31 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS “For The Sweetest, Wisest Soul Of All My Days And Lands…”: First Edition Of Whitman’s Drum-Taps, Important Preferred Issue With Sequel For Lincoln First edition, the important and preferred second issue, one of only 1000 copies, with the first appearance of the sequel celebrating Lincoln containing “Lilacs” and “O Captain! My Captain!” Drum-Taps “stands among the nation’s finest poems” (ANB). Upon the death of Lincoln, Whitman delayed the printing of DrumTaps and added “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” a “profoundly moving dirge for the martyred Lincoln” (CHAL), with separate pagination, table of contents, and title page. Text clean, inner paper hinges expertly reinforced, minuscule rubs to cloth extremities. A near-fine copy. 32WHITMAN, Walt. Drum-Taps. BOUND WITH: Sequel to Drum-Taps. When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d. New York and Washington, 1865-6. 12mo, original brown cloth. $12,500
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