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Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Gilt facsimile signature of Thoreau on the front cover. Wrapped in mylar. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4." 382 pages, complete. Sixteen additional pages of advertisements of books published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in the back. This book is referenced in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) as no. 20127. Printed on copyright page: "The Riverside Press, Cambridge[, Massachusetts]: Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co." Former owner's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "Harvey C. Williams." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Minuscule rubbing and wear to the corners, edges, and head and tail of spine. A Very Good copy. This book is composed of extracts from Thoreau's journal. 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.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: American transcendentalist and abolitionist Henry D.Thoreau (1817-1862) achieved no material success in his lifetime, but his influence on Twentieth Century thought has been enormous. This is a Very Good copy of the first volume of the posthumous collection of his journals, to be followed by "Winter" (1888) and "Autumn" (1892. Edited by H.G.G. Blake, Thoreau's executor. First Edition. Green cloth binding, beveled; with reproduced author signature on the front cover; titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; 382 pages; with a sixteen page catalog in the rear.Top-edge is gilt; black endpapers. Two-page map of Concord precedes the Title Page. Small decorative bookseller label on the rear paste-down (nicely decorative!). Corners are bumped; rubbed around the margins. Head and foot of spine are rubbed with light fray. Fore-edge has some spotting but textblock is fine, with no foxing evident. A sound copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Thoreau, Henry David. SUMMER. Houghton Mifflin, 1884.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: SUMMER, Houghton Mifflin, 1884, first edition, some slight rubbing and wear to the corner tips, some fraying with a bit of cloth loss to the spine extremities, light rubbing to the bottom board edges, else a tight vg copy with unbroken inner hinges. 1/1,260 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Thoreau, Henry David. Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. Houghton Mifflin, 1884.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1884 on title page. Concord map present. No foxing, tanning or odor. Black endpapers with fine hinges. Exterior has 1/4" wear and tearing to cloth at head of spine. Some rubbing to cloth. No fading. Top edges gilt.
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.
Thoreau, Henry David. SUMMER: from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. , 1884.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Edited by H.G.O. Blake. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884. Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, which consisted of only 1260 copies (WALDEN, in comparison, consisted of 2000 copies). This was the second of Thoreau's four "seasons" to be posthumously published from his journal; EARLY SPRING had come out in 1881, and WINTER and AUTUMN (curiously out of order) would come out in 1888 and 1892 respectively. The frontispiece consists of a folding map of Concord, with the homes of R.W. Emerson and Nathl. Hawthorne highlighted (as well as Walden Pond). This is a bright copy, fine except for a little faint speckling on the front cover -- a common difficulty for this Thoreau binding. Borst A9.1.a.; Blanck 20127.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.