Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

22 c WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) Group of 5 volumes featuring Calamus . Some illustrated. 4to and 8vo, original bindings. Condition varies, but generally good. [500/750] Includes: Calamus: A Series of Letters Written during the Years 1868-1880 to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle). first edition of whitman ’ s letters to his love interest , peter doyle , the title from the section of Leaves of Grass dealing with “the manly love of comrades.” Boston, 1897 * Symonds, John Addington. Walt Whitman, a Study. Inscribed and signed by Symonds; with prospectus. London, 1893 * Shay, Frank. The Bibliography of Walt Whitman. Number 70 of 500 copies. New York, 1920 * 2 copies of Whitman’s Men. Whitman’s Calamus poems illustrated by contemporary photographs. One copy in a dust jacket and signed by all the photographers : Frank Yamrus, Robert Flynt, Steve Morrison, John Dugdale, Bill Jacobson, Russell Maynor, and Mark Beard. New York, 1995. 23 c WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) Signature, on a holograph address panel, addressed to socialist philosopher and sexual reformer Edward Carpenter . 1 page, 6 3 / 4 x11 1 / 2 inches, 17x29 cm, moderate chipping to side edges, folds with minor loss to text, faint scattered soiling, canceled 10-cent postage stamp showing profile of Thomas Jefferson at upper right. Camden, [7 December 1888: from postmark.] [2,000/3,000] Edward Carpenter / Millthorpe / near Chesterfield / England / Walt Whitman / Camden N.J. / America.” Whitman’s letter to Carpenter, once contained in the envelope of which the present lot was part, discussed health problems and literary projects, and was dated December 6 and 7, 1888: “. . . I . . . have bro’t out a little book ‘November Boughs’ . . . . Also am finishing a big Vol. comprehending all my stuff, poems & prose, makes ab’t 900 pages [Complete Poems & Prose (1888)]. . . . Love to you, dear friend.” Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was a British writer and disciple of Whitman whose activism promoted social justice and same-sex love. (see lots 6-8) 23