New York, NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes 40 lithographic illustrations.</li><li>Limited edition of 300 sets signed and numbered by the publisher, this being number 10.</li><li>Bound in blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and blue cloth over boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed.</li></ul>

The Complete Works of Walt Whitman

A first edition, large paper copy of Walt Whitman's November Boughs.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>Philadelphia:&nbsp;David McKay,&nbsp;1888.</li><li>140 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes a portrait of Elias Hicks in text.</li><li>Part of an edition of 400 of the "Third Printing," produced by Whitman for the sole purpose of distribution to his personal friends.&nbsp;</li><li>Inscribed by Whitman's literary executor, friend and biographer, Horace Traubel, to bibliographer Henry Buxton Forman, on front free endpaper, "To H. Buxton Forman with the love of Horace Traubel July 1896. / Special Edition."</li><li>Bound in publisher's dark green cloth-covered beveled boards, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, bookplates of Estelle Doheny and Buxton-Forman to pastedown.</li></ul>

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first issue of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=walt%20whitman&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Walt Whitman</a>'s Leaves of Grass.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>New York, 1855.</li><li>Small folio.</li><li>xii, [13]–95 pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer after a photograph, printed on thick paper.</li><li>Bound in the original green cloth, boards with blind-stamped floral decorations, title and triple-fillet border gilt, spine with title and floral ornaments gilt, marble endpapers, all edges gilt, housed in a custom half morocco folding case.</li></ul> “He was and is the poet and prophet of democracy, and the intoxication of his immense affirmative, the fervor of his ‘barbaric yawp,’ are so powerful that the echo of his crude yet rhythmic song rings forever in the American air” (Grolier One Hundred). The self-published&nbsp;Leaves was at least partially personally&nbsp;type-set by the author on a small handpress in Brooklyn. The portrait of Whitman is here in superior condition, without the foxing often encountered. This copy bears the printed copyright statement on the verso of the title page and has the first version of line 2 of page 49 (“And the night is for you and me and all”) identified by Schmidgall in his article, “1855: a Stop-Press Revision.” Of the original 795 copies, only 337 were issued in this first binding with extensive gilt stamping, marbled end-sheets, and gilt edges (in the second binding only the title was gilt, and plain yellow end-sheets were used).

Leaves of Grass First Edition

A third edition, first printing copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass.<ul><li>Walt Whitman (American).</li><li>Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-1861.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes portrait frontispiece.</li><li>Imprints of The Boston Stereotype Foundry and George C. Rand &amp; Avery on copyright page.</li><li>Bound in publisher's dark reddish orange cloth, upper and lower panels blind stamped, spine blind stamped and lettered in gilt.</li></ul> Scarce first trade issue marking the first appearance of the "Calamus" cluster.&nbsp;The 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).

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