Leaves of Grass Including Sands at Seventy, First Annex, Goodbye My Fancy, Second Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads and Portrait from Life. by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

N.Y., Simon & Schuster [1980]. Hard Cover. 432 p., [32] p. of photographs; 24 cm. Considers the poet's years of apprenticeship on New York papers, his experiences in the Civil War, and his lifetime devotion to the writing and reworking of Leaves of Grass. Vg, as new/vg. Another copy, Vg/ dj good. Stock#101944x.

NY, Knopf, 1961. Hard Cover. xvi, 333 p., [16] p. of plates, illus.; 22 cm. A collection of notes, letters and poems written by Whitman during the war. 16 pages of Civil War drawings by Winslow Homer. Second printing. BAL 21487. Stock#47149. Vg, bookplate / dj vg, spine sunned.

Toronto, ECW Press, 1995. Soft Cover. During his last years Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, lived in Camden, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, where from 1884 to 1889 William Osler taught at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. In 1919 Osler began to write about his personal and professional relationship with poet, but died before he could finish the manuscript. The text is published here with extensive annotations to fill in the gaps. 212 p.; Vg; paperback. 26240.

N.Y., Madison Square Press/ Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Hard Cover. 192 p., illus.; 28 cm. A Note (p. [13]): "The introduction written by William Carlos Williams dates back to 1960 when this illustrated "Leaves of Grass" was first conceived. Many of the original photographs have been changed..." Gift inscription on flyleaf; no dj; VG. 101957.

NY, Columbia UP, 1976. Hard Cover. 301 p., index; dj; fine. Whitman first published Leaves of Grass in 1855. Over the next thirty years he added and rewrote, but the original edition made a singular statement in its preface and in 'Song of Myself'. stock#101947.

Harper & Bros., NY [1941]. 'First Edition'. Hard Cover. 341 p., index, plates; blue cloth; VG. The author was one of the few Italian-American (her parents immigrated from Sicily) writers who attacked Fascism. Walt Whitman's commitment to freedom (derived from his own parents) attracted her to the poet as a subject of biography. stock#101945.

Carlton House. Hardcover. Very Good. TEXT UNMARKED

IDB Productions, 2018-01-01. MP3 CD. New.

IDB Productions, 2018-01-01. MP3 CD. New. FIRST O SONGS FOR A PRELUDE.</br></br></br></br> First O songs for a prelude,</br></br> Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city,</br></br> How she led the rest to arms, how she gave the cue,</br></br> How at once with lithe limbs unwaiting a moment she sprang,</br></br> (O superb! O Manhattan, my own, my peerless!</br></br> O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis! O truer than steel!)</br></br> How you sprang

NY: Little Leather Library Corporation, 1916. Leatherbound. Good. Green soft leather; 127 numbered pages. Edge wear and tone to pages with soiling. Fragile. Founded in 1916, the LLLC originally used real leather for their binding but switched to faux leather during WWI. Their books measured 3¼ X 4 inches, and reprinted strictly public domain works. It is unknown if the works are edited or abridged. Of the 101 chapbooks in this series, none are numbered. In 1922 LLLC was renamed Robert K. Haas. "isfdb" Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. Wikipedia When Lilacs Last in the Door Yard Bloom'd Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day (May 4, 1805) Tim's Dust Was Once the Man Drum-Taps Song of the Open Road.