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FOURTH EDITION OF LEAVES OF GRASS. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892 Leaves of Grass. New-York: [Printed for the author] by Wm. E. Chapin, 1867.
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FOURTH EDITION OF LEAVES OF GRASS.
WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892 Leaves of Grass. New-York: [Printed for the author] by Wm. E. Chapin, 1867.
8vo (208 x 116 mm). Publisher's plain dark brown wrappers, front cover chipped but present, lacking rear cover and blanks. Folding cloth chemise, morocco-backed custom clamshell box.
Provenance: From the collection of Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher; sold to our consignor.
FOURTH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF LEAVES OF GRASS, and the first book appearance of "O Captain! My Captain," including Leaves of Grass, Drum-Taps, Sequel to Drum-Taps, and "Songs Before Parting," each bound with separate title page and pagination, in variant brown paper wrappers. This copy without the first blank binder's leaf (after p iv), but with the following two blanks noted by Myerson. The fourth edition of Leaves of Grass is the most bibliographically complex, despite adding only 6 new poems. Whitman's reputation had suffered when he lost his job with the Indian Bureau in June 1865, but with the publication in the Saturday Press of his paean to Lincoln "O Captain! My Captain," he earned an entirely new audience. A reviewer in the Boston Commonwealth wrote, "...this displaced and slighted poet has written the most touching dirge for Abraham Lincoln of all that have appeared," before printing the poem in its entirety. The fourth edition as issued in late 1866 is really four separate books, and subsequent issues did not include all four works. Myerson A2.4.a1.
8vo (208 x 116 mm). Publisher's plain dark brown wrappers, front cover chipped but present, lacking rear cover and blanks. Folding cloth chemise, morocco-backed custom clamshell box.
Provenance: From the collection of Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher; sold to our consignor.
FOURTH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF LEAVES OF GRASS, and the first book appearance of "O Captain! My Captain," including Leaves of Grass, Drum-Taps, Sequel to Drum-Taps, and "Songs Before Parting," each bound with separate title page and pagination, in variant brown paper wrappers. This copy without the first blank binder's leaf (after p iv), but with the following two blanks noted by Myerson. The fourth edition of Leaves of Grass is the most bibliographically complex, despite adding only 6 new poems. Whitman's reputation had suffered when he lost his job with the Indian Bureau in June 1865, but with the publication in the Saturday Press of his paean to Lincoln "O Captain! My Captain," he earned an entirely new audience. A reviewer in the Boston Commonwealth wrote, "...this displaced and slighted poet has written the most touching dirge for Abraham Lincoln of all that have appeared," before printing the poem in its entirety. The fourth edition as issued in late 1866 is really four separate books, and subsequent issues did not include all four works. Myerson A2.4.a1.