Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61. Third Edition. Presumed fourth and fifth (second and third unauthorized) printings, sans imprint or stereotyper's information on copyright page [n.d., but ca.1880s]. Octavo (19.25cm); deep purplish-red morocco grain cloth boards with beveled edges; titling and decorations stamped in gilt and in blind to spine and..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2014. Limited Edition. An exquisitely produced edition of Leaves of Grass, issued as the one hundredth publication of The Arion Press. Letterpress printed in Goudy Californian on Langley paper from the Barcham Green Mill in England, with watermarks of the mill and of Arion Press..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. Limited Edition. Fine press edition of this poem from Whitman's 1856 collection, Leaves of Grass, brought to life by American photographer Aaron Siskind (1903-1991). "The illustrations for Song of the Open Road transform Whitman's symbolic journeyings into the language of modern urbanism...The photographer's..... More
New York: George D. Smith, 1905. First Edition. First appearance in print of an undated manuscript Whitman prepared for the printer, though never published during his lifetime - a reminiscence of the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to the United States in 1824-25, when Whitman was six years old. The manuscript..... More