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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Encuadernación del editor, con una firma de anterior propietario. Buen ejemplar
Seller: Librería Linardi y Risso, MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Original green cloth, gilt spine. A few spots on outer hinges worn through, inner hinges starting but sound. Wear and some chipping at head and heel, small closed tear. Minor foxing to endpapers and title page. Still a good+ copy. Gilt on spine is bright. Thin clip from old bookseller's catalog tacked onto inside of rear board, offering the book for 2.50. This work, published posthumously, is distinguished for containing the first book publication of "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle," Thoreau's two most famous essays, as well as all of his major political writings. First printing of @1500 copies. With signature of George A. Fay on front endpaper. Likely George Austin Fay (1838-1916)known as George A. Fay ? of Meriden, Conn. Born in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Mass. Republican. Lawyer; Freemason and member of Connecticut state senate.
Seller: Mythos Center Books, Frontenac, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, [i-iv], 1-286 pages. In Fair condition. Bound in wavy-patterned green cloth with gilt text on spine. Boards have moderate rubbing to corners, tearing to spine edges, and moderate shelf wear. Binding is loose with cocking to spine. Text block has heavy splitting to interior hinges, leaves between front pastedown and title page missing, color transfer from front pastedown to title page, mild foxing to most pages, and light damp staining on pages 121 to 265. Shelved Room A. BAL 20117 Binding A. 1370605. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: Thoreau, Henry David. A YANKEE IN CANADA, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866) FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY AS IT Includes the first general appearance of "Civil Disobedienceâ. This title contains a five chapter work âA Yankee in Canadaâ based on several brief trips Thoreau made from 1849 to 1853. It was during these years that his primary residence was at Walden. The second half of the book is a series of 11 essays called the âAnti-Slavery and Reform Essaysâ. They include a plea for John Brown, an essay on Wendell Phillips address to the Lyceum Society in Concord, and most importantly the first public printing of his essay âCivil Disobedienceâ, originally given as a sermon in 1849. âCivil Disobedienceâ was written after Thoreau spent a day in prison for refusal to pay a poll tax supporting the Mexican War. Thoreau considered the war to be an unethical land grabbing scheme to increase the size and number of the southern slave-holding states. His article stresses the influence of passive resistance as a form of political protest. This essay has had a profound influence on the American psyche from the Civil War to the Vietnam era and beyond. It was revered by both Gandhi and Martin Luther King who credited it with giving them their first introduction to the philosophy of non-violent social action.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 vo. Octavo. [4] 286 pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, BAL binding A. Blindstamped wreaths on covers with borders. Gilt spine titles with "Author of Walden." Brown coated endpapers. Brown, slightly plum, C cloth. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean with minor wear to lower front corner, wear to spine head with some chips/slight loss. Spine is moderately sunned. Binding tight. Text is clean and bright with no markings. Bookplate of an earlier collector on front pastedown, printed with a scene of a woman on a porch, a book on her lap and sailboats in the distance. BAL 20177. Phil. Rare. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Wrapped in mylar. 5" x 7 1/2." 286 pages, complete. Referenced in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), no. 20117: State "A" of the binding. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is Fine. Some weakness to the front joint and light cracking to the back joint. Very faint dampstaining in the lower-right corners of the pages, barely, if it all, affecting text. There is a chip in the lower of one of the back flyleaves. A Fine copy. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American author, naturalist, abolitionist, and philosopher. Thoreau is best-known for his poems and essays. Many of his writings interweave themes of nature and philosophy. This book has two sections, "A Yankee in Canada" and "Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers."
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1125.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in modern half dark green morocco leather and marbled boards with matching morocco corners with new endpapers. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Edited by Sophia Thoreau. Distinguished for its containing, in addition to the title piece, the first book publication of "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle," Thoreau's two most famous essays, as well as all of his major political writings. "Civil Disobedience" influenced, among others, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. who cited it as his first intellectual contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Internally Fine in a Fine, attractive binding
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [iv], 286 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Includes the first appearance in a volume of Thoreau's writings of "Civil Disodedience," which, "through its impact on Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., the anti-Nazi movement in Europe in the 1940s, and anti-Vietnam War protesters in the 1970s, has had a wider political influence than any other American literary document" (ANB). BAL 20117; Borst A 7.1.a; Allen, 22-23; Downs, Books That Changed America 8 Bound in publisher's zigzag textured green cloth. Ex-libris of J.A. Perkins Jr., Montreal. Front inner hinge tender, light rubbing to spine ends. Very good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in publisher's original green cloth, stamped in blind on the front board and gilt titles on the spine. BAL 20117. One of 1546 copies. A Very Good+ copy with a few short tears to the cloth at the crown and a pencil owner's name and address on the rear end paper. An excellent copy internally. After Henry David Thoreau's 1862 death, the Boston publishers Ticknor and Fields, who had published Walden, gathered together and published a collection of Thoreau's essays. The majority of the essays in A Yankee in Canada outline Thoreau's commitment to social reform, especially Thoreau's abolitionist work. Slavery in Massachusetts as well as A Plea for Captain John Brown appear here. But the most famous and influential of Thoreau's essays included in this title is Civil Disobedience. This landmark essay was previously published with the title Resistance to Civil Government in Elizabeth Peabody's Aesthetic Papers, but it appears in the present volume with the title that encapsulates one of its central arguments: how civil disobedience can be a just response to governmental tyranny. An important collection of influential essays from a profound American thinker. Very Good +.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, binding "A" dark plum-brown publisher's textured cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, chocolate-colored endpapers; spine lightly sun-faded, 1/8 inch chip at top of spine; the front free endpaper has been glued to the front pastedown, with the early private library bookplate "Egbert L. Bangs" on verso ffep [which now serves as the front pastgedown]; otherwise clean tight and unmarked internally Fine condition, very minor rubs to corners of boards, no cracking to inner or outer joints; a very nice copy with noted faults
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition in original plum cloth, spine lettering and decoration in gilt, wreath decoration stamped with borders in blind on boards, dark brown end pages, 286 pp. Very Good Plus, spine lightened from sun, gilt lettering a bit dulled yet quite legible, small fray top edge of spine, scattered light foxing. A tight, square copy of this Thoreau classic, uncommon in such lovely condition. Contains his important essay "Civil Disobedience", (originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government" ), which has served as a call to action and inspired generations ever since. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A YANKEE IN CANADA WITH ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM PAPERS Thoreau, Henry David Published by Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866 Very Fine First edition. 1st Edition. First Edition, binding "A" dark plum-brown publisher's textured cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, Brown surface paper ends, One of 1546 BAL 20117. This copy Housed in a green chemise and slipcase appears to have never been read, a slight fading of the spine and the gilt is still unusually very bright, not damage to the inner joints of the original brown endpapers. If there is a copy that is to be owned and treasured for its condition and content it has to be this one in near perfect condition. "A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers" is a collection of essays and writings by the American transcendentalist author Henry David Thoreau. It was published posthumously in 1866 by Ticknor and Fields, a Boston-based publishing firm. The collection includes a travel narrative, "A Yankee in Canada," as well as various essays on topics such as anti-slavery and social reform. The title essay, "A Yankee in Canada," documents Thoreau's journey to Canada in the 1850s. Thoreau was known for his love of nature and his philosophical reflections, and this work combines his observations of the Canadian landscape with his thoughts on the cultural and political differences between the United States and Canada. The collection also includes essays related to Thoreau's activism, particularly his anti-slavery stance. Thoreau was a strong advocate for civil disobedience and resistance to unjust laws, as famously expressed in his essay "Civil Disobedience." This collection likely includes some of his writings on these themes. Thoreau's works are often associated with transcendentalism, a philosophical and literary movement that emerged in the 19th century in the United States. Transcendentalists emphasized the inherent goodness of people and nature, as well as the importance of self-reliance and individual intuition. "A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers" provides readers with insights into Thoreau's views on various social and political issues of his time, making it a valuable addition to his body of work. Thoreau's writings continue to be studied and appreciated for their intellectual depth, poetic prose, and exploration of themes that remain relevant today.
Seller: E.C. Rare Books., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$17500.00 + shipping
Description: Original green cloth, stamped in gilt, and blind, extremities slightly rubbed, extreme corner of front endpaper chipped, but a very good bright copy, in the "A" binding described by BAL, which is more ornate than the other two bindings. A rare Thoreau family copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Charles Lowell / with the love / of S. E. Thoreau". Charles Lowell of Bangor, Maine, was a cousin by marriage of Henry & Sophia. Aunt Nancy Thoreau married Caleb Callender Billings in 1810. Their first child, Mary Ann Thoreau Billings (1810-1888), married Charles Lowell (1807-1895), a Bangor merchant, in 1834. Following the wishes of her older brother, Sophia Elizabeth Thoreau edited a number of his papers both with him (as he lay dying) and after his death. That she was the sole editor of the collection of papers in Yankee has been established by recent scholarship. (See Kathy Fedorko, "âHenry's Brilliant Sister': The Pivotal Role of Sophia Thoreau in Her Brother's Posthumous Publications," The New England Quarterly, June 2016, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 222-256). "Thoreau agreed to educator Elizabeth Peabody's request to publish the lecture he had written on his refusal to pay the poll tax in her new periodical, Aesthetic Papers, where it appeared in 1849 under the title "Resistance to Civil Government." However, the periodical was a failure, and Thoreau's essay went virtually unnoticed. It was not until long after the essay's posthumous republication in 1866 under the title "Civil Disobedience" that it was acclaimed as a classic manifesto, advocating a citizen's responsibility to follow his or her conscience when it differs from the laws of the state."Civil Disobedience," through its impact on Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., the anti-Nazi movement in Europe in the 1940s, and anti-Vietnam War protesters in the 1970s, has had a wider political influence than any other American literary document. In Walden Thoreau wrote, "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book." Walden and "Civil Disobedience" have been just such works", American National Biography. This work contains, besides the the travel narrative which is the title work, the first book publication of Thoreau's two most famous essays "Civil Disobedience", and "Life Without Principle", all of his major political writings, and one work, "Prayers" which is actually by Ralph Waldo Emerson. From the library of William E. Stockhausen, sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974. BAL 20117; Borst A7.1.a.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.