THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. A Yankee in Canada with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt with faded shelf number; tiny nick to outer edge of front flyleaf. First edition, containing Thoreau's ever-relevant essay Civil Disobedience: "How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." Clean, square copy. BAL 20117. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866