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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$800 – $1,200
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition. 8vo. (vi), 328, 22, (1) pp. (ads, dated April, 1864). Publisher's dark green cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, stains on rear board; all edges trimmed; brown endpapers; foxing to prelims; staining in margin and fore-edge of rear leaves. Borst A4.1.a; BAL 20113
A handsome first edition of Thoreau's fourth book, the second one published after his death in 1862. Published on May 28, 1864 in an edition of 1,650 copies.
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