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A Fine Collection of American Literature and History
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- Sale 3721
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| Philadelphia
Jun 8 | 7:00 AM EDT
Live
| Philadelphia
Sale 3721
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$600 – $900
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. 8vo. 319 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Thoreau, with tissue guard. Publisher's blue-green cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; brown endpapers; light offsetting from frontispiece onto title-page. Borst A3.1.a; BAL 20111
A handsome copy of Thoreau's third book, the first published following his death the previous year. Published on October 10, 1863 in an edition of 1,558 copies.
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