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Thoreau, Henry David; Sanborn, F. B. (editor). The Service. Charles E. Goodspeed, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Exlibrary, usual marks and pocket; rebound in brown cloth library bindings with brown tape covering spine; white titles hand-printed on spine; binding solid; covers very scuffed and worn; rubbed through at all corners and along edges; internally good; some smudging and foxing; pages water-stained at upper corners; limited number of pencil markings, mostly underlining in Introduction. Limited Edition # 438/500.
Seller: Indy Library Store, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo (24.5 x 15 cm). xi, 31, [1] pages. Original cream cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. Limited edition, number 273 of 500 copies, printed on French hand-made paper (from an edition of 520). Printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. BAL 20138; Smith, Merrymount Press, #138. Spine soiled, some soiling to boards, endleaves lightly spotted
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Thoreau, Henry David. The Service. Charles E. Goodspeed, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, #110 of 500 copies. xi, 31, [1] pp. 8vo (24.5 x 15 cm). BAL 20138; Smith, Merrymount Press, #138 Quarter cloth and green boards. Bookplate. VG xi, 31, [1] pp. 8vo (24.5 x 15 cm)
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Thoreau, Henry David. The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn. Charles E. Goodspeed, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: No. 244 of 500 copies. [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 20138; Smith, Merrymount Press, #138; Quarter jaapn vellum and boards, paper title label. VG [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Thoreau, Henry David (F.B. Sanborn, ed.). The service. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Description: Backstrip slightly sun-darkened; top cover corners slightly sprung; bleed-through adhesive stains at edges of pastedown endpapers; a little foxing on preliminary blanks; rear cover faintly scuffed; otherwise very good condition. . 30p. No. 46 of an edition of 500. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press.
Seller: Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Henry David Thoreau. The Service. Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book description: Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, 1902. This is the FIRST PUBLICATION of THE SERVICE, an ESSAY Thoreau wrote circa 1840 for the Dial. Margaret Fuller, the first female American book reviewer in journalism and a Transcendentalist like Thoreau, thought the essay too imperious in tone to suit her. A limited first edition, no. 345 of 500 copies. 8vo.(31pp.),uncut. Spine tight, minor ageing, pages clean. Boards and dust jacket are faintly designed (upon close examination.) Previous owner name and date on first endpage and appears to be original owner. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Over the years the dj endflaps have detached and spine perished but, the jacket has done a remarkable job of keeping the boards clean and unmarked. An excellent addition for the serious "rare classics" collector.
Seller: Running Man, Virginia Beach, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: No. 458 of 500 copies. [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was one of the founders of the Guild of Bookworkers in November, 1906. BAL 20138; Smith, Merrymount Press, #138; Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 pp. 179-180 Contemporary tan pigskin, ruled in blind, boards with a central field bordered in blind and semé with gold dots, a.e.g. Front board detached [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Henry David Thoreau; F. B. Sanborn [editor]. The Service. Charles E. Goodspeed, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 25 x 15 cm. xi (3) 31pp. Bound in grey boards with paper title label to spine. Limited to 20 copies printed on Japan paper by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, this being copy number 20 and is signed by the publisher, C. E. Goodspeed. Some soiling ot the top of the boards. Some rubbing to the spine label. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Rubbing to corners of the boards. Believed to have been written around 1840, the essay was not published for the first time until after Thoreau's death.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.