Books and Manuscripts

Whitman, Walt
Drum-Taps, with Sequel to Drum-Taps
New-York, 1865. First edition, second issue (with Sequel to Drum-Taps, Washington, 1865-66). 12mo. 72, (2), 24 pp.; lacking front free endpaper. Publisher's full brown cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt; edges speckled red; with the armorial book-plate of poet and scholar Percy L. Babington on front paste-down; front hinge lightly worn. Myerson A3.1.a2; BAL 21398; Wells and Goldsmith pp. 11-12

A handsome and very desirable copy of the second issue of Whitman's Drum-Taps, one of 1,000 copies printed, and featuring the first appearances of "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!"