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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Calamus - A Series Of Letters Written During The Years 1868-1880 By Walt Whitman To A Young Friend, Peter Doyle.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Putnam, no date. Hardcover. viii, 173p., frontis, chronological notes of Whitman's life, introduction, interview with Peter Doyle, facsimile reproduction of the 1898 Putnam edition rebound in modern black cloth boards and gilt titles on spine including a gilt call number, no library markings or pockets, utilitarian production but very nice hardbound copy. Likely a rebound 1972 Folcroft Library reprint of the English edition.

Angell Pubns, 2008. Paperback. New. 188 pages. 8.43x5.39x0.28 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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Laurens Maynard. Collectible - Acceptable. Boston, MA: Laurens Maynard, 1897. 1st American edition, 1897. 12mo hardcover. viii+173pp. Frontispiece, facsimile. Fair book. Front hinge cracked. (Walt Whitman, Peter Doyle, Personal Correspondence) Inquire if you need further information.

WHITMAN, Walt. Calamus. A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868-1880 by...to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle). Edited With an Introduction by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., One of Whitman's Literary Executors. Orig. cloth. Frontis. portrait. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1897. First issue. Near-fine copy in a morrocco back cloth folding box. BAL 21446.

Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897. First Edition. Cloth. Fine-. First American Issue of the only edition, with spine imprint Maynard and title page "Published by Laurens Maynard" (later Small, Maynard). Edited, with an introduction, by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. Small 8vo: viii,173pp, with two inserted leaves of Japan paper, one (frontispiece) with drawing by H. D. Young of Whitman and Peter Doyle on verso before title page, the other a photograph of a letter on recto after p. 112. Publisher's lime T-like cloth (bold ribbed), cover blind stamped with single rule frame, spine lettered in gilt. Pages marginally toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, else an excellent example. BAL 21446. Myerson A14.I.b1. In the third edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1860, Whitman's "Calamus" poems, a cluster devoted to male-male affection, make their first appearance (the edition on offer here is the first, 37 years later, in which the poems stand alone). The… Read More

Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages a little toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, as nearly always the case. Original green cloth. Edited with an introduction by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's literary executors. BAL 21446: Issue A; Meyerson A14.I.b1. Illustrated with a portrait of Whitman with Doyle and a facsimile of a Whitman letter. This book marks the first separate publication (outside of LEAVES OF GRASS) of Whitman's Calamus poems devoted to male romantic relationships. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by another of Whitman's literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, on 9 January 1898 to renowned author Mary Mapes Dodge, the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century. For more than 30 years Dodge edited ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, the primary magazine for children at the time. She also wrote the classic HANS BRINKER, OR THE SILVER SKATES.