Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

1817 – 1862

Henry David Thoreau was an American poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, resister of taxes, development critic, author, and historian. Thoreau's works total over twenty volumes, and his most notable works include Walden and Resistance to Civil Government.

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Item #377810 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack. Henry David Thoreau
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The Mellon Family Copy of the First Printing of Thoreau's First Book

Item 377810A Week on the Concord and Merrimack.

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Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition, first printing, first issue of the author’s first book. Among the most famous publishing flops in the history of American literature. One thousand sets of sheets of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers were printed at Thoreau’s expense.....  Read More Item Details for A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Add to Wish List

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Item #317740 The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn. Binding, Henry David Thoreau

Item 317740The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn.

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Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was.....  Read More Item Details for The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn Add to Wish List

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Item #315453 A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Henry David Thoreau

Item 315453A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers.

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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. Includes the first appearance in a volume of Thoreau’s writings of "Civil Disodedience," which, "through its impact on Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., the anti-Nazi movement in Europe in the 1940s, and anti–Vietnam War protesters in the 1970s, has had a wider.....  Read More Item Details for A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers Add to Wish List

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Item #261635 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau’s First Book, With an Unrecorded Contemporary Review : ‘Rare Merits’

Item 261635A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

Price: $7,500

Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition of the author's first book. A notable copy of Thoreau’s first book, largely overlooked when initially published, and now a recognized classic. Emerson famously declined to review his friend’s book; but the present copy makes it clear that some did.....  Read More Item Details for A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Add to Wish List

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Item #55661 The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans. A Translation from the Harivansa of...

Item 55661The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans. A Translation from the Harivansa of Langlois. Edited from Manuscript with an Introduction and...

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New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. First edition, second printing. F.f.e.p. inscribed: “Inscribed for Max Baym / My friendly and invisible critic / by Arthur Christy.”. Read More Item Details for The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans. A Translation from the Harivansa of Langlois. Edited from Manuscript with an Introduction and Notes by Arthur Christy Add to Wish List

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