1855, 1st Ed., 1st Issue

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First Edition, First Issue

Brooklyn, New York.

According to the entry on Walt Whitman in _Bibliography of American Literature_, the following three issues of the 1855 edition show slight differences (there is a detailed study in BAL on this). Since the typeset was not changed and the corrections were minor, they are not considered new "editions".