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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Henry D. Thoreau Biographical Sketch Reprinted from the Walden Edition of Thoreau's Writings. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1906.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Green paper stapled, xxxviii Note 1. 4 pgs ad for Thoreau as seen by other authors, rear cover. scarce. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: Open Door Books MABA, Bath, ME, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau volume I. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.

Price: US$25.59 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. Partially cracked at both hinges, pages secure. Age-toned, outer page edges stained. Cover scuffed, bumped corners, exposed boards. Cover light blue, rather than as pictured. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Seller: Booksavers of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau volume I. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.

Price: US$29.11 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Fair hardcover, no dustcover. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbings/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked but binding still intact. Bottom page ends show signs of dampness.There are a few corner bends. Previous owner's name inside cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, I: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, Boston / New York, 1906.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: Blue ribbed cloth, gilt letters on spine, 435 pp., 6 BW illus. The first book and travel narrative written by American author Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), outlining the boat trip he took with his brother John up into New Hampshire in 1839. Sadly, John died at a young age in 1842. This is the book Henry sequestered himself at Walden to write, from 1845-1847. Includes a stylized version of the classic Maxham daguerreotype portrait and six natural scenes as captured by photographer Herbert W. Gleason. Not the prettiest jewel in the box, but just fine and dandy inside. G- (Ex-art library and well worn, with i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pocket and card; outer spine has white numbers on it and is held together with clear tape; soil marks or spots on binding; pages are tanning only slightly.)

Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume VI: Familiar Letters. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.

Price: US$39.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. Cracked at front hinge and several places within, webbing exposed, pages secure. Lightly age-toned. Cove shelf worn. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Seller: Booksavers of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume VI: Familiar Letters. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.

Price: US$39.20 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Volume 6 only; cover lightly rubbed/soiled, spine lightly age-toned, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed/bumped; edges very faintly soiled, top edges gilt; crack along front interior hinge; endpapers unevenly age-toned, rear endpapers have minor foxing along hinge; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except as noted. Hard Cover. Good.

Seller: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.

TORREY, BRADFORD. THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, 1906.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES : GOOD HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET, EX LIBRARY BOOK WITH STAMPS, LABELS AND POCKETS, NAME ON FRONT FREE END PAPER, MINOR NICKS AND CREASES, OTHERWISE CLEAN PAGES, PROMPT SHIPPING WITH TRACKING, SM 8VO, 527PP.

Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. Excursions and Poems [volume 5 of the Walden Edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau]. Houghton Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press. Boston and New York, 1906.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. This is part of the Walden Edition of the Writings of Henry David Thoreau. This is volume 5, with volume number on the spine. 431 pages. Some pages uncut/unopened. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with photographs (with tissue guards). Very good condition. We have more than a dozen volumes from the Walden Edition (which has 20 volume in all) in other listings.

Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. Familiar Letters [volume 5 of the Walden Edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau]. Houghton Mifflin and Co. Boston. Riverside Press, 1906.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. This is part of the Walden Edition of the Writings of Henry David Thoreau. This is volume 6, with volume number on the spine. 460 pages. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with photographs (with tissue guards). Very good condition. We have more than a dozen volumes from the Walden Edition (which has 20 volume in all) in other listings.

Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.

Henry David Thoreau. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Concord Edition. Volume VIII. Summer. From Thoreau's Journal. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Single volume of the Concord edition. Volume VIII, Summer, from Thoreau's journals. With photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. Clean, bright, and unmarked, with rubbing to cloth at bottom front corner.

Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.

THOREAU (H.D.). THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU.:. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1906., 1906.

Price: US$1197.04 + shipping

Description: Walden Edition. 20 vols. With numerous photogravures by Mr. Herbert W. Gleason of scenes and objects described by Thoreau. original blue cloth. Top edges gilt. good.

Seller: SUBUN-SO BOOK STORE, ABAJ-ILAB, Tokyo, Japan

Thoreau, Henry D., Edited By Bradford Torrey. The Writings Of Henry David Thoreau. Walden Edition. 1906 (18 Of 20 Volumes Only).. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1906.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Blue Cloth, Spine Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. A Near Fine, Unmarked Bright And Clean But Incomplete Set, 1906 Copyright Dates And Dates On Title Pages, No Later Date, 18 Of 20 Volumes, Lacking Volumes Vii And Viii.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Thoreau Henry David. THE WRITINGS. Boston Houghton Mifflin and Co. 1906, 1906.

Price: US$1375.00 + shipping

Description: 20 volumes. Manuscript edition, signed by the publisher. Tall 8vo, full green buckram, spines with lettering labels as called for. A nice reading set of this highly important edition. This copy without manuscript.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU [20 Volumes]. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1906.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavos, 20 Volumes. In Good plus condition. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spines. Head edges of text blocks gilt. Boards have light rubbing and bumping to corners, bending to spine edges, and mild edge wear and shelf wear. Volume II has discoloration to spine. Text blocks have light age toning, slight foxing to some pages, bookplate on front paste downs, glue stains on front endpapers, and previous owner's name on rear endpaper. Volume IV and V have dark brown staining to tail edge, Volume VIII and IX have splitting to front interior hinge, and Volume XIII and XV have splitting to gutter after half title page. Shelved Room A Volume I: "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers" 435 pages, Volume II "Walden" 375 pages, Volume III "The Maine Woods" 364 pages, Volume IV "Cape Cod and Miscellanies" 489 pages, Volume V "Excursions and Poems" 431 pages, Volume VI "Familiar Letters and Index" 460 pages. Volume VII "Journal I" 488 pages, Volume VIII "Journal II" 505 pages, Volume IX "Journal III" 487 pages, Volume X "Journal IV" 495 pages, Volume XI "Journal V" 532 pages, Volume XII "Journal VI" 491 pages, Volume XIII "Journal VII" 527 pages, Volume XIV "Journal VIII" 468 pages, Volume XV "Journal IX" 503 pages, Volume XVI "Volume X" 511 pages, Volume XVII "Journal XI" 457 pages, Volume XVIII "Journal XII" 458 pages, Volume XIX "Journal XIII" 430 pages, Volume XX "Journal XIV" 459 pages. 1371673. Special Collections.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

THOREAU, Henry D.. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Walden Edition) [In Twenty Volumes]. Houghton Mifflin And Company/ The University Press Cambridge, Boston and New York, 1906.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition thus, with material not included in the 1893 Riverside edition. Twenty volumes. Edited by Bradford Torrey. Illustrated with photogravures by Herbert W. Gleason. Octavos. Simply and elegantly bound in finely ribbed blue cloth ruled in blind, with spine titling and topedge gilt. Early ink owner name on the front fly of Volumes II and VII, trifle rubbed (mostly confined to the spine ends), otherwise a bright, fine set with the gilt topedges bright. This 1906 edition is based upon the 1893 Riverside edition, with a new introduction and photogravures by Herbert W. Gleason. Consists of the following individual volumes: I. *A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers*; II. *Walden*; III. *The Maine Woods*; IV. *Cape Cod and Miscellanies*; V. *Excursions and Poems*; VI. *Familiar Letters* (edited by F. B. Sanborn); VII-XX. *Journal* (in 14 Volumes; edited by Bradford Torrey). A very handsome set.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862). The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906, 1906.

Price: US$2730.35 + shipping

Description: FINELY BOUND. Twenty volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 61cm). The Walden Edition. Handsomely bound in contemporary dark blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and ornate tooling to spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. All volumes illustrated with a frontispiece and occasional plates. Bookplate of A.J. Tullock to front pastedown of each volume, some gathers unopened, some light spotting to fore-edges. Binding shows well with just few small scuffs and surface gouges to a few volumes, very slight rubbing to joints and corners. Very good.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1906.

Price: US$3750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The Manuscript Edition, limited to six hundred copies, complete in twenty volumes, here offered with Sanborn's The Life of Henry David Thoreau. Together twenty-one octavo volumes in dark green three-quarter crushed morocco. Spines with raised bands and heavily gilt in compartments. Dual frontispieces to each volume as well as numerous photogravure plates, some tinted, and with captioned tissue guards. This set lacks the manuscript leaf or leaves originally bound into volume one. Light wear to a few spine tips; one volume with a half-inch chip to the leather surface. Spines uniformly mellowed to brown except for volume two, which maintains much of its original green color, having probably resided for decades behind a post. Light flaking to a few joints. An impressive, near-fine set.

Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. The writings of Henry David Thoreau. Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1906.

Price: US$9375.00 + shipping

Description: Manuscript Edition, limited to 600 sets (this is no. 387), signed by the publishers, containing a leaf of Thoreau's manuscript, written in ink on both sides; the entire text concerns apples, portions of which appeared in his essay, "Wild Apples." 20 volumes, 8vo, portraits and numerous plates throughout after photographs by Herbert Gleason. In original green buckram, paper labels on spines; lacking the rare printed dust-jackets, with the buckram cracked along 2 or 3 joints, some chipping at the tops of 5 or 6 spines, 1 label slightly abraded, a few leaves in volume 11 carelessly opened, spines uniformly sunned, occasional light pencil annotation in the Journals; but on the whole, the set looks pretty presentable as it sits on the shelf, and the leaf of manuscript with a neat and imperceptible reinforcement at the fold, otherwise fine. Allen, p. 52; BAL 20145; Borst B3. BAL notes that vols. I-V are reprints, but vols. VI-XX contain material not published before, and represent the first complete edition of the Journals.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry D.. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Manuscript Edition. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1906.

Price: US$10750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Twenty Volumes. Publisher's green buckram with printed paper spine labels. The spines are faded to tan with a spot of darkening at the foot of several of the volumes. There is an occasional spot of discoloration or minor patch of bubbling to the cloth, else this is a Near Fine set. There is a previous owner bookplate on each of the front pastedowns else, internally, the books are Fine. One of 600 sets, this being number 538, signed by the publisher on the limitation leaf, and with an inlaid LEAF OF MANUSCRIPT in Thoreau's hand inserted at the front of the First Volume. The manuscript leaf is from a draft of the essay 'A Yankee in Canada,' and consists of 28 lines written in ink with penciled corrections. Borst B3.

Seller: Clarel Rare Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1906.

Price: US$15000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Vol.I: A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Biographical sketch by R. W. Emerson. Vol.II: Walden. Vol.III: The Maine Woods. Vol.IV: Cape Cod and miscellanies. Vol.V: Excursions and poems. Vol.VI: Familiar letters edited by F. B. Sanborn. Enlarged edition; General index. Vol.VII-XX: Journal edited by Bradford Torrey. No.355 of 600 signed [by Houghton Mifflin Co.] and numbered. Eight-page Prospectus laid in. Green buckram, the covers beginning to fade, the spines now uniformly tan. Printed paper spine labels intact but those for Vols.VII and XIII with partial water stains. All illustrations and guard sheets intact. Text blocks partly uncut. The manuscript leaf, written on both sides, tipped into Vol.1, is from the text of his "What Shall It Profit" lecture; pencil and interlined ink revisions for "Life Without Principle". The printed version of this is in "Reform Papers" (Princeton edition, 1973, pp.156-7. ). Vol.I with bookplate of Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870-1935). His library was dispersed in 13 sales in 1938 and 1939. Size: 22.9cm. 20 Vols.

Seller: Barberry Hill Books, West Newbury, MA, U.S.A.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1906.

Price: US$15000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Twenty (20) volumes in half green morocco over mottled boards with matching endpapers. Spines with pleasing floral gilt decoration. Top edges gilt. Edition limited to 600 copies only, each with a page in the first volume ( written both sides) from Thoreau's journal in his own hand. The subject of these pages seems to be the Moon and Aurora Borealis.Also signed by publisher. This is copy #94. Each volume has colour frontis and gravure as well as additional gravures from photos in the text. Leather has faded to brown on spines but not unattractively. Edgewear to extremities but o/w a near fine set and rare thus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1906.

Price: US$16000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: COMPLETE EDITION OF THOREAU'S WORKS WITH TWO-PAGE MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN THOREAU'S HAND. IN ORIGINAL LEATHER BINDINGS. In 1906, Thoreau's complete writings were published by Houghton Mifflin in a unique "Manuscript Edition". The first volume in each set contains an original leaf from Thoreau's autograph manuscript mounted and tipped-in before the title page and frontispiece. What also sets this edition apart from previous collections of Thoreau's writings is that it contains his entire Journal in fourteen volumes which had recently been edited and published by Bradford Torrey. The present manuscript leaf appears to be a draft from his Journal entries of October 1858 at Walden, for a section titled "The Colors of the Oaks". Thoreau describes the autumnal changes in foliage, noting how the leaves of various white and black oaks are fading or deepening in hue. "Many leaves of the small white oaks have turned to a dull crimson -almost salmon color", he writes, which later becomes "the next most uniformly reddish, a peculiar dull crimson (or salmon?) red, are the white oaks" (vol. XVII: Journal XI, p. 211). The text of the manuscript leaf varies quite considerable from the published text of his journals as printed as Vol. XVII of the Manuscript Edition, and the leaf includes some interlinear pencil emendations. THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Manuscript edition, no. 80 of 600 copies. Octavo (5¾ x 8¾ in; 14.6 x 22.2 cm), 20 volumes. Frontispieces and photogravure plates by Herbert W. Gleason, each volume of the leather-bound set has two frontispieces in colour and a coloured carbon photograph of a flower; two-page autograph manuscript from Thoreau's journals tipped into vol. 1. Publisher's original binding, three-quarter green levant Morocco over yellow-green Morris paper boards, matching Morris paper endpapers, top-edge gilt, floral and stellar motifs tooled to spine along with series and volume titles. Uncut and partially unopened; some scuffing to spines and corners; closed tear at the centre fold of the autograph leaf. A beautiful set.

Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1906.

Price: US$18500.00 + shipping

Description: The manuscript edition of the writings of Henry David Thoreau. With the original manuscript sheet by Thoreau from his journal tipped-in to volume 1. The two page manuscript fragment comprises 58 lines from "Autumnal Tints," in altered form, published in the Atlantic Monthly, October 1862, and collected in Excursions the following year. The fragment concludes with the line containing the title phrase: "When you come to observe faithfully the changes of each humblest plant, you find that each has sooner or later its peculiar autumnal tint, or tints [.]." Octavo, 20 volumes. Bound in the publisher's three-quarter green morocco over marbled boards, spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Signed by the publisher. Illustrated in each volume with a photograph of flowers and a hand-colored scenes used as frontispieces and additional plates inserted throughout. In fine condition without wear. Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and Yankee attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

THOREAU, Henry David. THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU [WORKS] with a leaf of manuscript. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1906.

Price: US$18750.00 + shipping

Description: Large octavo (6" x 8-3/4"), 20 volumes, the first volume in publisher's 3/4 green morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spine, the remaining 19 volumes in 3/4 green morocco leather with different gilt-lettered and decorated spines. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece in two states, one hand-colored, as well as additional gravures after photographs by Herbert Gleason. The first volume is copy #119 of 600 numbered sets SIGNED by the publisher; the remaining 19 volumes are from set 561. The first volume with an inlaid leaf of Thoreau's original holograph manuscript written on both sides of the sheet. The two-page manuscript fragment, detached and laid in loosely, comprises 55 lines, from Chapter 2 of CAPE COD, "Stage-coach Views" (first published in June of 1855 in PUTNAM'S MONTHLY, Vol. V, No. xxx, pages 637–640), in altered form with extensive pencil annotations and corrections. In part: "For the first half of the Cape large blocks of stone are found, here and there, mixed with the sand, but for the last thirty miles 'it is rare to meet with boulders or even gravel.' Hitchcock conjectures that the ocean has in course of time eaten out Boston Harbor and other bays in the mainland, and that the minute fragments have been deposited by currents at a distance from the shore, and formed this sand bank which we call Cape Cod. That is Hitchcock's account of it. For the most part above the sand, if the surface is subjected to chemical or even in some places to agricultural tests, there is found to be a thin layer of soil gradually diminishing from Barnstable to Truro, where it ceases; but there are many holes and rents in this weather-beaten garment not likely to be stitched in time, which reveal the naked flesh of the Cape, and its extremity is completely bare." Thoreau manuscript material is increasingly scarce and more expensive to obtain, nearly always found as it is here, bound into the Manuscript Edition. BAL 20145: This edition marks the first printing of Thoreau's entire Journal. Manuscript leaf detached and laid in loosely. Spines of 19 volumes evenly sunned to a light tan; very minor wear. Near Fine

Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.

Henry David Thoreau. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Manuscript Edition. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906.

Price: US$19500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: The Works of Henry David Thoreau Manuscript Edition Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906 Set No. 110 of 600 20 volumes. Near fine condition. Contains a tipped in, double-sided page from Thoreau's Journal with draft sections from his later famed essay, "Life Without Principle". Signed by Publisher Houghton Mifflin. Three quarter leather with marbled cloth covers. Except for Volumes XIV - XX, spines are slightly sunfaded but remain crisp, clean and brightly readable. Volumes XIV - XX appear to have been in a less sun-exposed spot as their spines retain original leather darkness. This is a matched set, all from Set 110. Manuscript Transcription: It is the stalest repetition [referring to the news of the day]. These facts appear to float in the atmosphere, insignificant as the sporules of fungi & impinge on some neglected thallus or surface of my mind which affords a basis for them- & hence a parasitic growth. We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Methinks I should hear with indifference if a trustworthy messenger were to inform me that the sun drowned himself last night. [Journal entry for 7 March 1862, slightly amended. Vol. VIII, page 341.] It is commonly said that history is history of war, but it is at the same time a history of development. Savage nations- any of our Indian tribes, for instance- would have enough stirring incidents in their annals, wars and murders enough, surely, to make interesting anecdotes without end, such a chronicle of startling and monstrous events as fill the daily papers and suit the appetite of barrooms; but the annals of such a tribe do not furnish the materials for history. [ Journals entry for 29 July, 1852. Vol. X, page 267.] The last 2 weekly papers I have not looked at. I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live & move & have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire, - thinner than the paper on which it is printed- then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plain, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them. [Journal entry for 3 April 1853, slightly amended. Volume XI, page 87.] C. says If you have been to the P.O. once you are damned. But I answer that it depends somewhat on whether you get a letter or not. If you do not get a letter there is some hope for you. [Journal entry for 22 April 1862, slightly amended. Volume IX, page 456.] More photos available on request.

Seller: Barrow Bookstore, Concord, MA, U.S.A.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID.. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Manuscript Edition. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906, 1906.

Price: US$20000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition; twenty volumes; publisher's 3/4 green morocco; raised bands; gilt spine decoration; top edges gilt. Spines sunned slightly to brown; very minor occasional wear; an excellent set. One of 600 numbered copies with a manuscript leaf bound in. For the most part, the publisher provided leaves from Thoreau's Journals, the source and notes for his published work. However this particular leaf is exceptional. For one thing, Thoreau's last name appears twice in his hand (in the body of the leaf). For another, more important point, this leaf, about two hundred words in ink, with minor additions and marks in pencil, is apparently a draft of the work he is best-known for, Walden. Analysis strongly suggests that, rather than adapting a page from his Journals (as ordinarily expected), it appears to be an actual draft (likely from Draft C, as delineated in Howarth's 1974 publication The Literary Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau), describing Colonel Quoil, a resident himself of Walden Woods, who passed away shortly after Thoreau's arrival. The author's presence there was brief, but memorable, influential, and enduring. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854); with a manuscript leaf from Thoreau's memoirs bound in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906). Ticknor & Fields; Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston; Boston and New York, 1906.

Price: US$22000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL WORK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM THOREAU'S MEMOIRS. First published in a run of two-thousand copies in Thoreau's native Massachusetts, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854) synthesises the thematic core of the Transcendentalist movement: a simple life with immediate connection to the natural world. During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Thoreau cloistered himself in a cabin built by himself within the acreage of Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland in Concord, Massachusetts. From this isolated sojourn emerged Thoreau's most prolific work, which encapsulates his ideas on self-reliance and humankind's relationship with nature. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer," writes Thoreau, continuing, "Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." (Walden, p. 348). At the turn of the century and following the author's death in 1862, Thoreau's collected works were published in twenty volumes by Houghton Mifflin. The project including a limited run of highly sought-after Manuscript Editions-which contained a leaf from Thoreau's manuscripts mounted and bound into the first volume of each set. The present copy is one such first volume, and its leaf constitutes an excerpt in Thoreau's hand from his posthumously-published 1866 memoir A Yankee in Canada. The work details his travels in Montreal and the present passage, from the chapter "The Walls of Quebec", describes his encounter with a Scots emigré in Quebec as they walk from a barrack along the famous walls of the city. A Yankee in Canada documented the only excursion Thoreau made outside of the United States, with this particular passage featuring a conversation with an individual he meets there, thus providing a thematic counterpoint to the hermitic life recorded in Walden-as attested by the timeless line "I want the flower and fruit of a man" (Walden, p. 83). Another insight offered by this unique holograph of A Yankee in Canada concerns how Thoreau modulates his celebrated style natural observation to a mode of recounting human interaction. "Thus being naturally drawn together", he pens while recalling how he meets the Scots-Canadian, whereas the authorised editions of the work read, "being thus mutually drawn together" (A Yankee in Canada, p. 75). The alteration is slight, and whether it is an authorial emendation or one from an editor is uncertain. But, of the two word, "naturally" better reflects Thoreau's sensibilities towards the certain idées fixes which inspired much of his literary engagement with the Transcendental movement: environmentalism and natural history. Yet, with "mutually" Thoreau perhaps affords a closer, more sympathetic bond to the stranger in contrast to the relationships he forages with the environment, recognising in a fellow human motivations better described as mutual than natural. THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. First edition. Octavo. [ii], 357, [7], 8 (advertisements dated June 1854); original sepia cloth with gilt spine and boards stamped in blind, custom presentation box. Cancelled bookplate of Universalist Sabbath School. Inscribed: "Beatrice Criss Cullum". Bottom page creased with misaligned type on p. 50; some foxing; tear in the margin of one leaf (p. 69/70), light wear to spine ends, stab-holes visible through cloth. Exceptionally well-preserved copy of a book difficult to find in collectible edition and with unrestored, original cloth. GrolierAmerican63. with THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Manuscript edition, no. 307 of 600. Tall octavo, xlvii, 435 pp.; first of twenty volumes (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers). Frontispiece portrait of Thoreau in daguerreotype. Original sage pebble cloth with paper label. With a manuscript leaf from Thoreau's diaries mounted on

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THOREAU Henry David. Writings. , 1906.

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Description: "THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Twenty volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter brown crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, top edges gilt, uncut. $37,500.Manuscript Edition, beautifully bound and illustrated, limited to 600 copies, with manuscript leaf from Walden (two sides) entirely in Thoreau’s hand.Each set in this important limited edition includes a Thoreau manuscript leaf mounted and bound into the first volume. The leaf in this set is from the chapter entitled "Baker Farm" from Walden, Thoreau's masterwork. The leaf reads, in large part: "[If it had] lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and life. As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared that the shadows of some Irishmen before him had no halo about them, that it was only natives that were so distinguished " (See Volume II, p. 224). The verso of the leaf is from an earlier section of this chapter. It reads, again in part: [I know but one small] grove of sizable trees left in Concord, supposed to have been planted by the pigeons that were once baited with beechnuts near by; it is worth the while to see the silver grain sparkle when you split this wood; the bass; the hornbeam; the Celtis occidentalis, or false elm, of which we have but one well-grown; some taller mast of a pine, a shingle tree, or a more perfect hemlock than usual " (See Volume II, p. 224). "Thoreau's Walden occupies a special place in our American heritage. Moreover, the book is still alive and vibrant, and it reaches out to touch the life of each one of us who is receptive it has come to be thought a central document in the American experience " (Thorpe, Treasures of the Huntington Library). "Solid chunks of thought, in the midst of a solid chunk of nature, proving that the minimum of cash expenditure and of creature comfort may result in the maximum of acute observation and celebration—for almost a hundred years an inspiration to nature-lovers, to philosophers, to sociologists and to persons who love to read the English language written with clarity" (Grolier, 100 Influential American Books 63). This beautiful set also contains a foldout map of Concord, reproductions of Thoreau's journal illustrations, and over 100 tissue-guarded illustrations, several beautifully hand-finished in color. Number 476 of 600 sets, signed by the publisher on the limitation page. Boswell & Crouch 1721. BAL 20145. Borst A20.1.a. Owner signature and stamp in each volume.Fine condition. A beautiful set, with exceptional and valuable manuscript leaf from Walden."

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