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Lot 60
Sale 3721 - A Fine Collection of American Literature and History
Jun 8, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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Lot Description
[Literature] Thoreau, Henry D. A Yankee In Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition (one of 1,500 copies printed). 8vo. (iv), 286 pp. Publisher's purple cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, spine and extremities faded; all edges trimmed; brown endpapers; with the Rockwell Kent-designed book-plate of Burns Gillam on front paste-down. BAL 20117; Borst A7.1.a
A handsome copy of Thoreau's seventh published work, the fifth following his death.