FRANK SHAY.

New York City

July, 1920.

NOTE

The arrangement is chronological, the only practicable method.

In listing titles and imprints I have sought to follow the typography
and punctuation of the originals. Where this was not practicable I have
inserted punctuation marks to give the matter coherence. Where I have
interpolated remarks or descriptions within the titles I have enclosed
them in brackets to distinguish them from Whitman's parenthesis.

1842

The New World. Extra Series. Number 34. New York, November, 1842.
Original Temperance Novel. Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate. A Tale of
the Times. By Walter Whitman.

Royal octavo, pp. 31, uncut.

Published as an extra to "_The New World_."

The last page (32) contains advertisement: "New Works in Press."

Written during Whitman's Bohemian days it was advertised as a
thrilling romance by one of the best novelists in this country
and had a sale of between 20,000 and 25,000 copies, which netted
the author about $200. References to the work in later years
irritated Whitman and he refused to discuss it. The work is
extremely scarce considering the great number that were
published.

1855

Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York. 1855.

First edition. Twelve poems.

Imperial octavo, pink paper wrappers.

"Leaves of Grass" printed in block letters across front wrapper,
end wrapper blank. Steel engraved portrait, title, uncaptioned
preface, xii, Leaves of Grass, pp. 95, end blank.

The author's name appears only in the copyright notice, and in
the first poem: "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a
kosmos."

The poems, twelve in number, are without titles. In the present
authorized edition they appear under the following titles:

Song of Myself.
A Song for Occupations.
To Think of Time.
The Sleepers.
I Sing the Body Electric.
Faces.
Song of the Answer (part one).
Europe.
A Boston Ballad.
There Was a Child Went Forth.
Who Learns My Lesson Complete.
Great Are the Myths.

The preface was later worked into three poems:

By Blue Ontario's Shore.
Song of Prudence.
To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire.

There are three variations of the first edition. The one noted