The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 10 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Three quarter maroon morocco over marbled paper boards, boards ruled in gold, spines in six compartments, gold decorations and gold lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns, each volume with a silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Title pages done in red and black (although in volumes four through ten the second title page is done in black ink only). Printed on Ruisdael hand-made paper. The Paumanok edition, limited to three hundred sets, this set is numbered 204. Each volume is illustrated with a color frontispiece (several of which are portraits of Whitman), an engraved title page, and with three plates. Volume one contains Leaves of Grass, with a biography of the author. Volume two contains Leaves of Grass, as does volume three. Volume three also contains various readings, with first drafts of certain poems, rejected passages, and poems dropped by the way. Volume four marks the beginning of Whitman's various collected prose works in the set. Issued under the editorial supervision of his literary executors, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel. With additional bibliographical and critical material prepared by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph.D. BAL 21454. Myerson B4. Around 1,300 copies of a limited edition of Whitman's works were printed, and the copies were separated into six distinct limited editions. A beautiful set of the beloved American poet's works. The set is enriched with biographical materials like Whitman's letters to his mother, and with articles from Thomas Harned on Whitman's literary style. Very Good or better. Item #000014488
Light wear to a few corners, the rear joint of volume one neatly repaired, a dark spot on the foot of volume four. Each volume with a bookplate on its front pastedown.
Price: $10,000.00