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Editore: A Doubleday Anchor Book/Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, NY, 1973
ISBN 10: 0385095031ISBN 13: 9780385095037
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Libro
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Rolf Bruderer (Cover Design) (illustratore). Anchor Books Edition. 280 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Pencil and pen markings throughout text. Pen markings on edges. Slightly slanted spine. Slightly creased front and back covers.
Editore: Limited Editions Club, NY, 1975
Da: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
R. J. Holden. (illustratore). First Edition. 8vo, 327. One of 2000 copies (this # 844) printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at The Stinehour Press. Signed by the illustrator. A fine copy in publisher's box.
Editore: Yale University Press, 2007
Da: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Thoreau began keeping his journal in 1837 and over the next twenty-five years he wrote over two million words investigating the author's interior life and becoming the springboard for his future books and essays. The editor has selected passages that reflect all aspects of Thoreau's life including as a writer, thinker, naturalist, social reformer, neighbor and friend.
Editore: Dover Publications NY nd (1962), 1962
ISBN 10: 0486203123ISBN 13: 9780486203126
Da: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Libro
1804pp. 4to Frontispiece in black and white in each volume Green cloth Foreword by Walter Harding. Each page reproduces 4 8vo pages Light cover soil else clean tight copies: VG to VG+/ in worn/torn Good- djs 0-486-20312-3.
Editore: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864
Da: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Second Printing. Octavo (18.5cm); forest green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, pebble grain; 319pp. Spine gilt faded, some material chipping and splitting at joints and extremities; boards show rubbing and wear, moderate soiling; corners bumped. Textblock is toned, with foxing and soiling; bindings shaken, cracked hinges throughout; pp.243-262 partially pulled; Ben & Bernarda Shahn ex libris on front pastedown, previous ownership stamp on title page. A Good, readable (if slightly fragile) copy. Excursions contains nine of Thoreau's essays, published after the author's death in 1862. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's biographical sketch, this anthology comprises Thoreau's own writings on the natural beauty of Massachusetts, including Walking, A Winter Walk, Autumnal Tints, A Walk to Wachusett, and Night and Moonlight. BAL 20111.
Data di pubblicazione: 1865
Da: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
THOREAU, Henry D[avid]. Cape Cod. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt spine. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. BAL 20115, binding C (sequence not determined). Spine ends slightly frayed, cloth rubbed, light scattered foxing, else very good.
Editore: Houghton Mifflin 1881 / 1884 / 1888 / 1892, Boston, 1881
Da: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First Edition. First printings of all four volumes, each published separately. In original green publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spines with facsimile of Thoreau's signature to front boards, top edges gilt; black coated endpapers. Early Spring (1881): [viii], 318 pp. A clean copy in bright cloth, rubbed; binding cracking internally at p.120 and p. 192, but holding; slight foxing to endleaves: Very Good. Summer (1884): 16 pages of ads at rear; [2], [i-vi], [1]-382,[1]-16pp; with folding map of Concord. Sturdy and bright, with very minor rubbing at head and tail; front hinge beginning to crack but repaired; around Very Good. Early 20th-century bookplate for The Argows. Winter (1888): 14 pages of ads at rear; [iv], vi, [1]-439, [1], [1]-14pp. Contemporary ownership signature to flyleaf. Externally handsome, apart from rubbing to head and tail; front hinge cracked through; title-page and three leaves of prelims neatly re-attached and two internal gatherings detached: just Good. Autumn (1892): [2], [i-iii] iv-vi, [1]-470 pp. An excellent copy, though spine slightly dulled: Very Good+. This "Seasons" series of four volumes, edited by Thoreau's friend and disciple H. G. O. Blake, collected excerpts from Thoreau's journals, largely focused on natural history. Thoreau's journal was later published in its entirety, and "has received increasing acclaim as a masterpiece in itself" (ANB). Not many copies were printed (BAL lists 1018 copies of Early Spring), and sets of the series are somewhat uncommon in the trade. BAL 20123, 20127, 20129, 20130. BORST A8.1.a, A9.1.a, A10.1.a, A11.1.a.
Data di pubblicazione: 1865
Da: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
THOREAU, Henry D[avid]. Letters to Various Persons. Orig. cloth. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. First edition. BAL 20116. A fine, bright copy.
Data di pubblicazione: 1863
Da: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 1 preliminary page undated ads. Original blind-stamped blue-green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, first and only printing that was dated 1863, which consisted of just 1558 copies (1500 of which were bound up) -- priced at $1.00. This posthumous collection of naturalist essays (including "A Winter Walk," "Autumnal Tints" and "Night and Moonlight") was Thoreau's third book, preceded only by A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS (1849) and WALDEN (1854). When Thoreau died of tuberculosis in May 1862 (at the age of 44), nothing of his had been published during the eight years since WALDEN. The editor of this book was the author's sister, Sophia Thoreau; the 26-page "Biographical Sketch" of Thoreau was by his friend and neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ticknor & Fields wished to pay a royalty of 10¢ but Thoreau's sister. preferred 15¢. According to the T&F cost books the matter was settled by paying her 12½¢ per copy [Borst]. This copy is in the zigzag or "sawtooth" grain cloth (Blanck's "TR" grain, horizontal); others are in pebbled cloth, or in cloth with a triangular pattern (no priority; the gilt and blind-stamping on all three types of cloth is identical). This is a close to FINE copy (a faint scratch on the front cover, a small rubbed spot on the lower spine); the spine gilt is unusually bright, and the original brown endpapers are clean and intact. The engraved frontispiece portrait of Thoreau -- the first publication of his likeness anywhere -- is clean and sharp; as always, in spite of the presence of the original frontispiece tissue, it has lightly offset onto the title page. EXCURSIONS has become notoriously difficult to find in this condition. Borst A3.1.a; Blanck 20111.
Data di pubblicazione: 1865
Da: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
[the E.R. Hoar / Doheny copy] Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 24 pp ads dated Dec 1864. Original blind-stamped purple cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, first printing, which consisted of only 2,000 or 2,040 copies (of which some were sent to England to be issued with a cancel title page) -- printed in December 1864, but not actually published until late March 1865. Edited by the younger William Ellery Channing and by Thoreau's sister Sophia, this was the fifth Thoreau book, preceded by A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, WALDEN, and the posthumous EXCURSIONS and THE MAINE WOODS. There were four different bindings used (differing in blind-stamping and in "author of" spine verbiage), and in seven different colors and grains of cloth -- without known priority; this copy is in Blanck's "binding A," and is in purple "Z" (triangular-grain) cloth. This is a bright, near-fine copy (a trace of wear at the spine ends); the spine has generally browned -- as is typical for this purple cloth -- but the spine lettering remains quite bright. The original brown-coated endpapers are intact, and there is no foxing on the leaves within. This has become a difficult title to acquire in such condition. Borst A5.1.a, binding 2; Blanck 20115, binding A. Provenance: both the front paste-down and the title page bear the signature "E.R. Hoar": Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895) of Concord was a good friend of Thoreau and of Emerson, and in fact his sister Elizabeth was engaged (for a time) to Emerson's brother Charles. Hoar would be U.S. Attorney General in 1869-1870, and was the first Head of the newly-created Dept. of Justice. Three years before this book was published, Hoar was the dedicatee of James Russell Lowell's BIGLOW PAPERS: Second Series (1862). Also: the front paste-down bears the small leather bookplate of Estelle Doheny (from her sale at Christie's on 18 October 1988).
Data di pubblicazione: 1865
Da: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
THOREAU, Henry D[avid]. Cape Cod. Orig. cloth. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. BAL 20115. Binding "B" (no priority). A very good plus copy.
Editore: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1854
Da: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Very Good-. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 357. Vignette title page. With the engraved map of Walden Pond opposite p. 307, with imprint appearing clearly. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Bound, without ads, in late 19th or early-20th century brown morocco, neatly rehinged, with gilt lettering on spine that has five raised bands. Corners worn. An elegant binding, handsomely restored. Housed in a smart clamshell case, quarter brown pebble grain morocco over brown cloth, gilt lettering and blindstamp devices on spine with raised bands. The first printing of the first edition, without the publisher ads, listed as the first citation by Borst (Henry David Thoreau A Descriptive Bibliography). A cornerstone of American literature. BAL 20106; Borst A2.1.a; GROLIER American 100, 63. Full leather in Leather Clamshell Case.
Editore: James Munroe & Company. New York: George P. Putnam, [et al.], Boston & Cambridge, 1849
Da: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First edition, and one of only 1000 copies printed at Thoreau's own risk, 12mo, pp. 413, [3] including the advertisement leaf for Walden; a bit of slight chipping at the top of the spine, bottom of the spine slightly cracked (but the imprint "Munroe & Co." is preserved); otherwise, a very good, bright and sound copy, in BAL's brown cloth binding 'A' ("trade binding," no priority) with no cracking of the hinges. A better copy than most. Thoreau's first book, published at his own risk, and with Walden, the only book published in his lifetime. The book did not sell well and the publisher returned a remainder of 706 copies to him in October of 1853 which prompted Thoreau to write: "I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author should behold the fruits of his labor?" By April of 1862, Thoreau had disposed of 111 of these copies leaving just 595. These he sold to Ticknor and Fields, and 450 of these were subsequently reissued with a new title page, dated 1862. BAL 20104; Borst A1.1a.