Walt Whitman: A Selected Primary Bibliography
 
 
Leaves of Grass. [First edition.] Brooklyn, N.Y. 1855.  95 pp.
Leaves of Grass. [Second edition.] Brooklyn, N.Y. 1856. 384 pp.
Leaves of Grass. [Third edition.] Brooklyn, N.Y. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61. 456 pp.
Drum-Taps. New York. 1865.  72 pp.  Drum-Taps and Sequel.  1865.  72 + 24 pp.
Leaves of Grass [Fourth edition.] New York. 1867. 338 pp.
Democratic Vistas. Washington, D.C. 1871. 84 pp.
Leaves of Grass. [Fifth edition.] Washington, D.C. 1871.  384 pp. With Passage to India. 1872. 120 pp.
Leaves of Grass. [Sixth edition.] Camden, N.J. 1876. (Vol. I of Author's Edition of Complete Works.)
Two Rivulets. Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India. Camden, N.J. 1876. (Vol. II of Author's complete Works.)
Leaves of Grass [Seventh edition.] Boston: James R. Osgood and co., 1881-82. 382 pp.  (Reprinted in Philadelphia by Rees Welsh and Co. in 1882 and by David Mckay.)
Specimen Days and Collect. Philadelphia: Rees Welsh and Co., 1882-83.374 pp. (Volume of Complete Works as companion to Leaves of Grass reprinted by Rees Welsh and Co. in 1882.)
November Boughs.  Philadelphia;  David McKay, 1888. 140 pp.
Complete Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman,  1855-1888. [Eight edition of poems, third of Complete Works.]  Philadelphia; published by the author, 1888. 382 + 374 pp.
Leaves of Grass, with Sands at Seventy and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd  Roads. [Eight separate edition of poems.]  Philadelphia, 1889. 404 + 18 pp.
Good - Bye, My Fancy. [Second Annex to Leaves of Grass; was Sands at Seventy in eight edition of poems.] Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891.  66 pp.
Leaves of Grass.  Ninth edition.] Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-1892. 438 pp. (also bound as Vol. I of the fourth edition of Complete Works to p. 383, reprint of 1881 edition; new poems annex pp. 383-422.)
Complete Prose Works. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892. 522 pp. (Also bound as Vol. II of Complete Works; later redated 1894 and 1897.)