Penny Poets.

Quite scarce.

[*Date registered British Copyright Office.]

1897

Leaves of Grass including Sands at Seventy, Good-Bye My Fancy, Old Age
Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Traveled Roads. By Walt Whitman
[device]. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1897.

Octavo, green cloth, uncut; portrait, title, poem, author's
note, no pagination, pp. 455.

Later editions from the same plates:

D. Appleton & Company.
Mitchell Kennerley.
Doubleday, Page & Company.

1897

Calamus. A Series of Letters Written during the Years 1868-1880. By Walt
Whitman to a Young Friend [Peter Doyle]. Edited with an introduction by
Richard Maurice Bucke, M. D., one of Whitman's literary executors.
[Quotation from p. 102, "Leaves of Grass," edition of 1892.] Published
by Laurens Maynard at 287 Congress Street in Boston, MDCCCXCVII.

Duodecimo, boards, cloth back, paper label; zinc etching of
Whitman and Peter Doyle reproduced from a photograph by Rice,
Washington, D. C., 1869; title, 4 pp. quotations, chronological
notes of Walt Whitman's life, introduction, pp. 173.

The first issue was limited to 35 numbered copies. A regular
edition was published at the same time.

1898

Complete Prose Works. Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and
Good-Bye My Fancy. By Walt Whitman [device]. Boston: Small, Maynard &
Company, 1898.

Octavo, cloth, uncut; half-title, portrait, title, contents,
list of illustrations, pp. 527.

Later editions from the same plates:

A. Appleton & Company.
Mitchell Kennerley.
Doubleday, Page & Company.

1898

The Wound Dresser. A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in
Washington during the War of the Rebellion. By Walt Whitman. Edited by
Richard Maurice Bucke, M. D., one of Whitman's literary executors
[device]. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.

Octavo, red buckram, uncut; title, portrait, contents, pp. 201.

The edition was limited to 10 copies signed by the editor; the
earliest of these copies have the publisher's device slightly
out of the center.

1898

Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman. Edited with an
Introduction by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph.D. (The University of Chicago)
[device]. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.

Octavo, buckram, uncut; half-title, portrait, title, dedication