THOREAU HENRY DAVID Excursions

Sale 2366 - Lot 232

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Excursions. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 8vo, publisher's green cloth with wreath blind-stamped covers, spine gilt-lettered, few light soil marks on rear board; brown coated endpapers, Albert Edgar Lowndes bookplate, cloth clamshell case. first edition. A handsome copy of Thoreau's third book, edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau's sister, Sophia. "1,558 copies were printed of this edition but only 1,500 were bound" (Borst), A3.1.a; BAL 20111. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863

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with-Letters to Various Persons. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, slight lean, few mild stains; brown coated endpapers, narrow marginal dampstain to a few prelims, one signature partly sprung, Albert Edgar Lownes bookplate, cloth clamshell case. First Edition. Blanck's "A" binding, with Thoreau listed as "Author of Excursions and a Week on the Concord River" and publisher as "Ticknor & Co" at spine. Borst A6.1.a; BAL 20116.