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). Pages marginally toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, else an excellent example. Publisher's lime T-like cloth (bold ribbed), cover blind stamped with single rule frame, spine lettered in gilt. Young of Whitman and Peter Doyle on verso before title page, the other a photograph of a letter on recto after p. Small 8vo: viii,173pp, with two inserted leaves of Japan paper, one (frontispiece) with drawing by H. Edited, with an introduction, by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. First American Issue of the only edition, with spine imprint Maynard and title page "Published by Laurens Maynard" (later Small, Maynard).
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