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Lot 154
Sale 1242 - Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection
Nov 9, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862). A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
8vo. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, spine gilt [BAL Binding A, no priority] (spine sunned, a touch of wear to extremities, minor stain to lower cover); custom slipcase and chemise.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, one of only 1546 copies, INCLUDING THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE" IN BOOK FORM. Edited by William Ellery Channing and Sophia Thoreau and published posthumously, A Yankee in Canada contains "Prayers" on pp.[117]-122, which was actually written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, but here misattributed to Thoreau. BAL 20117.
Property from the Dorros Family Collection