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Henry David Thoreau. Summer. T. Fisher Unwin, 1884.
Price: US$38.27 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1884. No Edition Remarks. 382 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut textblock edges. Frontis map is loose. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Marks overall. Gilt lettering is darkened.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Thoreau, Henry D. Blake, H. G. O. (editor). Summer. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1884.
Price: US$49.59 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards stained. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Map is missing. Series: The writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6. Physical Description:v, 382 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: Été.Massachusetts. Massachusetts Description and travel. Massachusetts Descriptions et voyages. Summer. Travel. summer (season). 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Thoreau, Henry D. Blake, H. G. O. (editor). Summer. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1884.
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards stained. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Map is missing. Series: The writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6. Physical Description:v, 382 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: Été.Massachusetts. Massachusetts Description and travel. Massachusetts Descriptions et voyages. Summer. Travel. summer (season). 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Henry D Thoreau Edited by H G O Blake. Summer. T Fisher Unwin, London, 1884.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good tight condition, owners label on front pastedown, name on free front end page, rough cut pages, age appropriate marks and discoloration, green boards, soiled/blotches on front board, scratch mark/rubbing to small section of spine.
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Henry D Thoreau. Summer from the Journal of Henry D Thoreau. T Fisher Unwin, 1884.
Price: US$70.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK edition, London title page as cancel with folding Concord map of 1852 attached.Clean green boards, gilt title to spine and front board, neat ex university library copy , label removal mark to spine, neat university blind stamp to lower title page, Blank security label to rear floral endpapers and 2 label removal marks to front free endpaper.v(i) 382 pages inc index, publishers catalogue dated 1884 at rear.Edited by HGO Blake
Seller: John Blanchfield, Leeds, United Kingdom
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. (8" x 5 1/2"). Green cloth. 382pp. Publishers' catalogue of New and recent books in rear of book. Folded map (tissue) of the map of the town of Concord as frontispiece. Front endpaper separating from book. Lacking half-title page. There is a small stain to the corner of the last ~ 50 or so pages, not effecting text. Bookseller description taped to back pastedown. Binding nice.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A small tear on spine, a few scratches, some dirty marks and wear on cover. Also a surface tear on down spine on inside of first page but content is fully atatched and fine to read.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
THOREAU, Henry David. Summer. From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. Edited by H.G.O. Blake. , 1884.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: THOREAU, Henry David. Summer. From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. Edited by H.G.O. Blake. Orig. cloth with a folding map of Concord, Mass., inserted at the front. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1884. First English edition consisting of sheets from the first American edition with a new title page. According to Francis H. Allen's bibliography of Thoreau (p. 26), the English edition was published in September, 1884. See BAL 20127. A very good copy. Scarce.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Second printing of 588 copies, completed about one month after the first, 520 of which were shipped to England where they were issued with a cancel title (according to BAL). 8vo, pp. v-[vi], 382, [32] (Unwin catalogue); inserted double-page map of Concord; moderate wear, first signature loose, but still attached, generally good and sound in original green cloth gilt, t.e.g. BAL 20127; Borst A9.1.a identifies this as an "English issue" of the first printing.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.