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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. These volumes are in very good condition. There is minimal scratching to both dust jackets and light edgewear. Otherwise, both of these volumes have tight binding, crisp and ummarked pages, and no spills or stains. The dust jackets are bright and crisp, protected in mylar.…

Condizione: Near Fine. Manuscript Edition. "Manuscript Edition" of Thoreau's collected works, with scarce and highly desirable inlaid manuscript half-leaf from early Walden draft tipped into first volume. Number 83 of 600 copies, complete in 20 volumes, illustrated with photogravures. Limitation page to each volume, signed by publisher in first volume. One of 200 copies with 40 additional plates, specially bound in publisher's three-quarter green morocco over green marbled paper, decorative gilt stamping to spine, top edge gilt, green marbled endpapers, green silk ribbon marker. Borst B3. Near Fine with sunned spines, light wear and occasional scuffs to covers, and offsetting from turn-ins to endpapers. Scattered white flecks to Volume I rear board and small dent to upper edge of same, shallow dent to fore edge of Volume XII rear board, bumping to upper corners of Volume XVI. Volume XIII spine unfaded. A very handsome prestige set of Thoreau's writing. The Transcendentalist's books and letters occupy the first six volumes, and his journal - most of it published here for the first time - fills the last fourteen. The first volume of each set contains a leaf or half-leaf of Thoreau's writing. Most leaves are drafts of the writer's later essays, but several contain draft pages from his greatest work, Walden (1854). The half-leaf in this set appears to have been part of the author's third draft (Borst's Draft C). It is based on a journal entry from the autumn of 1845, printed in Volume VII of this edition, which contains a fascinating and lengthy account of an Irishman named Hugh Quoil. Thoreau tightly condensed the story of Quoil for Walden, and this manuscript, slightly disjointed with interlinear notes in pencil, shows an intermediary stage in his writing. Compare the following versions of the same passage, in which Thoreau drops a line about Quoil's bones and adds a line about getting him to tell the story of his battles: "I was never much acquainted with Hugh Quoil, though sometimes I met him in the path, and now do believe that a solid shank-bone, and a skull which no longer aches, lie somewhere, and can still be produced, which once with garment of flesh and broadcloth were called and hired to do work as Hugh Quoil. He was a man of manners and gentlemanlike, as one who had seen the world, and was capable of more civil speech than you could well attend to." (Journal, 1906, written 1845) ".though sometimes I met him in the path - and do believe that a solid shank bone & skull which no longer aches, lie somewhere, and can still be produced, which once with garment of flesh and broad-cloth, were called, and hired to do work as, Hugh Quoil. [Pencil deletion mark through all of above] - If he had lived >longer< I should have made him fight his battles over again. He was a man of manners & gentleman-like - as one who had seen the world, and was capable of more civil speech than you could well attend to." (Recto of leaf in this copy, written circa 1849) "The last inhabitant of these woods before me was an Irishman, Hugh Quoil (if I have spelt his name with coil enough), who occupied Wyman's tenement -- Col. Quoil, he was called. Rumor said that he had been a soldier at Waterloo. If he had lived I should have made him fight his battles over again. His trade here was that of a ditcher. Napoleon went to St. Helena; Quoil came to Walden Woods. All I know of him is tragic. He was a man of manners, like one who had seen the world, and was capable of more civil speech than you could well attend to." (Walden, 1854) The Manuscript Edition was not published without controversy. Thoreau began keeping a journal in 1837 and had amassed forty-seven handwritten volumes by his death in 1861. His sister Sophia and his grieving friends put together several books from the material in the 1860s, and in 1876 Sophia bequeathed the manuscripts to Thoreau's disciple Harrison Blake. He in turn bequeathed the collection to Elias Russell, who went to court to secure his absolute ownership and sold off. Signed.…