Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$18.50 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A Modern Day REPRINT direct from the original work. Fresh NEW. Strong tight bright SOFTCOVER . Not used. No remainder or other markings.
Seller: Mom and Pop's Book Shop,, Wakefield, RI, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. Specimen Days & Collect. Rees Welsh & Co., Philadelphia, 1882.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Gilt lettered mustard yellow cloth. Moderate soil, edgewear, bumping and shallow insect nibbling. Lower fore corners of pages and lower fore corner of rear board with a bit of pest nibbling. Spine somewhat browned. Foxing to page edges and interior. Toned pages. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman. Specimen Days & Collect. Rees Welsh & Co, Philadelphia, 1882.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Blue library buckram. 374 pp. VG- (ex-library with call number on binding and library ink stamps on copyright page, toc, and final page. minor finger smudges on a few pages. relatively new library binding. two page corners dog eared from a timming error. otherwise VG)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. SPECIMEN DAYS AND COLLECT. David McKay 1882/1883, Philadelphia, 1882.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, vi, 376 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in mustard yellow cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Mild shelf wear. Fraying to cloth on head and tail of spine. Bumping to corners. Age toning to interior pages. Decorated endpapers. Shelved in Case 13. A reprint by David McKay of the 1882-83 Rees Welsh and Co. edition, following their late 1882 takeover of Rees Welsh's publishing activities. BAL 21627. 1374755. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Rees Welsh & Company, 1882.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Seventh edition early printing. Very little wear, little read. First edition printed in Philadelphia after the Ticknor-Osgood edition was banned in Boston. Gilt on Mustard colored boards. Mint engraving of Whitman opposite page 29 with tissue protector. Tipped into front a notice which reads "Ready in September Whitman's prose works Specimen days and Collect, Price $2.00, Leaves of Grass, Price $2.00 A nice copy.
Seller: Hill Country Books, Ctr Sandwich, NH, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt30960. Specimen Days & Collect. Rees Welsh & Co. 1882-'83, Philadelphia, 1882.
Price: US$518.00 + shipping
Description: 376p. BAL 21422: binding C one plate inserted at p. 122. Very good condition, head & foot of spine chipped
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
WHITMAN, WALT. Specimen Days & Collect. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1882-'83, 1882.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION, second printing, first issue. Thomas Harneds copy, with his bookplate. Whitmans friend Harned was one of the poets literary executors, alog with Horace Traubel and Richard B. Bucke. David McKay at Rees Welsh, Whitmans new publisher following the Boston Leaves of Grass controversy agreed to publish this autobiographical work, which Whitman called the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed. McKay took over the firm in 1882 and used his own name in the imprint for the second and subsequent printings. The book includes not only Specimen Days but also many of Whitmans other prose writings, including Democratic Vistas, his essay on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, his various prefaces, and the prose stream from Two Rivulets. Surprisingly, Whitman also decided to include some of his early and long-forgotten fiction and pre-Leaves poetry. The book was another Whitman compendium, bringing between one set of covers a diverse group of writings, but this time presenting them in uniform type and sequential pagination. He thought of it as a prose volume to match his Leaves of Grass, and Rees Welsh published it in a matching binding so that buyers could own an attractive set of Whitmans work (Folsom, Walt Whitman as a Maker of Books, Whitman Archive). Opposite p. 122 appears the famous photograph of Whitman with a butterfly perched on his finger. The butterfly was made of paper, though Whitman, likely joking, sometimes asserted that it was real. The butterfly appears on the spine of the book. Original olive-brown cloth. Fine. A lovely copy.
Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.