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Lot 254
Sale 1335 - Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
Jun 6, 2024
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THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862). Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865 .
8vo. 24pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated December 1864. Original green cloth [BAL binding D, no priority], gilt-stamped spine, brown coated endpapers (few faint stains to covers, spine lightly sunned). Provenance: Unidentified penciled notation dated 1865.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the ads dated December 1864. Thoreau's meditative account describes his walking-trips on the beach to Cape Cod in the 1850s. A BRIGHT COPY. BAL 20115.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie