1883. FIRST UK EDITION, from the sheets of the third American printing . 8vo pp vi, 374, 1p advt for Leaves of Grass. Publishers yellow cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt signature on front cover. Slight wear to spine, pages browned otherwise very good.  This is a choice collection of Whitman’s unique impressions of the people, places, and events of his time, principally the era of the Civil War and its aftermath and is the closest that America’s greatest poet (1819-1892) ever came to autobiography. It was first published in the US in 1882. (Stock Ref: 69)