Resources for Professor Caleb Smith’s Spring 2015 Introduction to American Literature Course (ENG 127)
Session 1
Walt Whitman Books and Manuscripts
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Leaves of Grass – 1855
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Leaves of Grass – 1856
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Walt Whitman Papers – YCAL MSS 202
Box 2 (Twain Open Letter–folder 80)
Box 3 (“Pictures,” holograph notebook, corrected–folder 137), (notebooks: folders 140-41)
Box 4 (photos)
Leaves of Grass facsimile with resources (including facsimile of Emerson letter)
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Dave Morice, The adventures of Whitman, words from “Leaves of grass” [poetry comics].
BrSides Box 2008 8
Moby Dick: Editions, Adaptations, & Abridgements
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Moby-Dick, or, The whale / by Herman Melville, Author of “Typee”,” “Omoo”, “Redburn”, “Mardi”, “White-jacket”. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1851
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The Whale / by Herman Melville ; in three volumes. Published: London : Richard Bentley, 1851. v.1-3
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First appearance of source text, “Mocha Dick”
Knickerbocker, or, New-York monthly magazine. Vol. XIII. New-York : Clark and Edson, proprietors, 1839
Shirley S254 13
Special limited edition reprint of source text, “Mocha Dick”
Mocha Dick; or, The white whale of the Pacific, by J. N. Reynolds, esq.; pictures by Lowell LeRoy, New York, London, C. Scribner’s sons, 1932.
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Large 3 volume set illustrated by Rockwell Kent; housed in metal box; Linda Porter’s copy (Cole Porter’s wife) with her bookplate
Moby Dick; or, The whale, by Herman Melville … illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Chicago, The Lakeside press, 1930.
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Moby Dick, or, The whale / by Herman Melville ; illustrated by Rockwell Kent, New York : Random House, 1930.
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Four American novels / [edited by] Edmund Fuller, Olga Achtenhagen, New York : Harcourt, Brace, c1959.
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Program for the 1926 silent film adapted from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
Warner Bros. present John Barrymore in “The sea beast.”. [Warner Bros.], [1926] //16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits, some colour
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Moby Dick, or, The white whale / by Herman Melville ; photoplay title, The sea beast ; illustrated with scenes from the photoplay, a Warner Bros. screen classic starring John Barrymore. Published/Created:New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1925 [i.e. 1926?]
Wolff Photoplay 30
The story of Moby Dick : the great white whale / adapted from the novel by Herman Melville ; illustrated with scenes from ‘The sea beast’. Published/Created:Racine, Wis. : Whitman Publishing Company, c1934.
Wolff Photoplay 29
Moby Dick; a play for radio from Herman Melville’s novel.Published/Created:London : J. Cape, [1947]
2006 1020
Moby Dick; or, The White Whale / by Herman Melville ; illustrated by Mead Schaeffer. New York : Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923.
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Limited Editions Club special edition
Moby Dick : or, The whale / by Herman Melville; with an introd. by Clifton Fadiman [New York] : Limited Editions Club, 1943.
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Emoji Dick, or, The Whale / by Herman Melville ; Edited and Compiled by Fred Benenson ; Translation by Amazon Mechanical Turk. 2010
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Cetology / designed and illustrated by Sarah Vogel. Published/Created:[Chicago, Ill. : S. Vogel, 2010]
2013 Folio 36
The whiteness / Herman Melville ; [2 etchings and 3 embossings by Claire Illouz]. Published/Created:[Chérencé-Le-Héron, France? : s.n., 2008]
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