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Detroit: Gale Research Co, 1917. Hardcover. Good+ (book plate inside front cover, library label inside back cover, library stamp on page 201, label residue on spine, library stamp on title page). Navy boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 541 (1) pp. bw illustrations. Contents: Ancestry and social conditions -- The boyhood and youth of Thoreau -- College essays of a youth of genius -- College essays (concluded) -- Pencil-making schoolmasters and their school -- The week on the rivers -- Thoreau in literature -- Symbolism and paradox -- Thoreau as friend, neighbor, and citizen -- Thoreau as man of letters and of affairs -- Thoreau as author in prose and verse -- The journeyings of Thoreau -- Village sketches, chiefly from the journals -- Slavery and John Brown -- Death and literary rebirth of Thoreau Appendix: A. Library of Henry D. Thoreau -- B. A list of authors read or to be read by H. D. Thoreau -- C. Asa Dunbar : parson, freemason, and attorney -- D. The Boston home of the… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Plate Illustrations. First publication of many of Thoreau's essays, along with an authoritative memoir by one of his friends and neighbors in Concord. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Fine copy.