Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
$150,000 Estimate for Rare Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass First Edition
Freeman’s June 8 auction A Fine Collection of American Literature and History is led by an exceedingly rare 1855 first edition, first issue, of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. With an estimate of $…
Do It Yourself! Self-Publishing from Letterpress to LaserJet exhibition
Harvard Explores the History of Self-Publishing
Austen, Whitman, Woolf all self-published? That’s right. In Do It Yourself!
Photograph of Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman's Missing Notebooks
On January 28, 2009, Dr.
Walt Whitman, photographed by George C. Cox in 1887
Walt Whitman Initiative Invites Fellowship Applications
The Walt Whitman Initiative (WWI) invites applications for a fellowship program to encourage new research on Walt Whitman and his cultural legacy and to mentor a promising, public-minded
Frontispiece by Frances Rogers for Carolyn Wells’ first mystery, The Clue (1909)
Video Fridays: Carolyn Wells in the Library
Last weekend, I gave a Zoom presentation to the Florida Bibliophile Society about my new research project: librarian, author, and b
Video Fridays: Leaves of Grass
Whitman, Milne & Kipling Headline Doyle’s Fine Literature Auction on Sept. 30
New York -- Doyle will hold a timed auction of Fine Literature closing on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 10am EDT.
Audre Lorde in Her Home Study
LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History at Swann August 13
New York — The second annual offering of a specialty sale of LGBTQ
Walt Whitman’s Words: Inspiring Artists Today
Whitman Catalogue Wins AIGA Award
Good news in from curator Deirdre Lawrence and the Center for Book Arts: the catalogue produced to accompany the CBA’s fall 2019 exhibition,
Fine Books winter 2020
Fine Books' Best of 2019
ICYMI: Our top ten most popular posts of 2019. Number one takes a page from our winter issue’s cover feature, pictured above.