Chicago: Caxton Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. One of five variant bindings (collect them all!) deposited in the Newberry Library. Limited... more

London: printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, MDCCXCII. [1792]. Second Edition. Half-Calf. Thick 8vo: xvi,536pp, with two large folding maps (States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, Comprehending the Spanish Provinces of East and West Florida . . . by Joseph Purcell; and Northern and Middle States, comprehending the... more

Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition of this "landmark, for Smith was the first American writer to make fishing the subject of even a short treatise." (Goodspeed) Small 8vo: vii,[1],399,[1,errata]pp (p. 365 misnumbered 265), with title-page vignette, divisional title-page vignette, and numerous woodcuts throughout. Publisher's original... more

London: George G. Harrap [through 1912], 1911. Pictorial Cloth. Complete in five volumes. Thick 8vo: xvi,440; [4],xxii,492; xiv,423,[1]; xii,319,[1]; viii,303,[1]pp, with 33 full-page halftones, including the frontispiece, in each volume (165 in total). Publisher's finely woven forest-green pictorial cloth, elaborate art nouveau title frames stamped in gilt and copper on... more

Boston: Laurens Maynard, MDCCCXCVII [1897]. First Edition. Cloth. First American Issue of the only edition, with spine imprint Maynard and title page "Published by Laurens Maynard" (later Small, Maynard). Edited, with an introduction, by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. Small 8vo: viii,173pp, with two inserted leaves... more

Philadelphia: David McKay, No. 23 South Ninth Street, 1884. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of the Rees Welsh edition of 1882 (which, in turn, reprinted the sixth, banned edition published in Boston), with integral title page; in effect, the second Philadelphia edition. 8vo: 382pp, single leaf with Samuel Hollyer 's steel-engraved... more

Camden, New Jersey: Author's Edition, 1876. First Edition. Half-Calf. First Issue, one of only 100 copies [BAL 21411], sometimes called the Centennial Edition, after the label at foot of the spine. 8vo: 32,[2],84,[2] 18,[2],x,[4],14,[4],68,[2],120pp, with albumen print frontispiece portrait of the poet autographed by Whitman tipped-in with printed two-line caption... more