Washington, D.C.: (Printed for the author by J.S. Redfield), 1871. First edition, first issue (one of at least only 500 copies printed). 8vo. 84 pp. Publisher's stiff light green wrappers, printed in black, lightly worn; all edges untrimmed; text largely unopened. Includes a typed letter and original receipt from bookseller John Grant, Edinburgh, dated 1946. Myerson A4.1.a1; BAL 21402; Wells and Goldsmith, p. 16

A remarkably well-preserved and unopened copy of Whitman's prose pamphlet on the spirit of American democracy following the Civil War. Virtually as-new.