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Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: 141 p. Dampstain. Title page torn without loss. 165mm. Virtually disbound. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. First edition. "James Bradley Thayer (1831-1902) was a Boston attorney, legal scholar, and professor at Harvard University. He had business dealings with Emerson and was one of a party of twelve who, with Emerson, went in a private Pullman car from Boston to California, and travelled there for several weeks, in 1871. Thayer wrote a number of diary-like letters to his wife while on the trip which later formed the basis for this account. This book also contains the letter that Thayer had written to the Boston 'Daily Advertiser' in which he attempts to clarify the response to a recent (1883) Boston lecture on Emerson given by Matthew Arnold." - From a description by Riverrow Book Shop. BAL p.68. TRAVEL BX 2 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Boston: Little, Brown, 1884. First edition. Original white printed wrappers, green printed dust jacket, 141 pp. Thayer was related to Emerson by marriage. First gathering almost loose. Endpapers cracked. Jacket chipped with 10% lost, the remainder pasted to a recent, matching sheet. A Fair copy.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
James Bradley Thayer. A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson. Little, Brown, and Company, 1884.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Softcover with DJ. Gray DJ with black lettering on front cover. White cover, silver lettering on front. Title page and copyright page dated 1884. 141 pages. DJ paper is fragile and brittle. Front flap snapped off but tucked inside. Open and closed tears towards top and bottom edges as well as along the spine of the DJ. DJ faded. Minor tearing along front and back attached end papers. Spine loose but all pages attached. Good condition. Pages clean and unmarked with deckled edge. Scarce gray DJ. Author's note on pages 5 through 7 about their time spent with Ralph Waldo Emerson in the Spring of 1871. Please contact us with questions or if youd like to see photographs.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. G/FR. 1884. First Edition. Wraps. Original plain wrappers and printed jacket. James Bradley Thayer (1831-1902) was a Boston attorney, legal scholar, and professor at Harvard University. He had business dealings with Emerson and was one of a party of twelve who, with Emerson, went in a private Pullman car from Boston to California , and travelled there for several weeks, in 1871. Thayer wrote a number of diary-like letters to his wife while on the trip which later formed the basis for this account. This book also contains the letter that Thayer had written to the Boston 'Daily Advertiser' in which he attempts to clarify the response to a recent (1883) Boston lecture on Emerson given by Matthew Arnold. BAL p.68 . 16mo., 141pp., Wraps fragil, yellowed, stained and frayed with torn & chipped spine, pulled away from text at front hinge, still attached at rear; cracked with edge tears and waterstained & yellowed margins, small booksellers label (W. B. Clarke & Carruth, Boston) .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
James Bradley Thayer. A WESTERN JOURNEY WITH MR. EMERSON. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1884.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 12mo in publisher's cloth. 141 pp. VG. Moderate edge wear; light rubbing to boards. Binding is strong. Name stamped on title page and Emerson's poem "The Poet" pasted to the back of the front flyleaf. Text is clean.
Seller: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's card wrappers in grey printed dust jacket; 141pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled and extremities toned and rather brittle due to inferior paper stock, flap folds starting to split, two small chips at top edge of rear panel, else a Very Good or better copy in a Very Good copy of the rare jacket. Travel diary kept by Thayer during a journey by rail from Boston to California with a group that included Emerson. With an early chapter devoted to Salt Lake City and its LDS citizens. FLAKE 8890.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.