Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Excursions. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 8vo, publisher's green cloth with wreath blind-stamped covers, spine gilt-lettered, top edges dust-soiled; coated brown endpapers. first edition 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--A Yankee in Canada. 8vo, original blind-stamped purple cloth, spine faded, spine tips with minor wear. 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." BAL 20117.