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Lot 261
Sale 5670 - Fine Books
Sep 29, 2005
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$250 -
400
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$600
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Lot Description
2 vols. 2 vols.
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Second printing. 12mo, orig. brown cloth; spine ends & corners frayed, other light to moderate wear. Map after p. 306. 16 pp. pub. cat., dated May, 1862. Minor internal creasing. 280 copies issued a few weeks after Thoreau's death on May 6, 1862. Not recorded by BAL. Borst A2.1.b; Harding 1. * The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition, first printing. 12mo, orig. purple cloth; head & foot of spine frayed away, corners bumped, spine & edges faded. Dampstaining (generally unobtrusive) to head of sheets from p. 20 onward. Bound without pub. cat. With the priced list of Thoreau's works. BAL 20113; Borst A4.1.a.
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