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Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1891. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1891. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Cover has moderate shelfwear with rubbing and chipping on the edges, corners, front, and along the spine edge. Top edge gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy. Describes the author's trip to Canada and anti-slavery issues.

Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt spine. A few spots on outer hinges worn through, inner hinges starting but sound. Wear and some chipping at head and heel, small closed tear. Minor foxing to endpapers and title page. Still a good+ copy. Gilt on spine is bright. Thin clip from old bookseller's catalog tacked onto inside of rear board, offering the book for 2.50. This work, published posthumously, is distinguished for containing the first book publication of "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle," Thoreau's two most famous essays, as well as all of his major political writings. First printing of @1500 copies. With signature of George A. Fay on front endpaper. Likely George Austin Fay (1838-1916)known as George A. Fay — of Meriden, Conn. Born in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Mass. Republican. Lawyer; Freemason and member of Connecticut state senate.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. First edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Includes CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE and nine other reform papers. Rebound in brown full-leather covers with gilt title label on spine. Slight bubbling to new rear paste down end paper and hint of water staining to top & bottom edges of lightly toned text block A very good plus, sturdy copy.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, [i-iv], 1-286 pages. In Fair condition. Bound in wavy-patterned green cloth with gilt text on spine. Boards have moderate rubbing to corners, tearing to spine edges, and moderate shelf wear. Binding is loose with cocking to spine. Text block has heavy splitting to interior hinges, leaves between front pastedown and title page missing, color transfer from front pastedown to title page, mild foxing to most pages, and light damp staining on pages 121 to 265. Shelved Room A. BAL 20117 Binding A. 1370605. Special Collections.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition and printing, in the first binding, per Borst. 8vo, publisher's original dark plum cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine, the covers with blind-stamped wreaths in the center bordered in blind, brown coated endpapers. 286 pp. Internally a very nice copy, the text is quite clean and fresh with no foxing, the original cloth still attractive without fading but with some expert consolidation at the corner tips and neatly rebacked preserving a majority of the original decorated cloth from the spine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY AS IT Includes the first general appearance of "Civil Disobedience”. This title contains a five chapter work “A Yankee in Canada” based on several brief trips Thoreau made from 1849 to 1853. It was during these years that his primary residence was at Walden. The second half of the book is a series of 11 essays called the “Anti-Slavery and Reform Essays”. They include a… Read More