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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1884. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. (8" x 5 1/2"). Green cloth. 382pp. Publishers' catalogue of New and recent books in rear of book. Folded map (tissue) of the map of the town of Concord as frontispiece. Front endpaper separating from book. Lacking half-title page. There is a small stain to the corner of the last ~ 50 or so pages, not effecting text. Bookseller description taped to back pastedown. Binding nice.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. Hardcover. Near Fine. Fourth edition. Edited and with an introduction by H. G. O Blake. Small octavo. v, 382, 15 (ads) pp. Illustrated with a two-page map of Concord. Forest green cloth gilt over beveled boards, topedge gilt. Binding with moderate general wear including two tiny tears at the crown, just about near fine. The interior, including the black coated endleaves, are fine.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884. American transcendentalist and abolitionist Henry D.Thoreau (1817-1862) achieved no material success in his lifetime, but his influence on Twentieth Century thought has been enormous. This is a Very Good copy of the first volume of the posthumous collection of his journals, to be followed by "Winter" (1888) and "Autumn" (1892. Edited by H.G.G. Blake, Thoreau's executor. First Edition. Green cloth binding, beveled; with reproduced author signature on the front cover; titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; 382 pages; with a sixteen page catalog in the rear.Top-edge is gilt; black endpapers. Two-page map of Concord precedes the Title Page. Small decorative bookseller label on the rear paste-down (nicely decorative!). Corners are bumped; rubbed around the margins. Head and foot of spine are rubbed with light fray. Fore-edge has some spotting but textblock is fine, with no foxing evident. A sound copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Read More

1884. Edited by H.G.O. Blake. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884. Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, which consisted of only 1260 copies (WALDEN, in comparison, consisted of 2000 copies). This was the second of Thoreau's four "seasons" to be posthumously published from his journal; EARLY SPRING had come out in 1881, and WINTER and AUTUMN (curiously out of order) would come out in 1888 and 1892 respectively. The frontispiece consists of a folding map of Concord, with the homes of R.W. Emerson and Nathl. Hawthorne highlighted (as well as Walden Pond). This is a bright copy, fine except for a little faint speckling on the front cover -- a common difficulty for this Thoreau binding. Borst A9.1.a.; Blanck 20127.