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1 CHARLES AGVENT 291 Linden Road Mertztown, PA Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) TRANSCENDENTALISM 1. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo with SHATTUCK, Lemuel. A HISTORICAL DISCOURSE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF CONCORD, 12TH SEPT with A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD. Concord: G. F. Bemis/John Stacy, First Edition. Original blindstamped publisher's dark brown cloth containing in this order: Shattuck's HISTORY OF CONCORD (viii, 392 pages with folding map); an offprint REVIEW OF A HISTORY OF CONCORD FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, No. XCI (20 pages); and importantly, Emerson's address on the Second Centennial Anniversary of the incorporation of Concord (52 pages), INSCRIBED by the author on the top of the title: "Mr. Lemuel Shattuck/with Mr. Emerson's comp." The end of the final word in the inscription was trimmed and the original blue wrappers discarded when bound with the other two items, the original size 6-7/16" x 9-3/4" trimmed to 5-1/2" x 8-3/4". BAL 5178; Myerson A2.1: second state with signature mark 3 present, but he notes that the order of states is arbitrary. Emerson's first separately published substantial publication, preceded only by the pamphlet and broadside printings of his 1832 LETTER...TO THE SECOND CHURCH, is scarce not only due to a likely very small printing but also to a fire at the Town-Clerk's office in Concord that is said to have destroyed most copies. He consulted the proof sheets of Shattuck's history, published shortly after the town's celebration, in creating this work, refering to it in 23 footnotes. The strong circumstantial evidence leads us to believe this is Shattuck's own copy of his work and the offprint as well, bound together for him with the pamphlet given to him by Emerson. Bookplate of the Reverend Philip Wheeler on the front pastedown. The Shattuck title page reinforced at the gutter. Near Fine, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Superb. $30, [EMERSON, Ralph Waldo; THOREAU, Henry David; et. al.] CAMERON, Kenneth Walter (editor). Collection of Several Works Including Emerson's THE VESTRY LECTURES AND A RARE SERMON; AMERICAN RENAISSANCE TRANSCENDENTALISM; Harriet Zink's EMERSON'S USE OF THE BIBLE; AMERICAN AUTHORS IN PICTURES; Franklin Sanborn's SIXTY YEARS OF CONCORD; et. al. Hartford: Transcendental Books, (1970s s). All in stapled 8-1/2" x 11" wraps, profusely illustrated. Various reprints and compilations including some obscure and interesting pieces. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. $75.00

2 3. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Concord, 12 September A one-page letter on a 4-7/8" x 7-3/4" sheet of paper addressed "Dear Sir" about an upcoming lecture. In full: "I think you may hold me engaged to the Fraternity for a lecture, on the night you propose, Tuesday, 12 November." SIGNED as "R. W. Emerson." Matted with a portrait and framed to an overall size of 13-1/2" x 11." Dark, bold writing and an attractive presentation. Fine. 4. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Concord, 13 March A 2-page letter on two sides of one half of a 9-3/4" x 8" sheet of paper addressed "Dear Sir" to Abijah Metcalf Ide regarding a mistaken identification of a poem's authorship. In full: "I have received a copy of the Taunton Democrat containing Mr. Trowbridge's (author of Jackwood, etc.) poem "On Beauty," and it is there ascribed to me. I entreat you to say in your next paper that it is not mine, but his. I wonder at the error, for I could not find any reason for it in the poem." SIGNED as "R. W. Emerson." This letter, along with the others we are offering, was the subject of a 1991 article by Melanie Bauer in RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY titled "Emerson's Acquaintance with Abijah Metcalf Ide, Jr.: Six Unpublished Letters" [RALS17 (1991): ]. Small chips at both ends of the fold. Creases from mailing; traces of mounting on verso. Near Fine. 5. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Concord, 27 Feb A 2-page letter on both sides of a 4-7/8" x 6-3/4" sheet of paper addressed "Dear Sir" to Abijah Metcalf Ide about a borrowed book. In full: "I have just received from Mr. Watson the volume belonging to the Athenaeum which I had lent him. I am sorry that I do not find at home my own copy of the 'Last words on Homer' which is the sequel to this. In due time it will doubtless come. You can keep this book several weeks without objection. You shall return it to me care of Ticknor & Fields, say, in six weeks. But Mr. [?] might also read it." SIGNED as "R. W. Emerson." This letter, along with the other we are offering, was the subject of a 1991 article by Melanie Bauer in RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY titled "Emerson's Acquaintance with Abijah Metcalf Ide, Jr.: Six Unpublished Letters" [RALS17 (1991): ]. The book Emerson mentions is not listed in Harding's EMERSON'S LIBRARY. With the original envelope addressed by Emerson with the stamps removed affecting the postmark. Normal creases from mailing; trace of mounting on verso. Fine.

3 6. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM) in Volume I of the Autograph Centenary Edition of the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cambridge: Riverside Press, Autograph Centenary Edition. This is the first volume only of a twelve-volume set, copy #207 of 600 SIGNED by the publisher, but it is the most important volume with an AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT LEAF in Emerson's hand written on both sides. The excerpt of about 90 words is from a working draft of his "The Celebration of Intellect: An Address at Tufts College" given on 10 July 1861, first published in this collection in the twelfth volume. The excerpt in the published version reads as follows, though the manuscript differs quite a bit: "their unerring watch on a needle and thread, on a cobbler's lapstone or a switchman's turntable as on the moon's orbit? Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral _ all one to him _or new circumstances that afflict you. He will find the circumstances not altered ; as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause, as dazzling a glory on the invincible law. Is it so important whether a man wears a shoe-buckle or ties his shoe-lappet with a string?" Front joint splitting but covers tight. Volume is Very Good, manuscript is about Fine. 7. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS). A fine quotation on a 5" x 4-3/4" sheet of paper mounted on a larger sheet from Emerson's poem "Memory" SIGNED "R. W. Emerson." In full: "Nightdreams trace on Memory's Wall/Shadows of the thoughts of day;/and thy fortunes, as they fall,/the bias of the will betray." Light soiling. Near Fine and quite uncommon. 8. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON Extra-Illustrated including an AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS). Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, ( ). First Edition. The twelve-volume Concord Edition, luxuriously bound in full green morocco with a gilt floral pattern with red morocco inlays on both covers and the spine which is also lettered in gilt with four raised bands, gilt-decorated red morocco inside panels, red silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Bound into each volume is a page with printed script that states: "This set of Emerson contains one original manuscript and watercolor illustrations. Binding specially designed." Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and color photogravures. Bound into the first volume is an AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED: "Let the river run which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. R. Waldo Emerson, Syracuse, 14 Feby " On the verso is another AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED, this by William Lloyd Garrison: "My country is the world, my countrymen are all mankind." Wm. Lloyd Garrison Syracuse, May 8, 1851." All volumes have light to moderate wear to the joints with the spines dulled to varying degrees and some uneven darkening to the covers. The second volume has a small chip to the head of the spine. The first and last volumes show some old dampstaining both to the covers and the margins of the text with the red onlays lacking to two covers. Overall Very Good and still quite handsome.

4 9. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. ENGLISH TRAITS. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co, First Edition. Original black cloth, blindstamped with gilt lettering on the spine, yellow endpapers. BAL 5226; Myerson A24.1.a. This copy with the battered type at the bottom of page 230 and the "1" on the half title page. Emerson's superb book on his travels in England including a chapter on Stonehenge. A few small, faint stains to the cloth; a small gouge on the spine, not terrible in appearance. Otherwise the cloth is in very nice shape with the spine ends intact and the gilt bright. Contents very clean as well with the owner name of C.H.A. Carter on the front endpaper. Housed in a cloth chemise and a half brown morocco slipcase with gilt lettering on the spine. Near Fine in a Very Good custom-made slipcase. $ EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. ESSAYS. Boston: James Munroe and Company, First Edition. Contemporary half black morocco and marbled boards with matching morocco corners, recently rebacked with a black morocco spine. BAL 5189; Myerson A10.1.a. Emerson's essential collection containing some of his best and most famous essays, including "Self- Reliance": "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" and "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." Owner name of George Dickinson on the half-title page. Minor internal soiling; covers nice. Very Good copy of this classic. 11. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. San Francisco: Limited Editions Club, Folio (9" x 13-1/2") bound in cloth-backed blue paper boards. Contains both the First and the Second Series of Emerson's masterful essays with a critical introduction By Edward F. O'Day. Copy #196 of 1500 beautifully designed, printed in red and black, and bound by John Henry Nash and SIGNED by him on the colophon page. A beautiful presentation of these classic essays. Spine a little darkened, slight chipping to spine label. Near Fine in a Very Good, intact slipcase. 12. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. New York: Heritage Press, (1934). Large quarto bound in linen-backed marbled boards. Designed by John Henry Nash. Reprinted from the Limited Editions Club edition in a smaller format. Fine in slipcase. $ EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS. Boston: Osgood, First Edition. Original terra cotta cloth. BAL Myerson A34.1. Signature mark N is present on p. 209 making it an early copy according to BAL. The "inviolable" reading occurs on p. 308, however, which Myerson notes occurs after the first printing. Light edgewear, a little heavier to the spine tips and edges. Very Good.

5 14. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS. Boston: Osgood, First Edition. Original terra cotta cloth. BAL 5272: Signature mark N present on page 209; Myerson A34.1.a: correct readings on page 308. Myerson also notes that "Emerson was greatly assisted in compiling this volume by James Elliot Cabot and Ellen Emerson." This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author: "J. Elliot Cabot, Esq./His book/r. W. Emerson/14 Dec " Below the inscription, likely in Cabot's hand, is the following: "This, Miss Ellen Emerson says, was the first copy that came to him from the publisher." Myerson states that 5000 copies were printed 15 December 1875, the same day the book was advertised as being published that day in a Boston newspaper. There are also five pages with comments or corrections in pencil in Cabot's hand as well as notes filling about a third of one of the rear blanks. In addition to his work on this book, Cabot was also a secretary for Emerson as well as a longtime friend and his first biographer. Association copies of this magnitude of Emerson's books are very few and far between. The rear hinge is broken and the front hinge is ready to go with some external splitting there as well. The spine tips are frayed. Good example of one of the finest Emerson Presentation copies extant. $20, EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, Original gilt-decorated white linen, the gift binding, one of only 100 copies bound thus from a total edition of Both BAL 5250 and Myerson A28.1.a note that the earliest inscribed copies are dated 1 May 1867, May Day. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author as "R. W. Emerson" to Mrs. Anna C. Lowell on 1 May 1867 on the first blank. Anna Cabot Lowell was the author of THEORY OF TEACHING, THE ELEMENTS OF ASTRONOMY, and several books for children. A few pages unopened. Spine slightly darkened with minor wear to the tips. Near Fine and scarce. $8, EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. MISCELLANIES; EMBRACING NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, First Edition. Original brown cloth. BAL Myerson A22.1.b. The second printing of NATURE; ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES published in This is the Stephen H. Wakeman copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Moderate wear to spine tips and corners, few scrapes to spine. Numerous pencil markings. Very Good with a fine provenance. $ EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. POEMS. Boston: James Munroe and Company, First American Edition. Published slightly earlier in London. Emerson's first book of poetry, bound in original yellow glazed boards neatly rebacked with most of the original spine laid down on attractive tan morocco. BAL 5211; Myerson A18.2.a mentions a half-title page which is not present in this copy. Collation matches exactly with BAL including the four-page catalog dated 1 January 1847 inserted at the front. Pencil signature of O. B. Frothingham dated 1847 on the front endpaper. A very clean, attractive copy, about Fine. Housed in a cloth chemise and brown half-morocco slipcase.

6 18. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE POEMS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. New York: Limited Editions Club, Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full black sheepskin, grained and crushed, with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine; 256 pages. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with 22 lovely watercolor vignettes by Richard and Doris Beers that have been colored by hand in the studio of Charlize Brakeley. Copy #1056 of 1500 SIGNED by the artists on the colophon page. Slipcase with tear at the top of the backstrip. Two tiny nicks to leather. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase. $ EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE POEMS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. New York: Limited Editions Club, Tall octavo 6-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in full black sheepskin with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with 22 lovely watercolor vignettes by Richard and Doris Beers that have been colored by hand in the studio of Charlize Brakeley. Copy #380 of 1500 SIGNED by the artists on the colophon page. Spine edges and tips rubbed with slight loss of leather. Good, solid copy, lacking the slipcase. 20. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE POEMS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. New York: Limited Editions Club, Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full black sheepskin, grained and crushed, with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine; 256 pages. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with 22 lovely watercolor vignettes by Richard and Doris Beers that have been colored by hand in the studio of Charlize Brakeley. Copy #1053 of 1500 SIGNED by the artists on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Mild rubbing to leather. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. 21. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. REPRESENTATIVE MEN: SEVEN LECTURES. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, First published in 1850, here bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards with calf corners, marbled endpapers and edges; neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. This copy is SIGNED by the author as "R. Waldo Emerson" on the first blank. Armorial bookplate of L. Duncan Wood on the front pastedown. Near Fine and scarce, especially with a signature without inscription.

7 22. [EMERSON, Ralph Waldo] HAWES, Josiah Johnson & SOUTHWORTH, Albert Sands. PHOTOGRAPH OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Fine portrait of Emerson, image size 8-1/2" x 12-1/2" matted and framed to an overall size of 15" x 20". On the rear of the frame are two labels from Holman's Print Shop of Boston, circa 1940, on which is stated the following: "This photograph was in J. J. Hawes' studio at the time of his death and was stored with the rest of the contents until 1934, when it came to us for sale. It is a photographic copy of a daguerreotype portrait made by Mr. Hawes in the 1840's. The negative was a collodion-process plate ("wet plate"). This print could have been made as late as the 1890's, but more probably dates from the 1880's. When Mr. Hawes made the copy of the daguerreotype is not known." Southworth and Hawes produced some of the finest daguerreotypes of the 19th Century. Among their subjects, besides Emerson, were John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawes died at the age of 94 in 1901, operating his studio up to the end. During the Depression his daguerreotypes were dispersed among a few museums and private collections. Not examined out of the frame but appears to be Fine. $3,500.00

8 23. FULLER, Margaret and EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (editors). THOREAU, Henry David. THE DIAL: A MAGAZINE FOR LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION, VOLUME II: July 1841, October 1841, January 1842, & April Boston & London: E. P. Peabody/John Green, First Edition. Contemporary half calf with calf corners and marbled boards; bound without wrappers. A prototype of the 20th-century little magazine, the DIAL was the most important American literary periodical of the 19th century and one of the scarcest with print runs never exceeding 300 copies. First edited by Margaret Fuller ( ) and then by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( ), it not only featured many of their most important works but also introduced the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Published only from July 1840 to April 1844, Volume II's four issues contain two poems by Thoreau, including his important "Friendship," later collected in his first book, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and much by Emerson including his defining piece "Transcendentalism." Page 421 has an early ink correction, possibly in the hand of the editor. Rubbing to spine and boards. Tight, clean, and Near Fine. $2, "The more liberal thought of intelligent persons acquires a new name in each period or community; and in ours, by no very good luck, as it sometimes appears to us, has been designated as Transcendentalism. " RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Transcendentalism" 24. FULLER, Margaret and EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (editors). THOREAU, Henry David. THE DIAL: A MAGAZINE FOR LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION, VOLUME II: July 1841, October 1841, January 1842, & April Boston & London: E. P. Peabody/John Green, First Edition. Recently and handsomely bound, without wrappers, in half green morocco and marbled boards with morocco corners and giltlettered red and brown morocco spine labels. A prototype of the 20thcentury little magazine, the DIAL was the most important American literary periodical of the 19th century and one of the scarcest with print runs never exceeding 300 copies. First edited by Margaret Fuller ( ) and then by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( ), it not only featured many of their most important works but also introduced the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Published only from July 1840 to April 1844, Volume II's four issues contain two poems by Thoreau, including his important "Friendship," later collected in his first book, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and much by Emerson including his defining piece "Transcendentalism." Page 421 has an early ink correction, possibly in the hand of the editor. Errata slip bound in before the last issue. Contents with light to moderate foxing; several ink and blindstamp library stamps. Binding Fine.

9 25. FULLER, Margaret and EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (editors). THOREAU, Henry David. THE DIAL: A MAGAZINE FOR LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION, VOLUME IV: July 1843, October 1843, January 1844, & April Boston & London: James Munroe and Co./John Chapman, First Edition. Recently and handsomely bound, without wrappers, in half green morocco and marbled boards with morocco corners and gilt-lettered red and brown morocco spine labels. A prototype of the 20th-century little magazine, the DIAL was the most important American literary periodical of the 19th century and one of the scarcest with print runs never exceeding 300 copies. First edited by Margaret Fuller ( ) and then by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( ), it not only featured many of their most important works but also introduced the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Published only from July 1840 to April 1844, Volume IV contains the last four issues with works by Thoreau (two essays: "A Winter Walk" and "Ethnical Scriptures"); Emerson (the essay "Tragic"); Charles Lane (two essays: "Brook Farm" and "A Walk in the Woods"); and most importantly, Margaret Fuller's 48-page essay "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women," which served as the basis for her most important book WOMAN IN THE 19TH CENTURY. Contents with light to moderate foxing; several ink and blindstamp library stamps. Binding Fine. $2, (HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel; WHITMAN, Walt; WHITTIER, John Greenleaf; BRYANT, William Cullen; LOWELL, James Russell; LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth; THOREAU, Henry David; POE, Edgar Allan; et. al.). THE UNITED STATES MAGAZINE AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. Volumes Washington DC: Langtree & O'Sullivan, ; First Edition. Fifteen octavo volumes bound in fourteen in half calf and marbled boards with calf corners. Includes the first or early publications of 22 stories or articles by Hawthorne (including "The Celestial Railroad" and "Artist of the Beautiful"), 7 stories by Walt Whitman (including "Bervance"), as well as a number of appearances by Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier and one each by Thoreau ("The Landlord") and Poe ("Marginalia"). In addition there are articles on or reviews of Tocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, Texas and Mexico, a projected canal on the isthmus (Panama) connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, as well as a number of articles on banking and finance. The May 1839 issue contains a description by Samuel Morse of daguerreotypes, recounting his visit that year to Daguerre in Paris, marking only the second mention of the new invention of photography in America. Illustrated with 51 (of 53) engraved portraits and two tinted lithographs of the Yucatan. The set lacks four issues from the last volume, 1844, and includes issue 95 from Volume 22, 1848, which has coverage of the Mexican War. Contents mostly clean with just a few pages foxed including the portraits. Leather is dry on some spines and has not been treated but all covers are tight and there is very little flaking. A Very Good set of this important periodical. $2,500.00

10 27. THOREAU, Henry David. CAPE COD. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original brown cloth. Binding C, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December Light to moderate foxing. Spine a touch rubbed but gilt still sharp. A bright, Near Fine copy. $1, THOREAU, Henry David. CAPE COD. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original brown cloth. Binding A, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December Light to moderate foxing, some early pencil writing on endpapers. Spine gilt bright with some fraying to the tips and edges. Very Good. $ THOREAU, Henry David. CAPE COD. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original purple Z cloth. Binding D, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December Modern bookplate on front free endpaper. Internally quite clean. Spine gilt bright with some fraying to the tips and edges. Very Good. $ THOREAU, Henry David. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. Boston: David R. Godine, Copy #XIV of only 50 numbered copies bound by hand in morocco-backed marbled boards of a total edition of 650 printed in red and black by The Gehenna Press. Darkening at the head and heel of gutters from binder's glue with slight effect on a few pages. Just about Fine. $ THOREAU, Henry David. EXCURSIONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original blue-green Z cloth. Portrait frontispiece, the first book to include a portrait of Thoreau. BAL 20111: 1558 copies printed. Borst A3.1.a states that 1558 copies were printed but only 1500 were bound. Ten pieces are contained within, including a Biographical Sketch by Emerson of Thoreau and nine essays by Thoreau, among them the famous "Walking." Early owner name of Edward L. Temple on the front blank and the early bookplate of the Rutland High School on the front pastedown. One signature pulled, scattered foxing and staining. Covers lightly soiled with minor wear to the spine, gilt bright. Very Good. $850.00

11 32. THOREAU, Henry David. EXCURSIONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original blue-green Z cloth. Portrait frontispiece, the first book to include a portrait of Thoreau. BAL 20111: 1558 copies printed. Borst A3.1.a states that 1558 copies were printed but only 1500 were bound. Ten pieces are contained within, including a Biographical Sketch by Emerson of Thoreau and nine essays by Thoreau, among them the famous "Walking." Owner name of Charles[?] Davis on the front endpaper, possibly a neighbor of Thoreau's who owned a very large elm tree that Thoreau measured three times, the final time after it was cut down. A fairly clean copy with very minor wear, the spine gilt bright. Near Fine. 33. THOREAU, Henry David. LETTERS TO VARIOUS PERSONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original brown cloth. Binding A. BAL 20116: 2,130 copies printed. Borst A6.1a. Previously unpublished letters and poems edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Small chip to front endpaper. A bit rubbed but spine still readable, frayed at head and heel. Very Good. 34. THOREAU, Henry David. LETTERS TO VARIOUS PERSONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original purple cloth. Binding A. BAL 20116: 2,130 copies printed. Borst A6.1a. Previously unpublished letters and poems edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Very light wear to spine tips and a few faint spots to the front cover. Near Fine. 35. THOREAU, Henry David. THE MAINE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original purple Z cloth. BAL 20113: 1650 copies printed though Borst A4.1.a states that 1450 copies were printed. True first printing with list of Thoreau's books priced. Catalogue dated April 1864 with last leaf advertising "The Thirteenth Volume." Contents clean. Spine pleasantly sunned, tips a bit frayed, gilt clear. Near Fine and scarce in this condition. $3,500.00

12 36. THOREAU, Henry David. THE MAINE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original plum TR cloth. BAL 20113: 1650 copies printed though Borst A4.1.a states that 1450 copies were printed. True first printing with list of Thoreau's books priced. No catalogue bound into this copy. From the library of John Shepard Keyes with his ownership SIGNATURE in ink on the front fly: "John S. Keyes." Keyes was a close friend and classmate of Henry David Thoreau, just a year or two younger. He was also a fellow suitor of Ellen Sewall, who famously declined Thoreau's marriage proposal. Their friendship was often strained for other reasons; about the same time Thoreau was living in his cabin at Walden Pond, Keyes was seeing his father's will through probate-- the largest estate ever probated in Concord up to that time, and soon after he built a grand home near the town center. Keyes became a prominent citizen of Concord, later serving as a judge. Like Thoreau, Keyes was also friends of the Emerson family and kept a diary that echoed many of Thoreau's views of life. But Keyes was less conflicted about getting on in the world, was politically conservative, and openly admitted his philistine leanings. After Thoreau's death he was interviewed from time to time about his dead friend, and like other Concordians, he usually provided a candid and negative account. For the most extended biographies of Keyes, consult THE CONCORD SOCIAL CIRCLE, and Smith, HISTORICAL GUIDE TO HENRY DAVID THOREAU, pages et seq. Also see Thoreau, CORRESPONDENCE, pages 192 and 656 for letters of Thoreau mentioning Keyes. Meltzer & Harding, A THOREAU PROFILE, pages for a diary entry by Keyes about Thoreau. Association copies of Thoreau's posthumous books are scarce, and this is an important one. Contents clean. Spine sunned, gilt a little dull, and frayed at tips and along edges with a large vertical piece missing but not affecting the lettering. $2, About THE MAINE WOODS, Dave Foreman, Earth-First eco-warrior/author, has written that it is "Thoreau's finest book, far deeper and more important than WALDEN... on his two trips into the deep Maine wilderness [Thoreau] had the epiphany that enabled him to realize that 'in wildness is the preservation of the world.' MAINE not WALDEN changed American intellectual history." 37. THOREAU, Henry David. THE MAINE WOODS. [Portland, ME]: Ascensius Press, Folio (7-3/4" x 12-1/4") bound by Gray Parrot in full dark green morocco with a gilt-lettered and ruled brown morocco spine label inlay and Thoreau's signature stamped in black on the front cover. A handsome book produced entirely in Maine with a frontispiece and several small illustrations by Maine artist Jon Luoma, printed on paper handmade in Maine, and bound by Gray Parrot in Maine. Copy #44 of only 45 total copies. Laid into the book is a sheet of paper presenting the book from The Nature Conservancy to a Maine environmentalist. Quickly sold out upon publication. The making of this book was featured in the PBS television series "Made in Maine." Mild scratches to slipcase. Fine in about Fine slipcase made of solid Maine white pine.

13 38. THOREAU, Henry David. OF FRIENDSHIP. AN ESSAY FROM A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. [Boston, New York, Chicago]: The Riverside Press, First Edition. Cloth-backed charcoal-gray boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine; vi, 88, [2] pages. Copy #482 of 500 printed in red and black with a woodcut ornament on the title page. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Owner inscription dated 1902 on front endpaper; spine gilt dull. Near Fine, would make a lovely gift. 39. THOREAU, Henry David. A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN. Boston: David R. Godine, First published in 1860 in James Redpath's ECHOES OF HARPER'S FERRY, this is the first separate book printing of the first defense of John Brown. Copy #XXIX of only 50 numbered copies bound by hand in morocco-backed boards of a total edition of 750, an early example from this press. Fine. $ THOREAU, Henry David. THE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SEVEN BRAHMANS. New York: William Edwin Rudge, First Edition. Quarto in cloth-backed boards. First printing, both in facsimile and transcription, of a previously unknown Thoreau manuscript displaying his interest in Oriental literature. Limited to 1200 copies, this is one of 1000 of the trade issue. Borst A27.1.b. BAL indicates this issue as the second form, possibly the second printing. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.. $ THOREAU, Henry David. WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Rebound around the turn of the twentieth century by Crombie & Lamothe in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled paper boards with five raised bands and gilt ruling and lettering, matching marbled paper used as pastedowns and endpapers. The original cloth covers and spine, in very nice condition with gilt still bright, bound at rear, though the eight-page publisher's catalogue has not been bound in. Engraved title page and map inserted. There is a marginal dampstain in the outer top and bottom corners throughout, except on the map, rarely just touching the text but mostly not affecting any text. Small, neat bookplate of Abram Joseph Abeloff on the front endpaper. Very minor rubbing to joints. Very Good or better in an attractive binding. $6, THOREAU, Henry David. WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. New York: Limited Editions Club, Quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in black linen and blue-green paste paper-covered boards. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Steichen. Designed by D. B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. Copy #468 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. Contents fine; boards fine; spine mildly sunned with some dust spotting and crinkling at head where there is a 1/4" closed tear and a slightly smaller closed tear; slipcase lacking 3/4" piece at top outside edge otherwise quite nice. Very Good in a slipcase with a small piece missing on the top front edge.

14 43. THOREAU, Henry David. WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. New York: Limited Editions Club, Quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in black linen and blue-green paste paper-covered boards. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Steichen. Designed by D. B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. Copy #431 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. Contents fine; boards with bump to upper front corner; spine with some of the black rubbed off in a few spots but not badly sunned or worn; slipcase with one bottom edge neatly repaired the length with sympathetic brown tape otherwise quite nice. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. 44. THOREAU, Henry David. WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. New York: Limited Editions Club, Quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in black linen and blue-green paste paper-covered boards. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Steichen. Designed by D. B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. Copy #1208 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Mild bumping to spine tips; small adhesive stain on the front pastedown from bookplate once tipped in. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. "I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself." 45. THOREAU, Henry David. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original green Z cloth, Binding D, no priority. BAL notes only this binding in green P cloth. Borst A1.1.a notes only copies in brown or purple cloth. The famous Second Issue of Thoreau's first book and, other than WALDEN, the only of his books published in his lifetime. There were 1000 sets of sheets printed at the author's expense in The book did not sell well, and in 1853 the 706 remaining copies (256 bound copies and 450 in sheets) were shipped back to Thoreau, prompting the author to remark, "I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself." Over the years Thoreau occasionally sold or gave away copies. Ticknor & Fields purchased the remaining 145 bound copies and 450 unbound copies from Thoreau in 1862, publishing the book with a cancel title page and leaving the final leaf advertising the upcoming publication of WALDEN intact. As has often been noted, whoever owns a copy of this issue owns a copy once in Thoreau's library. This issue is scarcer than the First Issue of 1849, and with its personal association with Thoreau, it is quite desirable. A large, skimmed spot at the center of the front blank with slight effect on the title page is the only defect to this otherwise gorgeous copy. A spectacular example of this scarce book. $7,500.00

15 46. THOREAU, Henry David. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original brown Z cloth, Binding D, no priority. BAL does not note this binding in brown cloth though Borst A1.1.a does. The famous Second Issue of Thoreau's first book and, other than WALDEN, the only of his books published in his lifetime. There were 1000 sets of sheets printed at the author's expense in The book did not sell well, and in 1853 the 706 remaining copies (256 bound copies and 450 in sheets) were shipped back to Thoreau, prompting the author to remark, "I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself." Over the years Thoreau occasionally sold or gave away copies. Ticknor & Fields purchased the remaining 145 bound copies and 450 unbound copies from Thoreau in 1862, publishing the book with a cancel title page and leaving the final leaf advertising the upcoming publication of WALDEN intact. As has often been noted, whoever owns a copy of this issue owns a copy once in Thoreau's library. This issue is scarcer than the First Issue of 1849, and with its personal association with Thoreau, it is quite desirable. Owner name of Elizabeth dated 1865 on the front blank along with the ink name "E. B. Simpkins" on the dark brown front endpaper, possibly a relation to Emerson's publisher Samuel G. Simpkins. Contents clean, a couple of signatures slightly pulled. Spine tips frayed with about a 1/4" piece lacking at the head not affecting any lettering, gilt quite dull but readable; light wear to corners. A Good to Very Good copy. 47. THOREAU, Henry David. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. [Lunenburg]: Limited Editions Club, pages. Octavo (6-1/2" x 9-7/8") bound in green buckram and green marbled paper. Introduction by Charles R. Anderson. Printed at the Stinehour Press. One of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with drawings by Raymond Holden and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in a Fine slipcase. $ THOREAU, Henry David. WINTER: FROM THE JOURNAL OF HENRY D. THOREAU. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Reprint. Original beveled green cloth with Thoreau's signature in gilt on the front cover. First published in 1888 in an edition of 1550 copies, this is an early reprint in the same format. Contemporary owner name on front blank; rear hinge cracked but covers tight. Some spotting and rubbing to cloth. Good or better. $50.00

16 49. THOREAU, Henry David. A YANKEE IN CANADA, WITH ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM PAPERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original green C cloth, Binding A, no priority given. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Distinguished for its containing, in addition to the title piece, 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. "Civil Disobedience" influenced, among others, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. who cited it as his first intellectual contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Evidence of removal of a small bookplate on the front pastedown, pencil owner name and notes on the front endpaper; front hinge cracked but covers tight. Contents quite clean. Some edgewear to the front board else little wear. Very Good. $1, THOREAU, Henry David. A YANKEE IN CANADA, WITH ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM PAPERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original green C cloth, Binding C, no priority given. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Distinguished for its containing, in addition to the title piece, the first book publication of "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle," Thoreau's two most famous essays. "Civil Disobedience" influenced, among others, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. who cited it as his first intellectual contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Bookplate of Julian La Pierre, M.D. dated 1904 on the front pastedown. Scattered light foxing; cloth with no wear but old staining to the spine and especially the rear cover. Still a Very Good copy $ THOREAU, Henry David. A YANKEE IN CANADA, WITH ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM PAPERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Original purple C cloth, Binding A, no priority given. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Distinguished for its containing, in addition to the title piece, 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. "Civil Disobedience" influenced, among others, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. who cited it as his first intellectual contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Front flyleaf lacking though brown endpapers are present; contents quite clean. Spine sunned but gilt still bright; minor fraying to spine tips. Very Good. $800.00

17 52. THOREAU, Henry David. A YANKEE IN CANADA, WITH ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM PAPERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Bound in contemporary half dark green morocco and marbled boards with matching morocco corners. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Distinguished for its containing, in addition to the title piece, 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. "Civil Disobedience" influenced, among others, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. who cited it as his first intellectual contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Internally Fine in a Fine, attractive binding. $ (THOREAU, Henry David) [Jones, Samuel Arthur] editor. PERTAINING TO THOREAU. Detroit: Edwin B. Hill, First Edition. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; xviii, 171 pages. Although there is no indication of such, this title was apparently limited to only 225 copies according to an issue of The Thoreau Society Bulletin dated July 1949 and the original prospectus, not present here. A collection of ten essays and reviews, some of the earliest appreciations or criticisms of Thoreau. Includes George Ripley's and James Russell Lowell's reviews of Thoreau's first book, Charles Frederick Briggs's review of WALDEN, as well as a piece by Amos Bronson Alcott and Henry Williams's memories of the Harvard Class of 1837, where he was a classmate of Thoreau's. Light wear. Near Fine. $ The editor was Thoreau's first bibliographer. Publisher Edwin Hill was one of the outstanding pioneers in the spreading of Thoreau's fame. He set the type of this book by hand, a task that took nearly two years, as he was also working as a full-time journalist during the process, and from which he suffered a breakdown that led to tuberculosis. 54. [THOREAU, Henry David] BORST, Raymond. HENRY DAVID THOREAU. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Pittsburgh: University of Pitt., First Edition. Comprehensive and the only Thoreau bibliography to be based on the principles of modern textual scholarship with complete descriptions of the primary editions and a list of all subsequent editions. Illustrated with plates and facsimiles. With information on Thoreau material first printed in magazines, pamphlets, and books. Near Fine without dustwrapper, as issued. 55. [THOREAU, Henry David] SANBORN, F. B. THE PERSONALITY OF THOREAU. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Copy #373 of 500 copies on French hand-made paper, printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with one plate and two facsimiles of Thoreau's journal. Bookplate of noted collector Luther A. Brewer, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, tipped to the front pastedown. Spine label darkened and chipped; mild edgewear. Very Good. $75.00