Walt Whitman

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)

Leaves of grass

Boston: Thayer and Eldridge; year 85 of the States, (1860-61)

Part of the Ernest Leisy collection.

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)

Leaves of grass: comprising all the poems written by Walt Whitman, following the arrangement of the edition of 1891-’2

New York: Random House, (San Francisco: Edwin and Robert Grabhorn), 1930

“400 copies ... Woodcuts by Valenti Angelo”--Prelim. p. [2].

Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?

Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

From the collection of Stanley Marcus. Gift of Linda Marcus, 2003.

Library’s copy is no.48.

DAVID S. REYNOLDS (b. 1948)

Walt Whitman’s America: a cultural biography

New York: Knopf, 1995