Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts by Whitman, Walt (Edward F. Grier, editor) - 1984

New York: New York Universty Press, 1984. Quarto. In six volumes. this six-volume set edited by Edward F. Grier comprises all of Whitman's notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts except those published in William White's Daybooks and Notebooks (1978). Of the 1,300 items included, about half were not previously published, but even the ones that can be found elsewhere were never before edited so meticulously or presented so readable. [see Whitman Archives]. Bound in red cloth stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt over dark blue. A fine set without glassine wrappers.