The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Books

Publishing in periodicals usually provided the quickest and most reliable source of income for the writers who gathered at Pfaff's (that is, when editors actually paid—something that Saturday Press editor Henry Clapp was notorious for not doing). Many of them also published books, with varying degrees of success. Fitz-Hugh Ludlow'sThe Hasheesh Eater (1857) attempted to capitalize on the fame of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) from a generation earlier, and Thomas Butler Gunn's The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses (1857) became part of an emerging genre of urban interest books as American cities grew and developed in the 1840s and 50s. Writers who would later become some of the most prominent authors in the postbellum United States—such as Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Edmund Clarence Stedman—published their first books during their time at Pfaff's, with Aldrich's The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems appearing in 1859 and Stedman's The Prince's Ball (which was adapted from earlier publications in Vanity Fair) coming out in 1860. The three women who were most central to the bohemian scene—Ada Clare, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Adah Isaacs Menken—all published books right as their time in bohemia came to an end: Clare's loosely autobiographical novel, Only a Woman's Heart (1866), was a commercial and critical failure, which led her to put aside writing and focus on her acting career; Menken's posthumous book of poetry, Infelicia (1868), continued to feed the public fascination with her larger-than-life persona; and Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862) was the first of three novels that would gain her a small but loyal following throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

The most famous book to emerge from bohemian New York was the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860). Whitman had published two earlier editions of his book of poems in 1855 and 1856 that were modestly well received, but neither gave him the success that he knew he deserved. When Whitman joined with the bohemians at Pfaff's in 1858, they rallied around him in the pages of the Saturday Press and Vanity Fair with reviews, homages, and parodies of his work that helped to attract the attention of the Thayer and Eldridge publishing firm. The 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass was the first to sell out its initial print run, setting the stage for Whitman's growing popularity throughout the rest of the century. 

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  • Mayes, Herbert R.. Alger; A Biography without a Hero. New York: Macy-Masius. (1928-1-1).

  • Howland, Harold. Charles Frederick Briggs. Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in <cite>Biography Resource Center</cite>. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2006. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC. (1928-1-1).

  • Bates, Ernest Sutherland. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in <cite>Biography Resource Center</cite>. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2006. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC. (1928-1-1).

  • Whitman, Walt. A Child's Reminiscence. Seattle: University of Washington Book Store. (1930-1-1).

  • O'Higgins, Harvey. Alias Walt Whitman. Newark, NJ: Carteret Book Club. (1930-1-1).

  • Barrus, Clara. Whitman and Burroughs: Comrades. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. (1931-1-1).

  • Odell, George Clinton. Annals of the New York Stage: Volume VI (1850-1857). New York: Columbia University Press. (1931-1-1).

  • Odell, George Clinton. Annals of the New York Stage: Volume VII (1857-1865). New York: Columbia University Press. (1931-1-1).

  • Johnson, Overton and William Winter. Route Across the Rocky Mountains, by Overton Johnson and Wm. H. Winter, of the Emigration of 1843. Reprinted with Preface and Notes by Carl L. Cannon, from the Edition of 1846. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (1932-1-1).

  • Glicksberg, Charles I.. Walt Whitman and the Civil War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (1933-1-1).

  • Parry, Albert. Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America. New York: Covici, Friede. (1933-1-1).

  • Schyberg, Frederick. Walt Whitman. Copenhagen/New York: Columbia University Press. (1933-1-1).

  • Falk, Bernard. The Naked Lady, or, Storm over Adah: A Biography of Adah Isaacs Menken. London: Hutchinson & Co. (1934-1-1).

  • Wyndham, Horace. The Magnificent Montez: From Courtesan to Convert. New York: Hillman-Curl. (1935-1-1).

  • Ford, James. Slums and Housing, with Special Reference to New York City: History, Conditions, Policy. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press. (1936-1-1).

  • Shephard, Esther. Walt Whitman's Pose. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. (1936-1-1).

  • Odell, George C.D.. Annals of the New York Stage: Volume VIII (1865-1870). New York:Columbia University Press. (1936-1-1).

  • Whitman, Walt. New York Dissected. New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson. (1936-1-1).

  • Odell, George C.D.. Annals of the New York Stage: Volume IX (1870-1875). New York:Columbia University Press. (1936-1-1).

  • Whitman, Walt. Street Yarn. New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson. (1936-1-1).

  • Taylor, Bayard. The Unpublished Letters of Bayard Taylor in the Huntington Library. San Marino, Calif: Huntington Library Pub. (1937-1-1).

  • Kunitz, Stanley Jaspoon and Howard Haycraft. American Authors, 1600-1900. H.W. Wilson. (1938-1-1).

  • Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines, Volume II: 1850-1865. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (1938-1-1).

  • Pattee, Fred Louis. The Feminine Fifties. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated. (1940-1-1).

  • Winwar, Frances. American Giant. New York: Harper and Brothers. (1941-1-1).

  • Brougham, John. The Duke's Motto; Or, I Am Here! A Play in a Prologue and Four Acts. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (1941-1-1).

  • National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1862-1860. New York: New York Historical Society. (1943-1-1).

  • Wolle, Francis. Fitz-James O'Brien: A Literary Bohemian of the Eighteen-Fifties. Boulder, Col.; University of Colorado. (1944-1-1).

  • Taylor, Bayard and Paul Hamilton Hayne. The Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul Hamilton Hayne. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. (1945-1-1).

  • Brooks, Van Wyck. The Times of Melville and Whitman. New York: Dutton. (1947-1-1).

  • Wilson, Rufus Rockwell and Otilie Erickson Wilson. New York in Literature, the Story Told in the Landmarks of Town and Country by Rufus Rockwell Wilson in Collaboration with Otilie Erickson Wilson. Elmira, New York: Primavera Press. (1947-1-1).

  • Lesser, Allen. Enchanting Rebel; The Secret of Adah Isaacs Menken. New York: Beechhurst Press. (1947-1-1).

  • Wilson, Rufus Rockwell and Otilie Erickson Wilson. New York in Literature; The Story Told in the Landmarks of Town and Country. Elmira, NY: Primavera Press. (1947-1-1).

  • Levin, Harry T.. The Discovery of Bohemia. New York: Macmillan. (1948-1-1).

  • Jefferson, Joseph. "Rip Van Winkle": The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson. London: Reinhardt & Evans. (1949-1-1).

  • Taylor, Bayard. Eldorado; or, Adventures in the Path of Empire. New York: A. A. Knopf. (1949-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Representative Selections. New York: American Book Co. (1950-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Selected Writings. New York: Random House. (1950-1-1).

  • Albert Johannsen. The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. (1950-1-1).

  • Wallace, William Stewart. A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Toronto: Ryerson Press. (1951-1-1).

  • Schyberg, Frederik. Walt Whitman. New York: Columbia University Press. (1951-1-1).

  • Strong, George Templeton. Diary. New York: Macmillan. (1952-1-1).

  • Starr, Louis Morris. Bohemian Brigade; Civil War Newsmen in Action. New York: Knopf. (1954-1-1).

  • Allen, Gay Wilson. The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman. New York: MacMillan. (1955-1-1).

  • Miller, Perry. The Raven and the Whale: the war of words and wits in the era of Poe and Melville. New York: Harcourt, Brace. (1956-1-1).

  • Felheim, Marvin. The Theatre of Augustin Daly. Cambridge: Harvard UP. (1956-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Prefaces to Contemporaries, 1882-1920. Gainesville, Fla.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints. (1957-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Howells and James: A Double Billing, Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading: An Impersonal Explanation. New York New York Public Library. (1958-1-1).

  • Blair, Walter. Mark Twain and Huck Finn. Berkeley: University of California Press. (1960-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean and Mark Twain. Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (1960-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. The Complete Plays of W. D. Howells. New York: N.Y. University Press. (1960-1-1).

  • Holloway, Emory. Free and Lonesome Heart: The Secret of Walt Whitman. New York: Vantage Press. (1960-1-1).

  • Miller, Edwin Haviland. Introduction. New York: New York University Press. (1961-1-1).

  • Coyle, William. Ohio Authors and Their Books. Biographical Data and Selective Bibliographies for Ohio Authors, Native and Resident, 1796-1950. Cleveland, New York: World Pub. Co. (1962-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. Alger Street: The Poetry of Horatio Alger, Jr. Boston, J.S. Canner. (1964-1-1).

  • Lewis, Paul. Queen of the Plaza: A Biography of Adah Issacs Menken. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. (1964-1-1).

  • Whitman, Walt. I Sit and Look Out. New York: AMS. (1966-1-1).

  • Thomas, Lately. Delmonico's: A Century of Splendor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (1967-1-1).

  • Hahn, Emily. Romantic Rebels; An Informal History of Bohemianism in America. Boston; Houghton Mifflin. (1967-1-1).

  • Hibbert, Christopher. The Making of Charles Dickens. London: Longmans Green & Co. (1967-1-1).

  • Burroughs, John. The Life and Letters of John Burroughs. 2 Vols. New York: Russell and Russell. (1968-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Literary Friends and Aquaintance. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. (1968-1-1).

  • De Gurowski, Adam G., Count. Diary. New York: B. Franklin. (1968-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. A Selected Edition of W. D. Howells. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (1968-1-1).

  • Stern, Madeleine B.. The Pantarch. Austin & London: University of Texas Press. (1968-1-1).

  • Clemenceau, Georges. American Reconstruction: 1865-1870. 1928. New York: Da Capo Press. (1969-1-1).

  • Auser, Cortland P.. Nathaniel P. Willis. New York: Twayne Publishers. (1969-1-1).

  • Baldensperger, Fernand. Introduction. New York: Da Capo Press. (1969-1-1).

  • Miller, Edwin Haviland. Walt Whitman's Poetry: A Psychological Journey. New York: New York University Press. (1969-1-1).

  • Soria, Regina. Elihu Vedder: American Visionary Artist in Rome. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. (1970-1-1).

  • Ballou, Ellen B.. The Building of the House: Houghton Mifflin's Formative Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (1970-1-1).

  • Rossetti, William Michael. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family-Letters with a Memoir (Volume Two). New York: AMS Press. (1970-1-1).

  • Booth, Edwin and William Winter. Between Actor and Critic; Selected Letters of Edwin Booth and William Winter. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (1971-1-1).

  • Gabor, Mark. The Pin-Up: A Modest History. New York: Universe Books. (1972-1-1).

  • De Gurowski, Adam G.. America and Europe. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press. (1972-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. W. D. Howells as Critic. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (1973-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. Silas Snobden's Office Boy. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday. (1973-1-1).

  • O'Brien, Fitz-James; Leonard Baskin. What Is It?. New York: F. Hallman & Oliphant Press. (1974-1-1).

  • Stovall, Floyd. The Foreground of Leaves of Grass. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. (1974-1-1).

  • Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. Horatio’s Boys; The Life and Works of Horatio Alger, Jr. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co. (1974-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. Cast Upon the Breakers. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday. (1974-1-1).

  • Morris, Lloyd R.. Incredible New York. Ayer Publishing. (1975-1-1).

  • Allen, Gay Wilson. The New Walt Whitman Handbook. New York: New York University Press. (1975-1-1).

  • Katz, Jonathan Ned. Gay American History : Lesbians and Gay Men in the U. S. A., a Documentary History. New York: Crowell. (1976-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. Hugo, the Deformed. Des Plaines, IL : G.K. Westgard II. (1978-1-1).

  • Whitman, Walt. Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks. New York: NYU. (1978-1-1).

  • Filler, Louis. Vanguards and Followers: Youth in the American Tradition. Burnham. (1979-1-1).

  • Martin, Robert K.. The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry. Austin: University of Texas Press. (1979-1-1).

  • Taylor, Joshua C.. Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder [catalogue of the exhibition]. Smithsonian Books. (1979-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Selected Letters. Boston: Twayne Publishers. (1979-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean and John Hay. John Hay-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of John Milton Hay and William Dean Howells, 1861-1905. Boston: Twayne Publishers. (1980-1-1).

  • Whitman, Walt. Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass. A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems. New York: NYU. (1980-1-1).

  • Meserve, Walter J.. American Drama to 1900: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale. (1980-1-1).

  • Keyes, Wilma. George Freeman: Miniaturist 1789-1868. Storrs, CT: Mansfield Historical Society. (1980-1-1).

  • O'Brien, Fitz-James. A Gentlemen from Ireland. New York: S. French. (1980-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. The Cooper's Ward. Gahanna, Ohio : B. Sawyer. (1981-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. The Gipsy Nurse. Gahanna, Ohio : B. Sawyer. (1981-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. Marie Bertrand. Gahanna, Ohio : B. Sawyer. (1981-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. Madeline, the Temptress. Gahanna, Ohio : B. Sawyer. (1981-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. Herbert Selden. Gahanna, Ohio : B. Sawyer. (1981-1-1).

  • Miller, Tice L.. Bohemians and Critics: American Theatre Criticism in the Nineteenth Century. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press. (1981-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. The Discarded Son. Gahanna, Ohio : B. Sawyer. (1981-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. The Secret Drawer. Gahanna, Ohio : B. Sawyer. (1981-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. Manson, the Miser. Gahanna, Ohio : B. Sawyer. (1981-1-1).

  • Alger, Horatio Jr.. The Mad Heiress. Gahanna, Ohio : B. Sawyer. (1981-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Novels, 1875-1886: William Dean Howells. New York: Literary Classics of the United States: Distributed to the trade by Viking Press. (1982-1-1).

  • Mankowitz, Wolf. Mazeppa: The Lives, Loves, and Legends of Adah Isaacs Menken. New York: Stein and Day. (1982-1-1).

  • Kesterson, David B.. Henry Wheeler Shaw. Detroit: Gale. (1982-1-1).

  • Henry Christman. Walt Whitman's New York. Lanham, MD: New Amsterdam. (1983-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Editor's Study: A Comprehensive Edition of W.D. Howell's Column. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Pub. Co. (1983-1-1).

  • Whitman, Walt. Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Volume II: Washington. New York: NYU. (1984-1-1).

  • Stoddard, Elizabeth. The Morgesons and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (1984-1-1).

  • Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers. (1984-1-1).

  • Stoddard, Elizabeth Barstow and Lawrence Buell and Sandra A. Zagarell. The Morgesons and Other Writings. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (1984-1-1).

  • Whitman, Walt. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Volume I: Family Notes and Autobiography Brooklyn and New York. New York: NYU. (1984-1-1).

  • Berthold, Dennis and Kenneth Price. Dear Brother Walt: Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman. Kent, OH: Kent State. (1984-1-1).

  • Karrenbrock, Marilyn H.. Horatio Alger, Jr. Detroit: Gale. (1985-1-1).

  • Scharnhorst, Gary and Jack Bales. The Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr. Bloomington: Indiana UP. (1985-1-1).

  • Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (1985-1-1).

  • Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.. The Saturday Press. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. (1986-1-1).

  • Sollors, Werner. Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York: Oxford. (1986-1-1).

  • Bolton, H. Philip. Dickens Dramatized. G. K. Hall. (1987-1-1).

  • Chase, Gilbert. America’s Music: from Pilgrims to the Present. Urbana: UP Illinois. (1987-1-1).

  • Charley Shively. Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working-Class Camerados. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press. (1987-1-1).

  • Hoppenstand, Gary. Fitz-James O'Brien. Detroit: Gale. (1988-1-1).

  • Jones, Eugene H.. Native Americans as Shown on the Stage, 1753-1916. Metuchen: Scarecrow. (1988-1-1).

  • D'Emilio, John and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. (1988-1-1).

  • Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Whitman's Poetry of the Body. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (1989-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Novels, 1886-1888: William Dean Howells. New York: Literary Classics of the United States: Distributed to the trade by Viking Press. (1989-1-1).

  • Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet. New York: Oxford University Press. (1989-1-1).

  • Greenspan, Ezra. Walt Whitman and the American Reader. New York: Cambridge University Press. (1990-1-1).

  • Foster, George G.. New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches. Berkeley: University of California Press. (1990-1-1).

  • Watters, David. Introduction. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. (1990-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. The Early Prose Writings of William Dean Howells, 1852-1861. Athens: Ohio University Press. (1990-1-1).

  • Moon, Michael. Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (1991-1-1).

  • Allen, Robert Clyde. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (1991-1-1).

  • Davis, Tracy C.. Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture. New York: Routledge. (1991-1-1).

  • Helms, Alan. Whitman's 'Live Oak, with Moss'. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. (1992-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. A Realist in the American Theatre: Selected Drama Criticism of William Dean Howells. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. (1992-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Selected Literary Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (1993-1-1).

  • Gold, Herbert,. Bohemia: Digging for the Roots of Cool. New York: Simon and Shuster. (1993-1-1).

  • Bercovitch, Sacvan. Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America. New York: Routledge. (1993-1-1).

  • Asselineau, Roger. When Walt Whitman Was a Parisian. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press. (1994-1-1).

  • Guarneri, Carl J.. The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America. Cornell, NY: Cornell University Press. (1994-1-1).

  • Doctorow, E. L.. The Waterworks. New York: Random House. (1994-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean and Lawrence Barrett. Staging Howells: Plays and Correspondence With Lawrence Barrett. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. (1994-1-1).

  • Dudden, Faye E.. Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870. New Haven: Yale University Press. (1994-1-1).

  • Montez, Lola. Merriam-Webster's Inc. (1995-1-1).

  • Rosenheim, Shawn and Stephen Rachman. The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (1995-1-1).

  • Cornwell, Neil. Gothic and its Origins East and West: Vladimir Odoevsky and Fitz-James O'Brien. Amsterdam : Rodopi. (1995-1-1).

  • Reynolds, David S.. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Knopf. (1995-1-1).

  • Reynolds, David. Politics and Poetry: Leaves of Grass and the Political Crisis of the 1850s. New York: Cambridge Univeristy Press. (1995-1-1).

  • Granqvist, Raoul. Imitation As Resistance: Appropriations of English Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. (1995-1-1).

  • Blaugrund, Annette. The Tenth Street Studio Building: Artist-Entrepreneurs from the Hudson River School to the American Impressionists. Southampton, NY: Parrish Art Museum. (1997-1-1).

  • Annette Blaugrund. The Tenth Street Studio Building: artist-entrepreneurs from the Hudson River School to the American impressionists. Parrish Art Museum. (1997-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. (1997-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean and Henry James. Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells. New York: Oxford University Press. (1997-1-1).

  • Schmidgall, Gary. Walt Whitman: A Gay Life. New York: Dutton. (1997-1-1).

  • Dulchinos, Donald P.. Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia. (1998-1-1).

  • Batterberry, Michael and Ariane Batterberry. On the Town in New York: The Landmark History of Eating, Drinking, and Entertainments from the American Revolution to the Food Revolution. Routledge. (1998-1-1).

  • Schanke, Robert A. and Kimberley Bell Marra. Passing Performances : Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (1998-1-1).

  • Horatio Alger. Gale Research. (1998-1-1).

  • Pannapacker, William A.. James R. Osgood. New York: Garland. (1998-1-1).

  • Renehan, Edward, Jr.. John Burroughs: An American Naturalist. New York: Black Dome Press. (1998-1-1).

  • Seymour, Bruce. Lola Montez: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press. (1998-1-1).

  • Stoddard, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Stoddard: An Anthology in Memorium (1823-1902). Bristol, IN: Bristol Banner Books. (1998-1-1).

  • Piscitelli, Felicia A.. Thomas Nast. Detroit: Gale. (1998-1-1).

  • Cornwell, Neil. Piracy and Higher Realism: The Strange Case of Fitz-James O'Brien and Vladimir Odoevsky. Providence: Berghahn Books. (1998-1-1).

  • Mullins, Maire. Beach, Juliette H. New York: Garland. (1998-1-1).

  • Georges Clemenceau. (1998-1-1).

  • Johnston, William R.. William and Henry Walters: The Reticent Collectors. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP. (1999-1-1).

  • Loving, Jerome. Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. Berkley Calif. : University of California Press. (1999-1-1).

  • Asselineau, Roger.. The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition. Iowa City: Universtiy of Iowa Press. (1999-1-1).

  • Morris, Roy Jr.. The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2000-1-1).

  • Starr, S. Frederick. Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. (2000-1-1).

  • Stansell, Christine. American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century. (2000-1-1).

  • Howells, William Dean. Pebbles, Monochromes, and Other Modern Poems, 1891-1916. Athens: Ohio University Press. (2000-1-1).

  • Hallock, John W. M.. The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. (2000-1-1).

  • Mullenix, Elizabeth Reitz. Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage. Palgrave Macmillan. (2000-1-1).

  • Twain, Mark. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. New York: HarperCollins. (2000-1-1).

  • Emerson, Everett. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (2000-1-1).

  • Wilson, Peter Lamborn. Stephen Pearl Andrews. Detroit: Gale. (2001-1-1).

  • Traubel, Horace. Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. (2001-1-1).

  • Katz, Jonathan Ned. Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (2001-1-1).

  • Nicholson, Virginia. Among the Bohemians : Experiments in Living 1900-1939. New York: William Morrow. (2002-1-1).

  • Sentilles, Renee M.. Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. (2003-1-1).

  • H. Daniel Peck. Introduction. New York: Barnes and Noble. (2003-1-1).

  • Warren, James Perrin. John Burroughs. Detroit: Gale. (2003-1-1).

  • Harris, Luther S.. Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (2003-1-1).

  • Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Barnes and Noble. (2003-1-1).

  • Stoddard, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Stoddard: Stories. Boston: Northeastern University Press. (2003-1-1).

  • Epstein, Daniel Mark. Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. (2004-1-1).

  • Giblin, James Cross. Good Brother, Bad Brother : The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth. New York: Clarion Books. (2005-1-1).

  • Folsom, Ed and Kenneth M. Price. Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work. Malden, MA: Blackwell. (2005-1-1).

  • Hayes, John Lord. The Solidarity of the Industries as Illustrated by the Relations of the Woollen Manufacture: An Address Delivered at the Fair of the American Institute. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library. (2005-1-1).

  • Reynolds, David S.. Walt Whitman. New York: Oxford University Press. (2005-1-1).

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