Jun 20, 2019 - Sale 2514

Sale 2514 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)


Group of 5 volumes featuring Calamus.

Some illustrated. 4to and 8vo, original bindings. Condition varies, but generally good.

Additional Details

Includes: Calamus: A Series of Letters Written during the Years 1868-1880 to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle). first edition of whitman's letters to his love interest, peter doyle, the title from the section of Leaves of Grass dealing with "the manly love of comrades." Boston, 1897 Symonds, John Addington. Walt Whitman, a Study. Inscribed and signed by Symonds; with prospectus. London, 1893 Shay, Frank. The Bibliography of Walt Whitman. Number 70 of 500 copies. New York, 1920 2 copies of Whitman's Men. Whitman's Calamus poems illustrated by contemporary photographs. One copy in a dust jacket and signed by all the photographers: Frank Yamrus, Robert Flynt, Steve Morrison, John Dugdale, Bill Jacobson, Russell Maynor, and Mark Beard. New York, 1995.