THOREAU HENRY DAVID The Writings

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. The Writings. 20 volumes. Illustrated with a folding map of Concord and 103 plates with lettered tissue guards. 8vo, publisher's green buckram, spines faded to tan and brown, covers mostly faded, scattered stray marks, 8 volumes a bit frayed at spine heads, printed paper spine labels, tanned; partly unopened. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906

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manuscript edition, in original binding. number 591 of 600 sets signed by the publisher and with an original manuscript sheet by thoreau from his journal tipped-in to Volume 1, in ink. The two page manuscript fragment comprises 37 lines, from Chapter 3 of Cape Cod, The Plains of Nauset, in altered form, and with several pencil corrections and additions. Borst B3.