The Thoreau Collection of Kevin Mac Donnell

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1 The Walden Woods Project Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods Detail from Walking autograph MS leaf Original catalog prepared by Kevin Mac Donnell Revised and updated by Jeffrey S. Cramer and Reggie Gay THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT,

2 The Thoreau Collection of Kevin Mac Donnell The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 2

3 The Kevin Mac Donell Collection On my first day as Curator of Collections at the Walden Woods Project s Thoreau Institute, someone had left on my desk a copy of Firsts: The Book Collector s Magazine. It was the September 1999 issue, otherwise known as the Thoreau issue. The entire issue was written by Kevin Mac Donnell, a book collector from Austin, Texas, who described the art of collecting Thoreau. At the time Firsts came out, Kevin had been collecting rare books since He started his career as a rare books cataloger in the University of Houston before working for a large book firm and then branching out on his own rare books business in As I got acquainted with the collections that in combination formed the most comprehensive gathering of Thoreau material available in one place, I couldn t help but read a few of Kevin s descriptions and wish that somehow we could add this or that item to what we already had. We had first editions of Walden but none as pristine as the one Kevin described. We had first editions of his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, but none that contained penciled corrections by Thoreau himself something he sometimes did when he personally gave or sold a copy. We had several Thoreau manuscripts the complete 2 nd draft of the Sir Walter Raleigh essay, Thoreau s earliest extant letter, and leaves from Cape Cod and Life without Principle but wouldn t it be amazing to add a leaf from Walden, the holy grail and rarest of Thoreau manuscripts, or leaves from Walking? Each item Kevin described was a curator s dream. It was the best-known Thoreau collection still in private hands. And then in April of 2014 a two-page prospectus came outlining this very collection as being for sale, with a complete inventory following, and after several discussions I found myself on a plane to Austin to see if what I had read about was really what it purported to be. Kevin opened the glass doors to one of the bookcases and took out one item at a time. He handed me a first edition of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers that belonged to Thoreau s Aunt Maria. Kevin remembers his astonishment when this book came his way. I d seen it described, he said, in an old issue of The Month at Goodspeed s, despairing that all of the truly wonderful things had long ago vanished from the market. It was not a book Thoreau s aunt read with joy and understanding. In one place, where her nephew wrote, Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand, Aunt Maria caustically penciled, A needless prayer for the author. There were two books from Thoreau s personal library, Disraeli s Curiosities of Literature and Jacob Houghton s Reports on the Mineral Region of Lake Superior, a brick from the Texas House (the family home Thoreau built with his father), and the 1852 Walling map which notes White Pond and Walden Pond from Surveys by H. D. Thoreau, Civ. Engr. in its original rollers and wall hanger. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 3

4 There were curiosities like an early example of exploiting Thoreau s name in advertising, and a unique only-known-copy of a brass plaque portrait of Thoreau by the anarchist Jules Scarceriaux who was also an artist. Kevin showed me a copy of Thoreau s posthumous A Yankee in Canada owned by Ellen Sewall, the only woman Thoreau is known to have loved. As she read it in 1869 she made light pencil markings next to lines that clearly showed what she thought Thoreau gave to the world. Towards the end of my visit, when I thought it couldn t get any better, he brought out two manuscript leaves of Walking and the final piece I was shown that day: a manuscript leaf from Walden. Manuscript leaves or fragments from Walden are extremely rare. As I stood in Austin, Texas, reading the words on the manuscript, and thought of the Thoreau Institute Library on Baker Farm in Lincoln, Massachusetts, I knew that there was only one place where this collection should be housed. The manuscript read: Oh Baker Farm! Landscape where the richest element Is a little sunshine innocent. Jeffrey S. Cramer, Curator of Collections, The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, 2015 The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 4

5 Thoreau in the Crosshairs For the reader an author is a narrator, a mentor, a sort of acquaintance, a correspondent, a teacher, a gadfly, or many other things, but not a target. For the book collector an author is a target to be stalked, brought up in the crosshairs, and eventually run to ground. For collectors of Thoreau the hunt can be frustrating. He published only two books during his lifetime and the periodicals in which his writings appeared are either fragile or scarce in the marketplace, and often both. Making matters worse, nearly all of the nineteenth century editions of his writings were printed in relatively small editions and bound in cloth that is prone to fading and embrittlement, to say nothing of hinges that crack and sewing that unravels. Collectible Thoreau material often seems as elusive as the hound, bay horse, and turtle-dove Thoreau tells us he lost and spent a lifetime in hopes of recovering. The collector often meets a bookseller or fellow collector who claims to have heard the hound, the tramp of the horse, or even to have seen the turtle-dove disappear behind a cloud, and those booksellers and fellow collectors seem as anxious to find them as if they had lost them themselves. Reducing Thoreau s wonderful trio of metaphors from Walden to the frantic grubbing of a book collector is surely a blasphemy, but no collector who has watched his prey disappear behind a cloud would see it that way. For the benefit of non-collectors it should be mentioned that clouds come in different darkening shapes other collectors, other bidders, other booksellers, and other expenses that empty the bank account. Among the earliest to collect Henry David Thoreau was Calvin H. Greene who was wisely advised by Thoreau that you have the best of me in my books. Like all book collectors, Greene began as a reader, although to judge by the condition of his copy of The Maine Woods in this collection, he was a careful reader in more ways than one. There was no expectation of owning that book when I began collecting Thoreau in the late 1960s or any expectation of finding very many of the books that eventually found their way onto my shelves, certainly not in pristine condition. After consulting the catalogues of famous collectors like Stephen H. Wakeman and Carrol A. Wilson it was hard not to envy their good fortune to have lived when such wonderful books and materials were still in the market (as well as their pocketbooks). But after collecting for several years it was clear that good material was still turning up, sometimes not even fully appreciated for what it was. For material that was fully appreciated for what it was, funds were laid aside in hopes of future opportunities. There was pickiness and poverty at the beginning, but there was also patience (and a patient wife!) and some luck, and the opportunities did come. It was my good fortune to meet booksellers like John S. Van E. Kohn, Michael Papantonio, Max Hunley, and George Goodspeed, and to have the encouragement of seasoned and generous collectors like C. E. Frazer Clark and J. Harold Kittleson, and the wise counsel of scholars like Walter Harding and Kenneth The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 5

6 Walter Cameron, and bibliographers like Ray Borst. Others could be named and some good stories told, but one will suffice. While most collectors of modern authors hope to someday meet the author whose writings they admire and collect, no sane collector of a nineteenth century author would harbor such a hope, but one startling moment does stand out in my memory. There was the story heard of a Thoreau scholar who came to Concord in the 1940s or 50s and knocked on the door of an elderly woman whose family had known the Emerson and Thoreau families, hoping that she might recall some stories passed down in her own family. The lady answered the door and when asked about Thoreau, replied that she could not think of any stories herself but suggested that the scholar talk to her older sister who had met Thoreau when she was a little girl, and she then called her post-centenarian sister to the parlor. Starting a little over 100 years after Thoreau s death, there was no hope of a similar experience, but one did come close. In the 1980s I met an elderly lady in Concord who had met Thoreau s friend Frank Sanborn when she was a little girl. She had come to the general store in Concord with her father and was dressed in overalls like every little girl from a farm. Sanborn strolled into the store, mistook her for a little boy, patted her on the head, and called her mighty handsome. Just the memory of that meeting made her angry all over again, but she was able to laugh as she mumbled about that old fool. Naturally, I chided her for not asking him about Thoreau while she had the chance. As enchanting as that encounter was for me, books and manuscripts that belonged to Thoreau s family and friends, or and to Thoreau himself, provide connections no less thrilling. Through these books I have met Thoreau s aunt Maria who likely bailed her stubborn nephew out of jail, Judge Hoar who brought his dying friend hyacinths, Ellen Sewall who was at one point in Thoreau s short life the only thing separating him from the heavens, H. G. O. Blake who discovered that the meaning of the letters Thoreau had sent him were still in the mail when he reread them decades later, and finally Thoreau himself just at the moment when he was touching up his manuscript of Walden. Anyone who has worked with Thoreau s original manuscripts experiences Thoreau s texts in a way that is sacrificed when transplanted to the printed page. Thoreau s rolling script unfurls across the paper like a banner in the breeze in an ever-flowing stream of consciousness, but his interlinear pencil revisions are often choppy and hesitant and are witness to his more deliberative creative process. Even if the ratio of ink and pencil varies on each page, Thomas Edison s comment that genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration comes to mind as you hold in your hand Thoreau s inky inspirations and his penciled perspirations. All who now study these books and manuscripts will also meet Thoreau, his family, and his friends. To borrow out of context from a certain southern writer of some renown: The past is never dead. It s not even past. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 6

7 The beginnings of my collecting of Thoreau coincided with my collecting of Mark Twain. These two names are not often linked but they are literary kinsmen just the same. Both had a sly sense of humor, both lost brothers dear to them in tragic accidents, both rebelled against slavery, both rejected war, and both wrote books that transport the reader down life-changing rivers. They also share the distinction of writing books that resonate so deeply that many readers return throughout their lives to reread them, the way Blake returned to his friend s letters again and again. Who among us is drawn back to reread Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, War and Peace, Madame Bovary, or Paradise Lost? Who can read Paradise Lost even once without suppressing a Bovarian urge for arsenic? Mark Twain may have traveled further afield albeit less extensively than Thoreau, quarreled more openly with God, lived larger, and ambled across a wider stage, but both lit out for the territories in their literary imaginations and envisioned an America that would someday realize its promise. Space considerations made this the right time for me to part with my Thoreau library, and although the Mark Twain library will stay a bit longer, the vision of America they share will never be relinquished. It is fitting that Thoreau s vision is being preserved and shared at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. Kevin Mac Donnell, Austin, Texas, 2015 The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 7

8 Engraving from Thoreau s Excursions. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 8

9 THE THOREAU COLLECTION OF KEVIN MAC DONNELL 1. Harvard University. TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Cambridge: Hillard & Metcalf, First editions. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt. Thoreau is listed in the catalogs for 1839, 1842, and Catalogus Harvardianus, 1839, p. 66 The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 9

10 2. D Israeli, Isaac. CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. New York: William Pearson, Three volumes bound in one. Original three quarter calf and marbled boards, label, gilt. From Thoreau s library, with his ink signature on title page and later inscription from his sister Sophia to Elizabeth Jordan Weir of Concord. Sophia also gave Weir the proof sheets of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Wakeman, entry 994). Weir was governess of the Emerson children with whom Thoreau also spent much time. Curiosities, First and Second Series, is bound with The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Genius, continuous pagination and same imprint. Contains articles of vital interest to Thoreau: Sir Walter Raleigh (the subject of Thoreau s only biography), libraries, literary journals, poverty of the learned, men of genius deficient in conversation, the student in the metropolis, literary follies, literary controversy, manuscripts and books, critics, origin of the materials of writing, solitude, literary friendships, literary composition, diaries, quotation, local descriptions, philosophy of proverbs, confusion of words, toleration, buildings in the metropolis and residence in the country, literary residences, the man of one book, discoveries of secluded men, literary characters, the spirit of literature, literary solitude, meditations of genius, the matrimonial state, the influence of authors, etc. This extremely popular work was first published in 1791 and was widely read by younger writers like Byron and Southey; the first American edition appeared in 1793 (Philadelphia). A compilation of more than 250 articles, Curiosities of Literature went through thirteen editions during the author s lifetime; the final (14th) edition was published posthumously in This volume was listed by Thoreau in his inventory of his library (Sanborn, p. 511). Harding, Thoreau s Library, pp. 20, 23, and 45. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. 3, p. 1,277. Sanborn, Life of Henry David Thoreau, p. 511 Sattelmeyer, Thoreau's Reading, p. 167, entry Harvard University. A CATALOGUE OF THE OFFICERS AND STUDENTS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Cambridge: Harvard University, vols. First editions. Original printed wrappers. Thoreau is listed among the students. 4. Harvard University. ILLUSTRISSIMO EDWARDO EVERETT. Cambridge: Harvard University, First edition. Leaflet, folded, as issued. The commencement program for Thoreau s graduating class, listing him among those making a presentation. Others in this illustrious graduating class included author Richard The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 10

11 Henry Dana, surgeon Henry Jacob Bigelow who was first to publish a description of using ether during surgery, ethnologist Horatio Emmons Hale (son of Sarah Josepha Hale, author of Mary Had a Little Lamb ), and future railroad magnate Samuel Morse Felton. Borst, Thoreau Log, pp Detail from Order of Exercises for Commencement, XXX August, MDCCCXXXVII 5. THE DIAL: A MAGAZINE FOR LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION. Boston: Jordan & Co., October 1841-July First editions. Original tan printed wrappers. This magazine lasted just sixteen issues. Margaret Fuller edited the first eight issues and Emerson edited the last eight. According to a letter written by Emerson, the first number was published with just thirty subscribers signed up (Mott, vol. 1, p. 704). Brooks (Emerson and Others, pp. 28-9) says that there were 100 subscribers at end of Fuller s tenure, and that under Emerson there were 220 subscribers. Mott also adds that its circulation never exceeded three hundred, and probably never quite reached that figure and, according to George Willis Cooke, in 1872 the remaining unsold copies, stored in Emerson s attic, were burned or sold to the ragman (Mott, vol. 1, p. 702). Number 6. October Margaret Fuller editor. Thoreau s contribution was his poem, Friendship. Number 7. January Margaret Fuller editor. No Thoreau contributions. Number 8: April Margaret Fuller editor. No Thoreau contributions, but some leaves from Bronson Alcott s diary. Number 9. July Ralph Waldo Emerson editor. Thoreau s contributions were Natural History of Massachusetts and Metrical Prayer. This copy belonged to William Abijah White ( ), brother of J. R. Lowell s first wife, Maria White, and fellow member of the literary group in the 1840s that included Lowell, Maria, and William Wetmore Story, and was variously known as the Brother and Sister Club, Band of Brothers and Sisters and The Club. Number 13. July Ralph Waldo Emerson editor. No Thoreau contributions. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 187, entry D6. Mott, A History of American Magazines, vol. 1: pp The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 11

12 The Dial, April 1842, back cover The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 12

13 6. Emerson, Ralph W. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN THE COURT-HOUSE IN CONCORD Boston: James Munroe, First edition, first state of wrappers. Original brown printed wrappers. Housed in cloth slipcase, leather label. Emerson s An Address delivered in the Courthouse in Concord wrapper The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 13

14 Thoreau negotiated the publication of this speech, and may have helped Emerson prepare it for publication. On April 28, 1863, the year after Thoreau died, Emerson recorded in his journal that on the 1 August, 184[4], when I read my Discourse on Emancipation, in the Town Hall, in Concord, and the selectmen would not direct the sexton to ring the meetinghouse bell, Henry went himself, and rung the bell at the appointed hour (The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. XV, pp ). Bibliography of American Literature, entry 5199 (vol. 3, p. 22). Myerson, p. 144, entry A17.1.a. 7. TEXAS HOUSE CELLAR BRICK [Concord, MA, ca. 1844] Secondhand brick with traces of mortar. Dug from the cellar of the Texas House by Edward G. Fletcher on July 15, 1961, with his label affixed. Thoreau helped his father build the Texas House, which served as the family s home from fall 1844 to August 29, 1850, when they moved into the home on Main Street where Thoreau died in Thoreau s sister Helen died there in After moving the next year, the Thoreau family rented out the Texas House until November 12, 1863, when they sold it. Thoreau dug and stoned the cellar of the Texas House, and undoubtedly set this brick. The construction of this house prepared Thoreau for building his Walden Pond home in In the Housewarming chapter of Walden, Thoreau mentions the difficulty of chipping mortar from secondhand bricks for his Walden fireplace. The Texas House was so named because it stood on Texas Street (now Belknap Street) near the train depot; it was damaged by a hurricane in 1937, and partly destroyed by fire in January 1938, and was demolished in the spring of The house had a shed in back that housed the pencilmaking business, and the door leading to that room was salvaged and donated to the Concord Antiquarian Society (Wood, pp , with an excellent photo of the Texas House showing some cellar bricks above ground level). Edward G. Fletcher ( ) was an English Professor at University of Texas from , and was the author of several books on the theater, Samuel Johnson (including the Limited Editions Club edition of Boswell s Life of Johnson), and poetry ( ). After retiring he moved back to Portland, Maine. Harding, A Thoreau Profile, pp. 15 (photo), 292, and 300. Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 263 (Summer, 2008), p. 7. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 14

15 8. Houghton, Jacob. REPORTS ON THE MINERAL REGION OF LAKE SUPERIOR: WITH A CORRECT MAP OF THE SAME AND A CHART OF LAKE SUPERIOR. Buffalo: L. Danforth, First edition. Original purple cloth, gilt, large folding map. Inscribed Henry D. Thoreau from E. P. Dorr, July 16th, In solander case. TLS from George Hellman saying he took this volume from the same trunk that held the manuscript of Walden. Captain Ebenezer Pearson Dorr ( ) ran a steamboat service on Lake Erie and once escorted Frank Sanborn from Buffalo to Niagara on a train in Dorr s son boarded at Mrs. Thoreau s where he was often visited by his father, according to Sanborn (Life of Henry David Thoreau, p. 374). On March 13, 1857, Thoreau noted a conversation he had with Dorr about the Great Lakes (Journal, vol. IX: p. 290). Thoreau included this book in his inventory of his library (Sanborn, p. 508). Harding, Thoreau s Library, p. 60. Sanborn, Life of Thoreau, p Sattelmeyer, Thoreau s Reading, p. 205, entry PENCIL J. THOREAU & SON Concord, MA, ca Writing pencil, with square lead (0.2 cm) and cedar or walnut body (0.6 cm in diameter), marked J. Thorea Sharpening has obscured the rest of the mark: u & Son. This used pencil measures 11.6 cm; unused examples measure 16.3 cm. Kept in a green box with one similar pencil marked London. Laid in is a note typed by Paul Seybolt: This green cardboard box dating from about 1846 (perhaps even earlier) is from the shop of J. Thoreau and Son. Concord, Mass. and contained a supply of the pencils manufactured there by the firm 4/66. Seybolt has also written a note on the letterhead of Carroll A. Wilson (April 16, 1943, while visiting Wilson) using Wilson s unique carpenter s pencil made by the firm (see Wilson, Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century, vol. I, p. 337 for a description). Gift of George Goodspeed, with his card laid in. Goodspeed told Mac Donnell that he sold Seybolt this pencil and box; Goodspeed, who lived in Concord many years, sold unused bundles of Thoreau pencils (The Parkman Dexter Howe Library, Part II, p. 11, entry HDT 9) and even an advertising poster (PDHL, Part II, pp. 2 & 10, entry HDT 6); these unused bundles were discovered in the attic of the Thoreau family home on Main Street in Concord and reported in The Book-Lover (number 8, Summer 1901, p. 337). Details of the Thoreau pencil business are nicely summarized by David Wood in An Observant Eye, pp The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 15

16 10. [Lowell, James R.] A FABLE FOR CRITICS. New York: G. P. Putnam, First edition, fourth state. Original drab grey boards, paper label. A remarkably fine copy; from the library of Stephen H. Wakeman with a pencil note by Wakeman laid in: the finest copy in boards I have ever seen The edition was 1,000 copies. Lowell s great satirical verse on his fellow writers, including Thoreau, Holmes, Emerson, Alcott, Poe, Longfellow, Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, and, of course, himself. Thoreau is described on p. 30 as treading in Emerson s tracks, picking his pockets for ideas, and stealing fruit from his orchard for inspiration. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 6, p. 28). Wakeman, entry 830 (Sold to George J.C. Grassberger, a book dealer in Philadelphia for $45). Scharnhorst, p. 6, entry Thoreau, Henry D. KTAADN, AND THE MAINE WOODS [contained in] THE UNION MAGAZINE. Vol. II. New York: James L. DeGraw, First edition. Original full black morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, all edges gilt, gilt with subscriber s name on front cover. Contains all five installments of Thoreau s travel pieces on Maine, a story by Walt Whitman, a sonnet and a prose piece by Poe, a sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others. With all of the wonderful color plates, mezzotints, wood engravings, etc. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 191, entry D38. Lomazow, entry 525a, p Mott, History of American Magazines, vol. 1, pp The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 16

17 Detail showing engraving, The Union Magazine, July 1848, p Thoreau, Henry D. RESISTANCE TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT [contained in] AESTHETIC PAPERS. Boston: The Editor; New York: G. P. Putnam, First edition. Unbound sheets, possibly a proof, unsewn, uncut and unopened, perhaps the only copy known in this state. Bookplate of Philo Calhoun. Housed in half morocco case. Contains the first printing of Thoreau s Resistance to Civil Government. Also contains the first printings of Emerson s War and Hawthorne s Main Street. Edited by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and published in May 1849; subsequent issues were planned but never published. As Edward Chielens remarks, Only fifty subscriptions were secured and the bookstore copies sold poorly (Chielens, p. 8). Wakeman (entry 299) describes a set in sheets and notes This copy comes from Mr. Foley who says it was retained by the printer for his use. Possibly this copy; the slipcase is similar to those used by Wakeman, whose copy was in a cloth box-case. Sometime about 1930 the attic of Elizabeth Peabody s Washington DC The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 17

18 home was emptied, yielding Thoreau pencils and miscellaneous printed pieces; it is possible this copy was found there, and is a second copy in addition to Wakeman s. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 5217 (vol. 3, p. 25), 7599 (vol. 4, p. 8), & (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 191, entry D39. Chielens, American Literary Magazines, pp Clark, Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 387, entry C20. Gohdes, The Periodicals of American Transcendentalism, pp Mott: not cited. Myerson, p. 604, entry D18. Wilson, Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century, vol. I, p. 139 (with a reference to a remainder in sheets ). 13. Thoreau, Henry D. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Boston: James Munroe, First edition, trade binding. Original black T cloth, plain stamping. Ownership inscription on front end paper: William P. Mason, Jr. /56, Boston. Thoreau s first book, of which 1,000 copies were printed (550 were issued with the 1849 titlepage). In October 1853, the publisher shipped 706 unsold copies to Thoreau (256 bound; 450 in sheets) and Thoreau sold or gave away 111 of the bound copies before his death. This copy is a more interesting one than it might first appear. In October 1854, Thoreau sold twelve copies back to Ticknor & Fields who rendered an accounting in February 1857, reporting them as sold, and within days requested twelve more copies. From the date and place in the inscription, this would appear to be one of the twelve copies sold by Ticknor & Fields between October 1854 and February 1857, which they obtained directly from Thoreau. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 253). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 2, entry A1.1.a 1. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 43 (1949), pp Thoreau, Henry D. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Boston: James Munroe, First edition, presentation binding. Original light tan T cloth, elaborately stamped. Expert repair to front joint; otherwise a very good crisp copy. From the library of Thoreau s maiden paternal aunt (Maria Thoreau, ) with her signature and date on end paper ( Maria Thoreau, June 30, ), her notes in the text, and five corrections of the text in Thoreau s hand. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 18

19 Maria Thoreau s signature from her copy of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The book was published May 26, Aunt Maria read Walden in manuscript form. In the 1840s and 1850s she lived as a boarder in the Thoreau family home. She is generally thought to be the mystery woman who paid Thoreau s tax to get him out of jail, and she often told the story about Emerson s supposed visit with Thoreau in jail. With this copy is a 1949 issue of The Month at Goodspeed s offering this copy for $ Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 253). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 2, entry A1.1.a 1. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 43 (1949), pp Sartain, John, ed. SARTAIN S UNION MAGAZINE. Philadelphia: Published by John Sartain & Co. 2 vols. (January-August 1852). First edition of the final two volumes of this magazine (X and XI). Original publisher s full crimson morocco, fully gilt, all edges gilt, with all of the color plates and salvage engravings from Graham s Magazine present (and without all of the Sartain engravings, as usual). Volume X consisted of the issues for January through June, and volume XI included only the issues for July and August, the final two issues. The title-page and index for volume X only. After August 1852, the magazine s subscription was continued by the National Magazine and John Sartain, the former business manager for Graham s Magazine worked more than seven years to pay the debts he incurred when he left Graham to run this magazine. The May 1852 issue contains Jules Verne s first American appearance in print, A Voyage in a Balloon. The July 1852 issue contains the first appearance of any part of Thoreau s Walden in print, The Iron Horse. The August 1852 issue contains the second appearance of a Walden excerpt, A Poet Buying a Farm. Lomazow, entries 525a & 525b, p Mott, A History of American Magazines, vol. 1, pp The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 19

20 16. Walling, Henry F. MAP OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD. [Boston, 1852.] Wall map, 32 x 24 inches. Printed in colors on linen-backed lacquered paper, with ebonized wooden rollers at top and bottom, with ribbon ties, metal hangers, and silk edging wholly intact. This map depicts Thoreau s famous survey of Walden Pond two years before Walden was published; it also shows the homes (labeled by owners) of the Thoreaus, Emersons, Hawthornes, Channing, Hoar, Hosmer, Minott, Bartlett, etc., as well as the landmarks that figure into Walden. The copy of this map at Middlebury College is thought to have been Thoreau s own. Concord Free Public Library has several examples, possibly the gift of Sophia Thoreau, there is one at Library of Congress, and one example is known in Emerson s library. This is by far the best copy Mac Donnell has located. He knows of two others framed and matted without their rollers, one other example in a private collection with the rollers intact, and another with one roller replaced. He does not know the conditions of all of the institutional copies. The following statement appears in the key: Town lines are laid down principally from old Surveys. White Pond and Walden Pond from Surveys by H. D. Thoreau, Civ. Engr. Key from 1852 Map of the Town of Concord Henry Francis Walling ( ) produced similar maps for many New England counties and villages. This map is partly pictured in A Thoreau Gazetteer, pp Bibliography of American Literature: not cited Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive: Bibliography: not cited Harding, Emerson s Library, p Moss, A Catalogue of Thoreau s Surveys in the Concord Public Library (1976). 17. Briggs, Charles F., ed. HOMES OF AMERICAN AUTHORS. New York & London: George P. Putnam, copies. First editions. A run of every known binding and state. The first book to contain a description of Thoreau at Walden Pond. On November 26, 1852, the book was advertised in cloth ($5), gilt extra ($6), morocco extra ($8), and proofs ($12). However, copies with the color illustrations on proof, paper are found in all the bindings, and this ad does not mention the two distinct styles of morocco bindings. Charles Frederick Briggs ( ) The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 20

21 was an author and editor who also write under the pseudonym, Harry Franco. He also worked as a managing editor for Putnam s Monthly Magazine. Copy 1: First printing. Color illustrations on India paper, with dual imprint (no priority), binding A (no priority), state 3 of page 337 (as usual). Original full green morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, inner dentilles gilt, edges rolled in gilt, covers fully gilt, all edges gilt, with five-pointed ornamental inner corners of covers. The spine compartment gilding differs from my other copies. Copy 2: First printing. Color illustrations on India paper, with the dual London imprint (no priority), binding C (no priority), state 2 of page 337 (with the very rare pasted in slip on page 337). Original brown cloth, top edge gilt, title in blind (not gilt) on covers, and no recessed panels. The publisher s normal cloth binding. Both of Mac Donnell s copies in Pawson & Nicholson bindings also have p. 337 in state 2 (see copies 10 & 11). Copy 3: First printing. Color illustrations printed on India paper, with the single imprint (no priority), binding B (no priority), state 3 of page 337 (as usual). Original medium green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, with title in gilt on covers, and no recessed panels. The publisher s extra gilt binding. Bibliography of American Literature notes cloth copies only in brown and blue. Copy 4: First printing. Color illustrations printed on India paper, with the single imprint (no priority), binding C, state 3 of page 337 (as usual). Original dark green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Copy 5: Second printing. Color illustrations printed directly on the page, with the double imprint (no priority), binding D (no priority), state 3 of page 337 (as usual). Original blue cloth, gilt extra, all edges gilt, with recessed panel on front and back covers. With two bookplates of Glasgow publisher Blackie & Son, with several passages in the texts marked for deletion in the sections for Irving, Cooper, Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Kennedy, and Lowell, excluding the mention of Bronson Alcott but retaining the description of Thoreau at Walden Pond. Blackie & Son did not reprint this volume but may have reprinted some of the biographical information in their other reprints of these more popular authors. The publisher s most elaborate cloth binding. Copy 6: First printing. Color illustrations printed on India paper, with single imprint (no priority), binding A (no priority), state 3 of page 337 (as usual). Original full olive green morocco, raised bands, spine and covers blind-stamped with filigree border and blank rectangle at center, inner dentilles and edges rolled in blind, all edges gilt. Copy 7: First printing. Color illustrations on India paper, the single imprint (no priority), binding A (no priority), state 3 of page 337 (as usual). Original full deep purple-black morocco, raised bands, gilt compartment, inner dentilles gilt, edges rolled in gilt, covers fully gilt, all edges gilt, with five-pointed ornament at inner corners of covers. The spine compartment gilding differs from other copies in the Mac Donnell Collection. Copy 8: Second printing. Color illustrations printed directly on text paper, with dual London imprint (no priority), binding A (no priority), state 3 of page 337 (as usual). Original full green morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, inner dentilles gilt, The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 21

22 edges rolled in gilt, covers fully gilt, all edges gilt, with five-pointed ornament at inner corner of covers. The spine compartment gilding differs from other copies in the Mac Donnell Collection. Copy 9: Second printing. Color illustrations printed directly on text paper, with dual London imprint (no priority), binding A (no priority), state 3 of page 337 (as usual). Original full deep green-black morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, inner dentilles gilt, edges rolled in gilt, covers fully gilt, all edges gilt, with circles instead of five-pointed ornaments at inner corners of covers. This copy differs from the usual gilt-stamping on the covers, and the spine compartment gilding differs from other copies in the Mac Donnell Collection as well. Copy 10: First printing. Color illustrations on India paper, with the single imprint (no priority), and state 2 of page 337 (with the very rare pasted in slip on page 337). Original full crimson morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, inner dentilles gilt, edges rolled in gilt, covers fully gilt, all edges gilt, red silk marker. Not a publisher s binding, but similar, and signed by Pawson & Nicholson (Philadelphia). James B. Nicholson wrote A Manual on the Art of Book-binding (1856). See Maser 52 for an example of a less elaborate Pawson & Nicholson signed binding. The other copy in the Mac Donnell Collection in a Pawson & Nicholson binding (copy 11) is a publisher s binding and also has state 2 of page 337, as does copy 2. Copy 11: First printing. Color illustrations on India paper, with the single imprint (no priority), and state 2 of page 337 (with the very rare pasted in slip on page 337). Original full green morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, inner dentilles gilt, edges rolled in gilt, covers fully gilt, all edges gilt. The gilt-stamping on this copy is unlike that on my other copies, but the end papers and general design is the same as the other known publisher s bindings. This is most certainly a publisher s binding, unlike the other copy in a bespoke Pawson & Nicholson binding (copy 10). Like that copy, this is signed by Pawson & Nicholson (Philadelphia) with their stamp on the end paper. From the evidence of these two copies it would seem that Pawson & Nicholson produced binding for the publisher as well as bespoke binding for local customers. The other copy in the Mac Donnell Collection in a Pawson & Nicholson binding also has page 337 in state 2, as does copy 2. James B. Nicholson wrote A Manual on the Art of Book-binding (1856). See Maser 52 for an example of a less elaborate Pawson & Nicholson signed binding. Copy 12: First printing. Color illustrations on India paper, the single imprint (no priority), binding A-variant, state 3 of page 337 (as usual). Original full brown embossed morocco, raised bands, inner dentilles gilt, edges rolled in gilt, covers blind-stamped with six-rule border and oval ornament at center, all edges gilt, brass clasps (one lacking). The cover blind-stamping differs from that found on other blind-stamped brown morocco copies; the spine stamping is identical. This is the only copy Mac Donnell has seen with clasps (they are original, applied after the leather and before the end papers were pasted down). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 22

23 Bennett, A Practical Guide to Nineteenth Century Color-Plate Books: p. 58. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 1345 (vol. 1, p. 276), 4264 (vol. 2, p. 368), & (vol. 8, pp ). McGrath, American Colorplate Books, p. 27. Not in Reese. Scharnhorst, p. 22, entry 132. Thompson, American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, p PUTNAM S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (Vols. I-X, January 1853 September 1857, complete set of the first series). New York: G. P. Putnam [and] Dix, Edwards, Nine volumes. First editions. Publisher s original green cloth, heavily gilt with corn stalks and sugar cane on spines. A lovely set, with the rarely seen ninth volume that contains volume IX plus the three issues that comprised volume X. This set includes important contributions from both Thoreau and Herman Melville. Circulation dropped from an initial 20,000 to 12,000 and Dix, Edwards took over publication in Ownership changed again in 1857 when the magazine was merged with Emerson s United States Magazine. The magazine was revived in January 1868 and lasted only until November A magazine of the same title, unconnected with the first two series, was launched in 1906 and ceased publication in Thoreau s An Excursion to Canada appeared in four installments in January, February, and March (installments 3 and 4) 1853, and Cape Cod appeared in three installments in June, July, and August The first of Melville s eight contributions was printed in November 1853 and his last appeared in May 1856; they comprised the most important magazine printings of his works during his lifetime: Israel Potter (the entire novel, in nine installments), Bartleby, the Scrivener, The Encantadas, The Lightning Rod Man, The Bell Tower, Benito Cereno, The Apple Tree Table, and I and My Chimney. Also included are several reviews of Melville s works, as well as first printings of Emerson (including his only contribution to this magazine and a book review), Longfellow (including all six of his contributions), Lowell, and others. Mott, A History of American Magazines, vol. 2, pp The Parkman Dexter Howe Library, Part II, p. 12, entry HDT 13 & p. 13, entry HDT 17, & p. 23, entries RWE 79-80; Part III, p. 34, entry HWL 132, p. 35, entries HWL 137 & 139, and p. 36, entries HWL 142-4; Part VI, pp , entries HM 14, 15, 17, & 19, and pp , entries HM 22, 24, 26, 27, & 30. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 23

24 19. THALATTA: A BOOK FOR THE SEA-SIDE. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Contains a poem by Thoreau. One of 1,500 copies printed. The editors were Samuel Longfellow and T. W. Higginson. Copy 1: First edition. Original blue cloth, extra gilt. Inscribed by the editor, Samuel Longfellow, to Charles Appleton, June 8, One of 1,500 copies printed. Copy 2: Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, First edition, extra gilt gift binding, with May ads. Original sage green cloth, gilt. Orange end papers. Copy 3: First edition, with May ads. Original brown cloth, gilt. First binding with subtitle present on spine; red-brown endpapers. From the library of Maude Howe Elliott. Elliott was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe who attended the kindergarten of Elizabeth P. Peabody, knew Henry James, Longfellow, Emerson, etc., and became an author herself. Contains a poem by Thoreau. One of 1,500 copies printed. The editors were Samuel Longfellow, and a TLS from Higginson. Copy 4: First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Variant binding with subtitle absent from spine; brown end papers; no ads. Copy 5: First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Variant binding with subtitle absent from spine; yellow end papers; no ads. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 1380 (vol. 1, p. 283) & vol. 8, p. 281, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 173, entry C Thoreau, Henry D. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT LEAVES FROM THE ESSAY WALKING. [Concord, MA, 1853.] Four pages on two leaves, in ink, corrected in pencil. One of Thoreau s most important essays, written as a lecture in 1853; these leaves are from an early lecture draft. Howarth: not cited. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 24

25 Detail from Walking manuscript leaf 21. Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN; OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition, with September ads, map. Original brown cloth, gilt. Very likely the finest copy known, pictured on the cover of Firsts Magazine (September, 1999). One of 2,000 copies printed. In the first ten months after publication 738 copies were sold. In this copy gathering 30 is normal, and the period in the spine imprint does not look like an inverted comma. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 254). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 16, entry A2.1.a. One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry 63. Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 117 (Fall, 1986), p. 8. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 25

26 22. Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN; OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition, with May ads, map, unique variant with canceled leaves in last gathering. Original brown cloth, gilt. One of 2,000 copies printed. In this copy, when the period in the spine imprint is examined under magnification it resembles an inverted comma. In the first ten months after publication, 738 copies were sold. This copy (and a copy at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island) displays a rare example of a variant binder s state. The last signature (23) was misfolded with the result that the leaves with the inner and outer forms were reversed (the first and last leaves become the second and third leaves; the second and third become the first and last leaves). The error was caught by the binder after the gatherings had been sewn, but before trimming, and the last leaf (a blank) was simply excised, and the first leaf was then excised and pasted onto the stub left by the removal of the blank leaf, thus putting the three text leaves in correct order, without requiring that this copy be discarded or resewn. In the Brown copy the conjugate pair of inner leaves was simply removed, and a cancel was then glued in its place without bothering to cancel the first leaf (which is now present in duplicate). Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 254). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 16, entry A2.1.a. One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry 63. Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 117 (Fall, 1986), p Cholmondeley, Thomas. ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO HENRY THOREAU, ESQ. Small envelope sent from Hodnet, England, by Thoreau s friend, Thomas Cholmondeley ( ), January 31, 1855 and postmarked at Liverpool on February 1, and in Boston on February 15. Marked Paid and addressed: Henry Thoreau, Esq./ Concord/ Massachusetts/ United States/ North America. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 26

27 Envelope addressed by Thomas Cholmondeley to Thoreau The time and place of the first postmark on this envelope leaves no doubt that the letter this envelope once contained (although dated merely Tuesday, 1855 ) was Cholmondeley s first letter to Thoreau, written on Tuesday, January 23, 1855, and although Thoreau was thought to have replied on February 7, this date is undoubtedly in error, very likely a misreading of 17. Cholmondeley visited Concord to see Emerson just two months after Walden was published, but quickly became Thoreau s friend and walking companion. When he arrived home in England he sent Thoreau the letter once held by this envelope, and at the end of 1855 he shipped Thoreau forty-four volumes of Hindu literature in translation, which was followed by a steady exchange of letters to the end of Thoreau s life. Correspondence, pp CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Duyckinck, Evert A. & George L. Duyckinck (eds.). New York: Charles Scribner, vols. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. This massive compilation of past and contemporary literature includes every major and minor figure, with biographies and extracts from writings. Its editors, Evert Augustus Duyckinck ( ) and George Long Duyckinck ( ), were leaders of the American literary scene in New York during the 1840s and 50s. A good biography of Thoreau along with lengthy extracts from Walden (1854) appeared in vol. II: pp Bibliography of American Literature: not cited under Thoreau. Scharnhorst, p. 42, entry 228. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 27

28 25. ENVELOPE ADDRESSED BY THOREAU TO DANIEL RICKETSON. [Concord, MA, May 13, 1857.] A yellow letter envelope with three cent imperforate claret Washington stamp and illegible postmark, addressed by Thoreau: Daniel Ricketson, Esq/ New Bedford/ Mass. The verso of the envelope is docketed by Ricketson: May 16, This envelope was undoubtedly used to mail Thoreau s letter to Ricketson of May 13, 1857 (now at Huntington library) in which he describes a house for sale in Concord after hearing that Ricketson might want to move there. Correspondence, pp Thoreau, Henry D. CHESUNCOOK [contained in] THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, July, First edition. Original buff printed wrappers, uncut. The first printing of the second part. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 193, entry D Thoreau, Henry D. CHESUNCOOK [contained in] THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, August, First edition. Original buff printed wrappers, uncut. The first printing of the third part. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 193, entry D Redpath, James. ECHOES OF HARPER S FERRY. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Contains Thoreau s A Plea for Capt. John Brown. Also contains two speeches by Emerson, two letters from Victor Hugo, and letter and poem by Whittier, as well as poems by Whittier, Louisa May Alcott (her third book appearance), and W. D. Howells (his second book appearance). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 28

29 Bibliography of American Literature, entries 143 (vol. 1, p. 27) (Alcott), 5233 (vol. 3, p. 29) (Emerson), 9536-note (vol. 4, p. 384) (Howells), (vol. 8, p. 254) (Thoreau), & (vol. 9, p. 137) (Whittier). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 173, entry C2. Howes, U.S.iana ( ), p. 481, entry R119. Myerson, p. 609, entry D Redpath, James. THE PUBLIC LIFE OF CAPT. JOHN BROWN. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, First edition. Original tan cloth, gilt. Mild oxidizing of gilt. Biography of Brown, dedicated to Thoreau, Emerson, and Wendell Phillips, with quotes about Brown by each. With a May 1860 ownership inscription. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. 30. Concord, MA. REPORTS OF THE SELECTMEN, AND OTHER OFFICERS, OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD. Concord: Printed by Benjamin Tolman, First edition. Original white printed wrappers. On page 16, Bronson Alcott writes in his school report of the need for a Concord Book for the Concord school children which would include works by Thoreau among others. On page 26, he writes of the need for an Atlas of Concord and suggests that Thoreau ( a sort of resident Surveyor-General of the town farms, fanners, and animals, and everything else it contains ) put his ten senses to work on compiling the work. This report also includes the Concord School Committee s Report, where, on pages [69 70] appears a song by Louisa May Alcott, her fourth book appearance. The Reports for the following year states that 470 copies of 1861 report were printed. Bibliography of American Literature: entries 106 (vol. 1, p. 20) (Bronson Alcott) & 144 (vol. 1, p. 27) (L. M. Alcott). 31. Massachusetts Board of Agriculture. EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT Boston: William White, First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Contains the first printing between cloth covers of Thoreau s Succession of Forest Trees, later collected in Excursions. This address first appeared in the report of the Middlesex The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 29

30 Agricultural Society the year before (in wrappers). In this volume, it is printed on pages of Abstracts of Returns of the Agricultural Societies of Massachusetts, edited by Charles Flint, which is bound, as always, after the text of the main title. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 254) (Middlesex) & vol. 8, p. 281, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, pp , entries C3.a (Middlesex) and C3.b. 32. Concord, MA. REPORTS OF THE SELECTMEN, AND OTHER OFFICERS, OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD. Concord, MA: Printed by Benjamin Tolman, First edition. Original green printed wrappers. Rear wrapper lacking, later gift inscription to Concord Free Public Library. On page 11 is a record of payment to Thoreau for inspecting a stone bridge for $3, his last work for the town. Also includes two payments to Tolman for printing 1,450 copies of the previous year s report, the library committee report signed in type by Emerson and others, and payment to Bronson Alcott as superintendent of schools. 33. Thoreau, Henry D. WALKING [contained in] THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, June First edition. Original buff printed wrappers, uncut. The first printing of this important essay, revised by Thoreau at the end of his life and published the month following his death. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 193, entry D Thoreau, Henry D. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition, second issue. Original green Z cloth, gilt, in the shorter size. One pencil correction in text (p. 139) by Thoreau. The sheets of the 1849 printing with a cancel title-page; one of 595 copies purchased from Thoreau s estate and re-issued. Thoreau was sent 706 unsold copies of the 1849 edition; 595 were left at the time of his death (including 145 bound copies). Ticknor & Fields cancelled the title page of the copies in sheets and re-issued them. The 145 bound copies were sold in their original state. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 30

31 Bibliography of American Literature, entry binding E (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 253); this color not recorded. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 5, entry A1.1.a 2; this color not recorded. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 43 (1949), pp Thoreau, Henry D. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition, second issue. Original green P cloth, gilt, in the taller size. Unlike other copies, this copy was not trimmed down before binding in Borst notes the blind-stamping pattern of this binding (across at center of covers rather than the T & F monogram), but does not mention copies that were left untrimmed. Bibliography of American Literature, entry binding D (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 253). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 5, entry A1.1.a 2. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 43 (1949), pp Thoreau, Henry David. AUTUMNAL TINTS [contained in] THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, October First printing. Original buff printed wrappers, uncut. Thoreau s essay is the lead article. Thoreau revised this and two other essays, sending them, shortly before his death in May, to the magazine s editor, James T. Fields ( ). In June the first essay appeared, and the third appeared in November. This essay on the changing color of leaves was published at the height of the leaf season in New England. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 195, entry D Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, Second edition. Original brown cloth, gilt, with August 1862 ads at end. The edition was only 280 copies. At Thoreau s request the subtitle was dropped from the title in this edition. Bibliography of American Literature, entry note (vol. 8, p. 254). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 18, entry A2.1.b. One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry 63. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 31

32 38. Thoreau, Henry D. WILD APPLES [contained in] THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, November First printing. Original buff printed wrappers, uncut. Thoreau s history of apples is the lead article. The essay is really a history of man within and without Nature, as traced through his history of cultivating orchards. Thoreau revised this and two other essays and sent them to the magazine s editor, James T. Fields, shortly before his death in May. In June the first essay appeared, and the second appeared in October. This essay on apples was published just as apples were coming into season in New England. This essay was collected in The Maine Woods a couple of years later. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 195, entry D Concord, MA. REPORTS OF THE SELECTMEN, AND OTHER OFFICERS, OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD. Concord: Printed by Benjamin Tolman, First edition. Original buff printed wrappers. On pages 55 56, Thoreau is listed among the 25 Concord residents who died in He was described as a natural historian and died at 44 y. 9 m. 24 d. Thoreau was one of five to die of consumption (the most common cause of death in Concord that year), and one of only two between the ages of 40 and 50 to die (6 were over age 70 and 9 were under age 5). According to the 1864 Reports of the Selectmen 450 copies were printed of this report for Thoreau, Henry D. EXCURSIONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. Original blue-green Z cloth. Biographical sketch by Emerson. The first book to include Thoreau s portrait. One of 1,558 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 5236 (vol. 3, p. 30) & (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 39, entry A3.1.a (not noting this cloth and color combination). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 32

33 41. Thoreau, Henry D. EXCURSIONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. Original green Z cloth, gilt. Biographical sketch by Emerson. The first book to include Thoreau s portrait (see page 8 above). One of 1,558 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 5236 (vol. 3, p. 30) & (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 39, entry A3.1.a (binding 3). 42. Fields, James T., ed. HOUSEHOLD FRIENDS FOR EVERY SEASON. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. Original full brown morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, With December 25, 1863 ownership inscription. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 3773 (vol. 2, p. 266) (primary entry) & vol. 8, p. 281, col. 1 (Thoreau). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. 43. AUTOGRAPH LEAVES OF OUR COUNTRY S AUTHORS. Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, First edition, with unrecorded slip inserted regarding the text of the Gettysburg Address. Original brown cloth, gilt. Facsimiles of manuscripts of Thoreau, Lincoln, Melville, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Dana, Emerson, Stowe, Fuller, Simms, Key, Poe, Audubon, Cooper, Irving, Howe, Bryant, et al. Includes facsimiles of the Gettysburg Address, Home Sweet Home, and the Star-Spangled Banner. Besides the Gettysburg Address, several of the other facsimiles are textually significant; the Melville, for example is the first book printing of any Melville poem outside of those published within his own works. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 2418 (vol. 2, p. 18), (vol. 6, p. 166), & (vol. 8, p. 255). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 174, entry C4. Carrie Estelle Doheny copy. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 33

34 44. Thoreau, Henry D. LOOMING OF THE SUN [contained in] THE BOATSWAIN S WHISTLE. Boston: Published at the National Sailors Fair, November 18, First edition. Original self-wrappers. Some chips and tears; published on poor quality paper and rarely seen in unbound form. Number 9 (of 10 issued) which contains the first printing of Thoreau s Looming of the Sun. The other issues of this occasional newspaper contained contributions by Emerson, Channing, Dana, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, etc. One other issue of this paper was once thought to have a poem by Thoreau (signed simply H. T. ) but this was disproven in 1945 (cf. Borst). Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 255). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 197, entry D73. Detail from The Boatswain s Whistle, November 18, 1864, p. 70 The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 34

35 45. Thoreau, Henry D. THE HIGHLAND LIGHT [contained in] THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. December First edition. Original buff printed wrappers, uncut. The first printing of this portion of Cape Cod. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 197, entry D Thoreau, Henry D. THE MAINE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition, first printing with books in ad list priced. April 1864 catalog at rear. Original blue-grey Z cloth, gilt. Later bookplate of Paul Steinbrecher. One of 1,650 copies printed. From the library of Calvin H. Greene ( ) with his bookplate annotated in his hand stating it was bought in Boston in Greene was a reader who wrote Thoreau a fan letter, began a correspondence with him that provoked some of Thoreau s most revealing letters, and visited Concord just months after his death, staying with Thoreau s family while he met all of the local literary figures and Thoreau s friends. In the fall of 1863 he returned and visited Walden Pond with Ellery Channing in an attempt to locate the site of Thoreau s house. A full account of their relationship is the focus of Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1899) (no. 159 below). Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3068 (vol. 2, p. 130) & (vol. 8, p. 255). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 45, entries A4.1.a (this cloth and color combination not noted). 47. Thoreau, Henry D. THE MAINE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition, first printing with books in ad list priced. April 1864 catalog at rear. Original green TR cloth, gilt. Inscribed by James T. Fields on end paper From J. T. F. and signed by Elizabeth Weir on end paper, with 1868 presentation inscription from Weir to one E. T. B. Ellis on first fly leaf. Elizabeth Jordan Weir was the governess for the Emerson children and a close friend of Sophia Thoreau. One of 1,650 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3068 (vol. 2, p. 130) & (vol. 8, p. 255). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 45, entry A4.1.a (this cloth and color combination not noted). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 35

36 48. Thoreau, Henry D. CAPE COD. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. No ads, with Excursions in spine subtitling. Original purple Z cloth, gilt, with no catalog at rear. One of 2,040 copies printed, of which 1,750 were issued in America. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3070 (vol. 2, pp ) & entry binding B (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 255). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 51, entry A5.1.a (this cloth and color combination noted, but not this binding). 49. Thoreau, Henry D. CAPE COD. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. With December ads, Walden in spine subtitling, and December 1864 catalog at rear. Original green Z cloth, gilt. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3070 (vol. 2, pp ) & binding A (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 255). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 51, entry A5.1.a (binding 1). 50. Thoreau, Henry D. CAPE COD. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. Unrecorded variant binding with December 1864 ads, with Excursions in spine subtitling, and James R. Osgood at foot of spine. Original dark slate C cloth, gilt. One of 2,040 copies printed, of which 1,750 were issued in America. Neither Borst nor Bibliography of American Literature record this binding which closely resembles the Osgood binding for Letters to Various Persons, which they both note. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3070 (vol. 2, pp ) & (vol. 8, p. 255). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 51, entry A5.1.a. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 36

37 51. Thoreau, Henry D. CAPE COD. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. With December ads, Walden in spine subtitling, and December 1864 catalog at rear. Original purple BD cloth, gilt. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3070 (vol. 2, pp ) & binding A (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 255). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 51, entry A5.1.a (binding 1) (this cloth and color combination not noted). 52. Thoreau, Henry D. LETTERS TO VARIOUS PERSONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. With Walden in spine subtitling. Original blue-black C cloth, gilt. Inscribed by publisher James R. Osgood to Kate Field in 1869, with later (May 19, 1906) inscription from Lilian Whiting (Field s biographer) on the tenth anniversary of Kate Field s death. Edited by Emerson. One of 2,130 copies printed. Field ( ) was a lecturer, reformer, journalist, and author of the first book on the telephone. Her friends included Trollope, Dickens, George Eliot, the Brownings, and most of the major American authors of the day. She was a lesbian and several annotations in this copy refer to Thoreau s passages on contemporary reactions to Walt Whitman s poetry. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 5246 (vol. 3, p. 31) & binding B (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 59, entry A6.1.a (this cloth and color combination not noted). 53. Thoreau, Henry D. LETTERS TO VARIOUS PERSONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. With Excursions in spine subtitling. Original purple-black HC cloth, gilt. From the library of E. R. Hoar, with his ink signature. Edited by Emerson. One of 2,130 copies printed. Hoar was attorney general under Grant, and a friend of Thoreau. Hoar brought Thoreau flowers on the morning of his death. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 5246 (vol. 3, p. 31) & binding A (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 59, entry A6.1.a (this cloth and color combination not noted). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 37

38 54. Thoreau, Henry D. LETTERS TO VARIOUS PERSONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. With Walden in spine subtitling. Original black C cloth, gilt, with the much rarer James R. Osgood imprint at foot of spine. Edited by Emerson. One of 2,130 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 5246 (vol. 3, p. 31) & (binding C) (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 59, entry A6.1.a (binding 8). 55. Thoreau, Henry D. LETTERS TO VARIOUS PERSONS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. With Excursions in spine subtitling. Original purple TR cloth, gilt. Edited by Emerson. One of 2,130 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 5246 (vol. 3, p. 31) & binding A (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 59, entry A6.1.a (binding 4; identical to the copy owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson). 56. O Connor, William D. THE GOOD GRAY POET. New York: Bunce & Huntington, First edition. Original buff printed wrappers. Housed in a half morocco slipcase. It is thought that Whitman wrote portions of this booklet himself. The text contains Thoreau s opinion of Whitman. Cf. Justin Kaplan s Walt Whitman: A Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980) for the influence this work had on Whitman s reputation, and the troubled Whitman-O Connor relationship. Very scarce. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 9, p. 98, col Thoreau, Henry D. A YANKEE IN CANADA. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. Original green TR cloth, gilt. The binding A spine imprint comes in two widths. This one measures 1 1/8 inches wide, and has a period after CO. Contains the first book printing of Civil Disobedience. One of 1,546 copies printed. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 38

39 Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3071 (vol. 2, p. 131), 5248 (vol. 3, p. 31), & binding A (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 62, entry A7.1.a (this cloth and color combination not noted). 58. Thoreau, Henry D. A YANKEE IN CANADA. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. Variant binding. Original green-black C cloth, gilt. The binding A spine imprint comes in two widths. This copy is 7/8 inches wide, with no period after CO a variant unrecorded by Bibliography of American Literature and Borst. Inscribed in ink on the flyleaf to the intelligent and beautiful woman who refused Thoreau s marriage proposal in 1840, Ellen Devereaux Sewall Osgood, by two of her ten children for her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary: Mrs. E. D. Osgood, With the love of her children, E. Osgood, Jos. A. Osgood, May 20, Ellen Osgood s pencil marks appear in the text of several of the essays. Detail of Ellen Sewall Osgood s penciled markings in her copy of A Yankee in Canada, p. 227 Ellen Sewall was the niece of Prudence Ward, a boarder with the Thoreau family. Canby and others give a good account of Sewall s role in Thoreau s life, which began when Henry and his brother John both courted her after her two week visit to Concord in 1839, and both proposed to her within four months of each other the following year. Despite her refusals to both brothers, Thoreau remained friendly after her marriage and the Concord Museum has a set of geological specimen boxes Thoreau made for her husband (cf. Wood, An Observant Eye, pp ). The fact that her children made a gift to her of one of Thoreau s books seven years after his death seems to confirm their cordial attitude toward their mother s former suitor, and it is an understatement to note that such a book made for an ironic wedding anniversary gift. When Thoreau was on his deathbed and Sewall s name was mentioned he told his sister Sophia that he had always loved her. There is a collection of Thoreau-Sewall Papers at Huntington Library. For more information on Sewall s later life, see Shawn Stewart s Transcendental Romance Meets the Ministry of Pain: The Thoreau Brothers, Ellen Sewall, and Her Father, Concord Saunterer, New Series, vol. 14, 2006, pp Contains the first book printing of Civil Disobedience. One of 1,546 copies printed. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 39

40 Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3071 (vol. 2, p. 131), 5248 (vol. 3, p. 31), & binding A (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 62, entry A7.1.a (this cloth and color combination not noted). Richardson, pp , 267, 325, Thoreau, Henry D. A YANKEE IN CANADA. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition. Original green C cloth, gilt. The binding A spine imprint comes in two widths. This one measures 1 1/8 inches wide, and has a period after CO. Contains the first book printing of Civil Disobedience. One of 1,546 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3071 (vol. 2, p. 131), 5248 (vol. 3, p. 31), & binding A (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 62, entry A7.1.a (this cloth and color combination not noted). 60. Alger, Rev. William R. THE SOLITUDES OF NATURE AND MAN; OR, THE LONELINESS OF HUMAN LIFE. Boston: Roberts Brothers, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. An interesting collection of essays on solitude, which includes a lengthy extract from Thoreau s books, rebuking his rejection of society. Alger ( , graduate of Harvard Divinity School, 1847) was, according to the Ticknor & Fields day-books (see The Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 117, p. 1), the first person to buy a copy of Walden, strolling into the Old Corner Bookstore about a week before the official publication date and buying it, perhaps even before Thoreau himself had seen a copy. He was also a friend of Bronson Alcott, and he attended Thoreau s funeral. Whatever relationship Alger may have had with Thoreau is somewhat of a mystery. While Alger was one of the New England liberals that Bronson Alcott had invited (as he did Thoreau) to join the Town and Country Club (later the Saturday Club), Thoreau was never active in either group. Thoreau briefly mentions in his journals a lecture Alger gave before the concord Lyceum (Journal: March 4, 1859), so it is a reasonable assumption that they met, but there is no direct evidence of this. Alger s book, The Poetry of the East (1856) was in Emerson s library, perhaps explaining why Thoreau is not known to have owned a copy, but it was certainly a book that would have held keen interest for him. Walt Whitman owned a copy of that work (given to him by Alger) and made a note in his copy that he had read it over and over and had carried it with him during the Civil War and read it aloud to soldiers in the hospitals. Melville owned a copy of Solitudes of Nature and marked passages pertaining to solitude and intellectual life. This work includes a rather broad selection of authors on the subject of isolation and solitude: The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 40

41 Hegel, Leibnitz, Dante, Chopin, Beethoven, Channing, Shelley, Descartes, Hobbes, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Schopenhauer, Comte, Byron, Rousseau, Boethius, Pascal, Tacitus, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, et al. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited Boswell & Crouch: not cited. 61. Thoreau, Henry D. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition to incorporate the 1,000 corrections made by Thoreau in his own copy of the first edition. First state of binding. Original green C cloth, gilt. One of 1,330 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 7, entry A1.2.a. 62. Thoreau, Henry D. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First edition to incorporate the 1,000 changes in the text made by Thoreau in his copy of the first edition. Original black FL cloth, gilt. Third state of binding with James R. Osgood imprint at foot of spine. One of 1,330 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 7, entry A1.2.a. 63. Emerson, Ellen T. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, ABOUT THE SITE OF THOREAU WALDEN HOUSE. Concord [1870]. 2 pages. Emerson s eldest daughter explains that her father is in Florida, and describes the site of Thoreau s house at Walden commenting that bad wood fires had recently burned off some of the best trees. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 41

42 64. Lowell, James R. MY STUDY WINDOWS. Boston: James R. Osgood, First edition, first printing. Original green cloth, gilt. The first printing was 2,100 copies. Contains the first book printing of Lowell s famous essay critical of Thoreau. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 42

43 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 6, pp. 43-4). Boswell & Crouch, p. 109, entry Scharnhorst, p. 146, entry Alcott, A. Bronson. CONCORD DAYS. Boston: Roberts Brothers, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Slip signed by Alcott tipped in. Contains passages from Thoreau s unpublished journals. From the library of historian Justin Winsor with his ownership stamp. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 114 (vol. 1, p. 22) & (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 174, entry C5. Boswell & Crouch, p. 7, entry 83. Scharnhorst, p. 149, entry Fields, James T. YESTERDAYS WITH AUTHORS. Boston: James R. Osgood, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Inscribed by Fields to Mrs. Schlesinger on February 22, Bibliography of American Literature, entry 5956 (vol. 3, pp ). Clark, Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 394, entry C38. Scharnhorst, p. 149, entry Channing, William Ellery. THOREAU: THE POET-NATURALIST. Boston: Roberts Brothers, First edition. Original three-quarter brown morocco, gilt. Photo of Channing tipped in. Unrecorded in this publisher s binding. One of 1,500 copies printed (according to the prospectus for the 1902 revised edition). Contains unpublished extracts from the journals. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3074 (vol. 2, p. 131) & (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 175, entry C6; Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 39, entry 478. Scharnhorst, p. 153, entry 874. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 43

44 68. Channing, William Ellery. THOREAU: THE POET-NATURALIST. Boston: Roberts Brothers, First edition. Original terra cotta cloth, gilt. One of 1,500 copies printed (according to the prospectus for the 1902 revised edition). Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3074 (vol. 2, p. 131) & (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 175, entry C6; Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 39, entry 478. Scharnhorst, p. 153, entry Higginson, Thomas W. OLDPORT DAYS. Boston: James R. Osgood, First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. A collection of essays about his hometown, with Thoreau quotes or references at pages 89, , and 267. This book also contains the first book printing of the Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze at page 175. This popular song had first been published in 1867, circulated as a broadside and as sheet music, reprinted in magazines, and even printed in a satirical pamphlet published by Princeton University students in 1869, but this was the first appearance between cloth covers. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 8282 (vol. 4, p. 152). 70. Concord, MA. ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE SELECTMEN AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD. Concord: Tolman & White, First edition. Original apricot printed wrappers. On page 42 the librarian reports a significant deposit: Miss Sophia E. Thoreau has deposited in the iron safe of the library building the unpublished manuscripts of her brother, Henry D. Thoreau. They fill three trunks or boxes. One contains a complete survey of almost every farm in town These were not a gift to the library, but simply left for safekeeping under Emerson s control. However, in 1876 she gave the surveys to the library. 71. Lewis, T. STEREOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPH OF THE OLD MANSE, CONCORD. Cambridgeport: T. Lewis, A very fine large stereo view, on flat orange card, showing the ancestral home of the Emersons, where Emerson wrote his first book (Nature), and where Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne lived after their marriage, made famous by the title Hawthorne used for his second collection of short stories (Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846). The garden that Thoreau The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 44

45 planted for the Hawthornes as a wedding gift is clearly visible in the foreground. The detail is excellent. Stereoview of the Old Manse This card was #18 in a 50 card series that included historical sites and structures, but only a dozen views of Concord, including only six views of homes connected to Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott. 72. Russell, Addison P. LIBRARY NOTES. New York: Hurd & Houghton, First edition. Original three-quarter tan morocco, raised bands, gilt. With presentation inscription from the author of title-page, dated August 5, An immensely popular book that went through ten editions in fifteen years. Quotes from Thoreau at pages 103-5, 146. Not in Boswell & Crouch, etc. 73. Thoreau, Henry D. EXCURSIONS. Boston: James R. Osgood, First edition, fifth printing. Original black FL cloth, gilt. Biographical sketch by Emerson. The first edition of this book was the first to include Thoreau s portrait, but the reprints deleted the frontispiece. Only 150 copies were printed of this edition. From the library of George Partridge Bradford, Concord school teacher, close The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 45

46 friend of Emerson, and a rowing and walking companion of Thoreau, with his pencil signature on the flyleaf. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 5236 (vol. 3, p. 30) & (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 41, entry A3.1.e. 74. Concord, MA. ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE SELECTMEN AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD. Concord: Tolman & White, First edition. Original apricot printed wrappers. On page 38 the librarian reports a significant gift: Miss Sophia Thoreau left to the library in her will, a box of plans, maps, &c., which formerly belonged to Mr. Henry D. Thoreau. In 1874 she had deposited all of Thoreau s surveys and notebooks in the iron safe at the library, not as a gift, and under Emerson s control. 75. [Japp, A. H.] THOREAU: HIS LIFE & AIMS, A STUDY. Boston: James R. Osgood, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. This copy has the Houghton, Osgood imprint at foot of spine. Written under the pseudonym H. A. Page. The Thoreau Handbook cites only the 1878 London edition, apparently unaware of this edition printed from advance sheets. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 283, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 91, entry Scharnhorst, p. 170, entry Linton, William J., ed. POETRY OF AMERICA, SELECTION FROM ONE HUNDRED AMERICAN POETS, WITH SOME SPECIMENS OF NEGRO MELODY. London: George Bell, First edition, Bohn Library issue. Original blue cloth, gilt, with Bell s November 1880 catalog of the complete Bohn Library at rear. Issued as part of Bohn s Standard Library series. The frontispiece depicts Whitman, but his signature is not one of twelve reproduced in facsimile at end of text. Includes poems by dozens of American poets (many are first printing), among them: Whitman (8), Paul Hamilton Hayne, Bryant, Emerson, William Dean Howells, Julia Ward Howe, Longfellow, Lowell, Maria Lowell (2 poems, and a rare anthology appearance), Lucy Larcum, Herman The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 46

47 Melville (2 poems, and an even rarer anthology appearance), Celia Thaxter, Poe, Whittier, Thoreau (2 poems, also a rare anthology appearance; one of them being the previously unrecorded first book appearance of Inspiration which appeared in a magazine in 1863 and was collected in Poems of Nature, 1895, cf. Borst, Bibliography, p. 195, entry D53 for the magazine appearance and Bibliography of American Literature vol. 8, p. 281, which erroneously states that it contained only reprint material). Bibliography of American Literature, 7872 (vol. 4, p. 67) & vol. 9, p. 94, col Linton, William J., ed. POETRY OF AMERICA, SELECTIONS FROM ONE HUNDRED AMERICAN POETS, WITH SOME SPECIMENS OF NEGRO MELODY. London: George Bell, First edition, regular issue. Original pale lavender gray cloth, gilt. This is the earliest form of this book, which was also issued (in slightly smaller format) as part of Bohn s Standard Library series. The frontispiece depicts Whitman, but his signature is not one of twelve reproduced in facsimile at end of text. Includes poems by dozens of American poets (many are first printings), among them: Whitman (8), Paul Hamilton Hayne, Bryant, Emerson, William Dean Howells, Julia Ward Howe, Longfellow, Lowell, Maria Lowell (2 poems, and a rare anthology appearance), Lucy Larcum, Herman Melville (2 poems, also a rare anthology appearance; one of them being the previously unrecorded first book appearance of Inspiration which appeared in a magazine in 1863 and was collected in Poems of Nature, 1895, cf. Borst, Bibliography, p. 195, entry D53 for the magazine appearance and Bibliography of American Literature vol. 8, p. 281, which erroneously states that it contained only reprint material). Bibliography of American Literature, 7872 (vol. 4, p. 67) & vol. 9, p. 94, col A MASQUE OF POETS. Boston: Roberts Brothers, First edition, regular issue. Original black cloth, stamped in red. Lightly rubbed. Francis H. Underwood s copy, heavily annotated with his caustic comments. Underwood was a founder of The Atlantic Monthly. Emily Dickinson was an avid reader of this journal and it was a now famous essay ( Letter to Young Contributors ) published in its pages in April 1862 by Thomas Wentworth Higginson that prompted Dickinson to seek his opinion of her poetry. One of 1,500 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 118 (vol. 1, p. 22), 4654 (vol. 2, p. 446), & (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 175, entry C7.a. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 47

48 Scharnhorst, p. 177, entry Aubrey Stark, An Omnibus of Poets. The Colophon, vol. 16, n.p. 79. A MASQUE OF POETS. Boston: Roberts Brothers, First edition, regular issue. Original black cloth, stamped in red. Frank Sanborn s copy with his notes. Lightly rubbed. Sanborn was a friend of Henry David Thoreau (this volume contains a poem by Thoreau also) but never met Emily Dickinson. One of 1,500 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 118 (vol. 1, p. 22), 4654 (vol. 2, p. 446), (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 175, entry C7.a. Scharnhorst, p. 177, entry Aubrey Stark, An Omnibus of Poets. The Colophon, vol. 16, n.p. 80. A MASQUE OF POETS. Boston: Robert Brothers, First edition, red line issue. Original terra cotta cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Lightly rubbed. Only 500 copies were printed in this format; 1,500 were printed in the regular format. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 118 (vol. 1, p. 22), 4654 (vol. 2, p. 446), & (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 175, entry C7.a. Scharnhorst, p. 177, entry Aubrey Stark, An Omnibus of Poets. The Colophon, vol. 16, n.p. 81. Thoreau, Henry D. MAY DAYS [contained in] THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, May First edition. Original buff printed wrappers, uncut. The first printing of this extract from the journals. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 197, entry D77. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 48

49 82. Walcott, Charles H. SEMI-CENTENNIAL PROCEEDINGS ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONCORD LYCEUM. Concord: Tolman & White, First edition. Original printed grey wrappers. Contains an address by Judge Hoar, who notes that Thoreau lectured before the Lyceum 19 times and Emerson 98 times, and who acknowledges Emerson s presence at the event. Also contains a history of the Lyceum, quoting Thoreau s 1840 notes about a Lyceum meeting (p. 17). Not in Borst, Boswell & Crouch, etc. 83. Higginson, Thomas W. SHORT STUDIES OF AMERICAN AUTHORS. New York: Dillingham, First edition, first binding. With brown coated end papers. Original green cloth, gilt. Contains the first book appearance of Thoreau s famous journal entry regarding the unsold copies of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (the first printing of those lines was in a review of A Yankee in Canada in 1866). Bibliography of American Literature, entries 8312 (vol. 4, p. 156) & (vol. 8, p. 257). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 175, entry C8. Boswell & Crouch, p. 84, entry Scharnhorst, p. 194, entry Higginson, Thomas W. SHORT STUDIES OF AMERICAN AUTHORS. New York: Dillingham, First edition, first binding. Light green large-leaf floral end papers. Original mustard cloth, gilt. With December 25, 1880 inscription. Contains the first book appearance of Thoreau s famous journal entry regarding the unsold copies of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (the first printing of those lines was in a review of A Yankee in Canada in 1866). Bibliography of American Literature, entries 8312 (vol. 4, p. 156) & (vol. 8, p. 257). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 175, entry C8. Boswell & Crouch, p. 84, entry Scharnhorst, p. 194, entry The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 49

50 85. Higginson, Thomas W. SHORT STUDIES OF AMERICAN AUTHORS. New York: Dillingham, First edition, first binding. With brown coated end papers. Original terra cotta cloth, gilt. Contains the first book appearance of Thoreau s famous journal entry regarding the unsold copies of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (the first printing of those lines was in a review of A Yankee in Canada in 1866). Bibliography of American Literature, entries 8312 (vol. 4, p. 156) & (vol. 8, p. 257). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 175, entry C8. Boswell & Crouch, p. 84, entry Scharnhorst, p. 194, entry [Burroughs, John] THE CRITIC. Vol. I, No. 6. New York: J. L. & J. B. Gilder, March 26, Quarto, self-wrapper with portrait of Thoreau on front cover, drawn by Will How from the Dunshee ambrotype (1861, with heavy beard), and very likely the first depiction of Thoreau The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 50

51 on the cover of a magazine. Burroughs article, Thoreau s Wildness is the lead article, and an article on Thoreau s poetry by F. B. Sanborn includes some previously unpublished Thoreau poems. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 51

52 87. Johnson, Rossiter, ed. LITTLE CLASSICS. NATURE. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, orange edges. Includes Thoreau s A Winter Walk and works by Hawthorne, Burroughs, Ruskin, etc. Volume 17 from the Little Classics Series, which was originally published in 1875 in a 16 volume set. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 282, col. 1. Scharnhorst, p. 193, entry Thoreau, Henry D. EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. The edition was 1,018 copies. From library of John S. Hoar, son of Judge E. R. Hoar (attorney general under Grant, and friend of Thoreau who brought him hyacinths the day of his death). Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 257). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 68, entry A8.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 15, entry Thoreau, Henry D. EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Inscribed by H. G. O. Blake to E. E. Kenyon, the mother-in-law of Van Wyck Brooks, on a tipped-in sheet: E. E. Kenyon, From H. G. O. Blake, Feb 24th, The edition was 1,018 copies. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 257). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 68, entry A8.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 15, entry Thoreau, Henry D. A YANKEE IN CANADA. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Reprint from first edition plates. Original terra cotta cloth, gilt. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 52

53 From the library of George Partridge Bradford, Concord school teacher, close friend of Emerson, and a rowing and walking companion of Thoreau, with his ink signature and date on the second flyleaf. By the mid-1870s Houghton, Mifflin was reprinting this title only 150 copies at a time. Borst states that Houghton, Mifflin changed the binding style in 1881 to match the volumes edited by H. G. O. Blake, but this binding matches the style of the original 1866 binding. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 5248 (vol. 3, p. 31) & (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 62, entry A7; p. 64-note. 91. Alcott, A. Bronson. THE CONCORD SUMMER SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY. Concord, July Sheet folded to 4 pages. Advertises in great detail the courses and content of Alcott s school to be held that summer in his small school house next to Orchard House. Among the activities are reading from Thoreau s manuscripts by Frank Sanborn or H. G. O. Blake. Detail from The Concord Summer School of Philosophy advertisement The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 53

54 92. Sanborn, Franklin B. HENRY D. THOREAU. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. The first book-length biography of Thoreau, and written by one of his closest friends, including an unpublished letter, unpublished extracts from his journals, and a previously unpublished poem. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 126 (vol. 1, p. 23) & (vol. 8, p. 257). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 176, entry C9. Boswell & Crouch, 147, entry Scharnhorst, pp , entry Stevenson, Robert L. FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS. London: Chatto & Windus, First edition, first issue. Original pale tan pictorial cloth, gilt. A few touches of rubbing at tips, with February 1882 inserted ads. Contains his famous essays on Whitman and Thoreau (pp ). McKay, A. Stevenson Library, the Edwin J. Beinecke Collection, p Boswell & Crouch, pp , entry Prideaux, entry 7 (p. 15). 94. ESSAYS FROM THE CRITIC. Boston: James R. Osgood, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Contains essay on Thoreau (and two pieces by Whitman). The edition was 1,140 copies. Giantvalley suggests Jeannette Gilder as the editor. Bibliography of American Literatures, entries 9461 (vol. 4, p. 370), (vol. 8, p. 257), & (vol. 9, p. 44). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 176, entry C10. Giantvalley, entry , p. 57. Scharnhorst, p. 215, entry The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 54

55 95. Bridgman, Raymond, ed. CONCORD LECTURES ON PHILOSOPHY Cambridge: Moses King, Harvard Square [1883]. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. This scarce volume includes the entire 24 day series of meeting and readings for 1882, including the fifteenth day (pp ) when Sanborn read from Thoreau s manuscripts (the first part of The Service and some letters). Bibliography of American Literature, entries 129 (vol. 1, p. 24) (Bronson Alcott) & (vol. 8, p. 257 ) (Thoreau). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 176, entry C Thoreau, Henry D. SUMMER. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. One of 1,260 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 257). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 71, entry A9.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 15, entry Thoreau, Henry D. SUMMER. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. The editor s own copy, signed in ink on title-page by H. G. O. Blake, with over forty pencil annotations in text, and partial list of references on rear endpaper listing corrections and cross-references to Winter (1888). Spine ends worn, but a good solid copy. One of 1,260 copies printed. Reference: Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 257). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 71, entry A9.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 15, entry Thoreau, Henry D. SUMMER. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Inscribed on the front blank by H. G. O. Blake to E. E. Kenyon, Van Wyck Brooks mother-in-law: E. E. Kenyon, with the affectionate regards of H. G. O. Blake, Worcester, June 5, One of 1,260 copies printed. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 55

56 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 257). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 71, entry A9.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 15, entry Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN. Edinburgh: David Douglas, First English edition. Original green cloth, paper label, top edge uncut. This was the twenty-second American printing prepared for English sale, and quite rare. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 22, entry A2.1.v. One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry Shepherd, William [Walsh, William Shepard]. ENCHIRIDION OF CRITICISM. Philadelphia: Lippincott, First edition. Original three-quarter cloth, morocco label, gilt. Contains an appreciative essay on Thoreau by Edwin Percy Whipple. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Scharnhorst: not cited Whitcomb, H. L. CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS. PORTRAITS, HOMES, AND HISTORICAL LANDMARKS. Concord: H. L. Whitcomb [ca. 1885]. Original dark mauve cloth, gilt. Viewbook, illustrated with twelve excellent photographic views, separated by tissue paper, and portraits of Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Bronson Alcott, Emerson, and Hawthorne. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 56

57 Emerson s study from Concord, Massachusetts. Portraits, Homes, and Historical Landmarks 102. Sanborn, Kate. VANITY AND INSANITY OF GENIUS. New York: George J. Coombes First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, uncut. Psychological study of the ego and self-awareness of many nineteenth century authors: Thoreau, Whitman, Dickens, Hawthorne, etc. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Giantvalley, entry , p Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN. London: Walter Scott, First English edition. Original blue cloth, label. There was an English issue of an American printing in 1884, but this was the first edition printed in England. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 271). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 24, entry A2.2.a. One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry 63. Turner, entry 139a, p Cabot, James E. A MEMOIR OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, vols. First edition, large paper edition. Original cream boards, labels, uncut and unopened. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 57

58 Number 21 of 500 numbered copies. From the library of Thomas Bailey Aldrich with his bookplate, and tipped in in on the front end paper an ALS to him from Cabot thanking him for praise of the book in advance of publication. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 3, pp Myerson, pp , entry D138. Scharnhorst, p. 259, entry Cabot, James E. A MEMOIR OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, vols. First trade edition. Original blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Inscribed by Emerson s daughter, Edith Emerson Forbes, September 20, 1887, to LeBaron Russell, who is mentioned in the book. With later ownership inscription of lady to whom Russell gave this set, with ALS from Russell regarding this set and his memories of Emerson. Russell knew Emerson form the early 1830s, and in the 1870s after Emerson s home partly burned, he organized the fund that was collected to repair the house. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 3, pp Myerson, pp , entry D138. Scharnhorst, p. 259, entry Thoreau, Henry D. SUCCESSION OF FOREST TREES, WILD APPLES, AND SOUNDS. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin The Riverside Press [1887]. First edition of this collection. Original buff printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Issued in May 1887 as number 27 in the Riverside Literature Series. All reprint material, of course, from Walden and Excursions. Also includes Emerson s biographical sketch reprinted from Excursions. The edition was 1,556 copies; Borst says this was issued in both cloth and wrappers, but Mac Donnell has not seen a cloth copy. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 271). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 42, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, Twenty-fourth edition. Original green cloth, top edge gilt, gilt. Worn but sound copy marked with all the changes Thoreau made in his copy of the first edition. Ownership inscription of C. H. Cooley, March 26, 1887 and note on fly: The The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 58

59 annotations are from some made by Thoreau in a copy give to his sister. I have them from Dr. [Samuel Arthur] Jones, June, Foot of title-page and page 27 clipped as if to remove library markings, but no other signs of library markings present. This copy contains the same changes (on 23 pages) as those in Thoreau s copy, not at Middlebury College. Photocopy listing the changes from the Winter 1953 (no. 42) Thoreau Society Bulletin laid in. Allen, pp Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 18. Oeschlaeger & Hendrick, entry 389, pp Williams, Henry. MEMORIALS OF THE CLASS OF 1837 OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Boston: George H. Ellis, First edition, privately printed in a small edition. Original grey cloth, gilt. Contains a six page tribute to Thoreau and a portion of a previously unpublished letter. Inscribed by the editor (with numerous textual corrections in his hand) to Charles W. Storey. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 177, entry C McLoughlin Brothers. THE GAME OF PICTORIAL AUTHORS. New York: McLoughlin Brothers, First edition. Original maroon paper-covered wooden two-piece box, gilt. The Game of Pictorial Authors box The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 59

60 Complete game with 72 cards (featuring 18 authors; 4 cards each). The game began as Game of Authors, published by G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith of Salem as early as This version is the first one that includes Thoreau. Five of the eighteen authors featured are women, an unusually high percentage: Thaxter, Jewett, Phelps, Whitney, and Stowe. It also features Thoreau s fellow Concordians, Hawthorne and Emerson. Kaplan, Play Your Cards!, pp. 5-7 and Thoreau, Henry D. WINTER. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. The edition was 1,550 copies. Bookplate of Whitelaw Reid ( ), editor of the New York Tribune, author, ambassador to France, and vice-presidential nominee. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 258). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 75, entry A10.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 15, entry Thoreau, Henry D. WINTER. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. The edition was 1,550 copies. Inscribed on the title-page by H. G. O. Blake to E. E. Kenyon, mother-in-law of Van Wyck Brooks: E. E. Kenyon, From H. G. O. Blake, Nov. 18, Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 258). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 75, entry A10.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 15, entry Emerson, Edward W. EMERSON IN CONCORD. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Inscribed by the author s sister, Emerson s daughter, Ellen Tucker Emerson. Contains several references to Thoreau. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 3, p. 69, col. 1. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 60

61 Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Myerson, p. 637, entry D140-note 1. Scharnhorst, p. 267, entry Kirkland, E. V. IMPROVED GAME OF AUTHORS. Randolph, New York: Publishing Co. Printers, Deck of 100 cards (25 books of four), without portraits, but filled with factual data; invented by a teacher for educational purposes. Thoreau (book 2) and Alcott (book 4) are included. The instruction sheet is supplied in facsimile. Thoreau card from the Improved Game of Authors 114. Salt, Henry S. THE LIFE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. London: Richard Bentley, First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. This biography marked the beginning of a reassessment of Thoreau s reputation. It was the reading of this biography that led Gandhi to put Thoreau s philosophy into practice. On May 7, 1891 Salt wrote to Samuel Arthur Jones that the edition was only 750 copies, and that 300 have been sold. Yet, in 1895, shortly before publication of the revised edition, he The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 61

62 commented in a letter that 400 copies were still unsold, and that Bentley intended to remainder them at a reduced price, perhaps selling some of them with a cancelled title-page through MacMillan in New York (no copies seen thus, although the 1896 revised edition was issued in the United States). Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 283, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 177, entry C13 and p. 218 (also giving 750 as the print run). Boswell & Crouch, p. 146, entry Scharnhorst, p. 278, entry Thoreau, Henry D. ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM PAPERS. London: Swan Sonnenschein, First separate edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Edited by Henry S. Salt. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 65, entry A7.2.a THOREAU S THOUGHTS, SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THOREAU. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, first state. Original red cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. The title-page is dated 1890 and the front cover reads Selections From the Journals The entire printing was 769 copies. The last and rarest of the five Thoreau volumes edited by H. G. O. Blake. Contains Jones bibliography. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 20189, (vol. 8, p. 271). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 207, entry E1. Scharnhorst, p. 276, entry Thoreau, Henry D. ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS. London: Walter Scott [1891]. First edition thus, American issue. Original green cloth, gilt, uncut, dust jacket. Collection of the major essays, letters, and poems, edited by Will H. Dircks. Rare. Several years after publication, Henry Salt noted that only about 300 copies had been sold (the same sales figures as for his 1890 biography of Thoreau). Although this copy is priced three shillings and six pence on the dust jacket, it was exported as evidenced by the rubber-stamp The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 62

63 on verso of title-page: Made and Printed in Great Britain. Although the sheets were printed in 1891 without such a notice, all books imported into the United States after 1891 had to be so marked with the country of origin. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (this binding not recorded) (vol. 8, p. 272). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 207, entry E2 (this binding not recorded). Turner, entry 431c, p. 258 (dates this issue as , and apparently unaware of the publication history cited above) Thoreau, Henry D. ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS. London: Walter Scott [1891]. First edition thus, first printing. English issue. Original blue decorated cloth, gilt, edges trimmed (a variant binding). From the library of historian/author Henry Commager with his pencil signature and date (1947). Collection of the major essays, letters, and poems, edited by Will H. Dircks. Rare. Several years after publication, Henry Salt noted that only about 300 copies had been sold (the same sales figures as for his 1890 biography of Thoreau). This copy has no export rubber-stamp on verso of title-page. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 272). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 207, entry E2. Turner, entry 431a, p Thoreau, Henry D. ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS. London: Walter Scott [1891]. First edition thus, first printing. English issue. Original blue cloth, paper label, uncut. From the library of W. H. Hudson, author of Green Mansions, with his ink signature and pencil marks in text of Walking and the letters. Collection of the major essays, letters, and poems, edited by Will H. Dircks. Rare. Several years after publication, Henry Salt noted that only about 300 copies had been sold (the same sales figures as for his 1890 biography of Thoreau). This copy has no export rubber-stamp on verso of title-page, and is in the usual binding. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 272). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 207, entry E2. Turner, entry 431a, p The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 63

64 120. Thoreau, Henry D. ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS. London: Walter Scott [1891]. First edition thus, first printing. English issue. Original blue cloth, paper label, uncut. Nicks to label. Collection of the major essays, letters, and poems, edited by Will H. Dircks. Rare. Several years after publication, Henry Salt noted that only about 300 copies had been sold (the same sales figures as for his 1890 biography of Thoreau). This copy has no export rubber-stamp on verso of title-page, and is in the usual binding. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 272). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 207, entry E2. Turner, entry 431a, p THOREAU S THOUGHTS, SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THOREAU. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, second state. Original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. The title-page is dated 1891 and the front cover reads correctly Selections from the Writings The entire printing was 769 copies, but it is unknown how many copies were postdated (the book was published in December 1890). Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 271). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 207, entry E Curtis, George W. FROM THE EASY CHAIR. New York: Harper, First edition, first state. Original white cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Contains a chapter on an encounter with Thoreau at Emerson s home where the conversation was about Indians. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 4391 (vol. 2, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Scharnhorst, p. 295, entry The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 64

65 123. Sidney, Margaret. OLD CONCORD, HER HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS. Boston: Lothrop [1892]. Revised and enlarged edition. Original green pictorial cloth, dust jacket. Inscribed in 1936 by the author s daughter, Margaret Lothrop, at the Wayside, Concord. The first edition was published in Excellent photographs of all the major homes (interior and exterior) and scenes in Concord Thoreau, Henry D. AUTUMN. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. The edition was 1,020 copies (not 500 as stated by Borst). Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 258). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 79, entry A11.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 15, entry Thoreau, Henry D. AUTUMN. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Inscribed on the title-page by H. G. O. Blake to E. E. Kenyon, mother-in-law of Van Wyck Brooks: E. E. Kenyon, from H. G. O. Blake, Sept. 17, The edition was 1,020 copies (not 500 as stated by Borst). Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 258). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 79, entry A11.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 15, entry Hosmer, Alfred W. CABINET PHOTOGRAPH COLLAGE OF CONCORD VIEWS. Concord: Alfred W. Hosmer [ ]. A very fine collage of Hosmer s Concord series (4 x 6 inches), showing the sixteen views he offered for sale at one point (the series eventually numbered about seventy-five photos), with a printed list pasted on verso of mount. Alfred (Fred) Hosmer ( ) was a relative of Edmund Hosmer, friend of Thoreau (he was the farmer-poet who helped Thoreau build his house at Walden Pond), and was also a friend of Emerson, Alcott, and Hawthorne. Fred Hosmer clerked at the town s general store, which he bought in He made it his business to photograph all the points of interest around Concord. This cabinet card includes portraits of Thoreau, Hawthorne, Alcott, and Emerson. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 65

66 127. Hosmer, Alfred W. CABINET PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CONCORD RIVER. Concord: Alfred W. Hosmer [ ]. A very fine large view (5 x 7 1/2 inches) of the Concord River immortalized in Thoreau s first book. Alfred (Fred) Hosmer ( ) was a relative of Edmund Hosmer, friend of Thoreau (he was the farmer-poet who helped Thoreau build his house at Walden Pond), and was also a friend of Emerson, Alcott, and Hawthorne. Fred Hosmer clerked at the town s general store, which he bought in Hosmer cabinet photograph of the Concord River He made it his business to photograph all the points of interest around Concord; this cabinet card was a part of a series of roughly seventy-five such views. This copy has Hosmer s label on the verso of the mounting card Sanborn, Franklin B., & Harris, W. T. A. BRONSON ALCOTT, HIS LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY. Boston: Roberts Brothers, vols. First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. First printings of extracts from several Thoreau letters, and numerous references. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 66

67 Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 1, p. 26, col. 1 & entry (vol. 8, p. 258). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 177, entry C14. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Scharnhorst, pp , entry Jones, Samuel A. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOREAU. Cleveland: Rowfant Club, First edition. Original cloth-backed boards, label, uncut. Copy number 7, with the bookplate of Edwin Holden, an early member of both the Grolier and Rowfant Clubs. Limited to 90 copies, with the photographic portrait frontispiece. Correspondence between Jones and A. W. Hosmer indicates that 65 photo frontispieces were printed. Those copies were intended for the 55 members of the Rowfant Club (who could order more than one copy) and for presentation by Jones. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 283, col. 2. Boswell & Crouch, p. 94, entry Scharnhorst, p. 314, entry Thoreau, Henry D. FAMILIAR LETTERS. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. One of 1,008 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 85, entry A13.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 148, entry Scharnhorst, p. 315, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THE WRITINGS Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, vols. First trade edition, first printing. Original green cloth, gilt. The Riverside edition of Thoreau s works, and the first collected edition. The edition was 516 copies; a large paper edition of 150 copies (actually 158) was also printed; the volumes in that edition were printed 2 4 weeks later than the volumes of the trade edition. The tenth volume is Miscellanies (Borst, Bibliography, entry A12.1.a; Bibliography of American Literature, entry 21032) and first prints five pieces, and first collects seven more. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 67

68 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 163, entry B Hosmer, Alfred W. CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF HENRY D. THOREAU Concord, MA: Alfred W. Hosmer, First edition. Original plain grey wrappers, tied with silk cord as issued. With albumen print of the 1856 Maxham portrait of Thoreau bound in, with Hosmer s stamp on verso. Maxham made three portraits of Thoreau, one of which belonged to H. G. O. Blake. This portrait is a mirror image of the Blake copy. It is slightly larger and with less detail than a separate image of the Blake copy that was probably also reproduced and sold by Hosmer. Ownership inscription of Percy W. Brown ( ), whose mother was Florence Whiting Brown, and whose maternal grandmother was a Hosmer. Percy Brown served as a President of the Concord Historical Society and lived in the John Milton Cheney home at 76 Main Street, across the street from Thoreau s last home. Alfred W. Hosmer was a Concord dry goods store owner who collected Thoreau materials now preserved at the Concord Free Public Library. Laid in is a fragment of a signed note from George W. Hosmer: With nothing but desire that the truth may be known, and justice done to all, I am very truly, G. W. Hosmer. Bibliography of American Authors: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) locates eleven copies Maxham, Benjamin D. PHOTOGRAPH OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. [Concord: Alfred S. Hosmer, ca ] Albumen print, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, mounted on plate paper. Thoreau visited Maxham s Worcester studio in 1856 and had three images made, giving one to H. G. O. Blake, one to Theophilus Brown, and mailing one to Calvin Greene. This is a reverse image of the Blake-E. Harlow Russell-W. T. H. Howe-Berg Collection (New York Public Library) image. The original Brown image is now in the Thoreau Society Archives at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, and the original Greene image is now at the National Portrait Gallery. Tintypes were made in 1861 from either the Brown or Blake originals, but this later print seems to have been reproduced by Alfred W. Hosmer, who sold it bound into a Chronology of Henry D. Thoreau (1895), and separately, as here. However, this print is smaller and has more detail than the print used in his book. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 68

69 134. Thoreau, Henry D. POEMS OF NATURE. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin [and] London: John Lane, First edition, American issue, in the American binding. Original pale green cloth, gilt, uncut. One of 750 copies printed, of which 270 were issued in America. In this copy the title-page has the 95 and Patten Wilson s initials present in the lower right corner of the border, and leaf H6 (blank) is pasted under or excised rather than appearing between the last page of text and the first page of the inserted ads. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 260). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 88, entry A14.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 146, entry Thoreau, Henry D. POEMS OF NATURE. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin [and] London: John Lane, First edition, American issue, variant issue, in the American binding. Original pale green cloth, gilt, uncut. One of 750 copies printed, of which 270 were issued in America. The cancel title-page in this copy does not have the number 95 present in the lower right hand corner of the title-page border. Borst (Bibliography) illustrates only the English title-page which has the 95 and Patten Wilson s initials present, as does the other American copy in the Mac Donnell Collection. An odd variant, considering the small number of title-pages printed for this issue. In this copy leaf H6 (blank) is present between the last page of text and the first page of the inserted ads. In my other copy it is pasted under or excised. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 260). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 88, entry A14.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 146, entry Thoreau, Henry D. POEMS OF NATURE. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head [and] Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, English issue. Original medium green smooth-grain cloth, gilt, stamped in black and gilt, edges smooth-trimmed. One of 750 copies printed, of which 270 were issued in America. In this copy the title-page has the 95 and Patten Wilson s initials present in the lower right corner of the border, and leaf H6 (blank) is present between the last page of text and the first page of the inserted ads. The binding is the Times Book Club binding, noted by Borst. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 69

70 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 260) (notes this binding as not seen). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 88, entry A14.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 146, entry Thoreau, Henry D. POEMS OF NATURE. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head [and] Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, English issue, in the English binding. Original pale green cloth, gilt, uncut. One of 750 copies printed, of which 270 were issued in America. In this copy the title-page has the 95 and Patten Wilson s initials present in the lower right corner of the border, and leaf H6 (blank) is excised. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 260). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 88, entry A14.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 146, entry Thoreau, Henry D. POEMS OF NATURE. London: John Lane [and] Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, English issue, an odd variant in the American binding. Original pale green cloth, gilt, uncut. The binding of this copy has the American imprint at foot ( Boston & The Bodley Head ) instead of the English imprint. Title-page designed by Patten Wilson, with his initials 95 and date. One of 750 copies printed, of which 270 were issued in America. In this copy leaf H6 (blank) is present between the end of text and the inserted ads; this copy is mostly unopened, and gathering H is unopened. Scarce. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 260). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 88, entry A14.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 146, entry SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. London: MacMillan, First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Edited by Henry S. Salt. From the library of Odell Shepherd with his signature ( Oxford, 1928 ) and textual annotations. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 70

71 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 272) (with notation: cloth? ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 207, entry E Wolfe, Theodore F. LITERARY SHRINES, SOME HAUNTS OF FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS. Philadelphia: Lippincott, First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, uncut. Contains material on Thoreau, Walden, Concord, and the Transcendentalists. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Scharnhorst, p. 327, entry Horder, Garrett, ed. THE TREASURY OF AMERICAN SACRED SONG. London & New York: Oxford University Press, First edition. Original quarter white parchment, maroon cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. This is the deluxe binding; full maroon cloth, gilt, top edge plain, was the regular binding. Included in this anthology are thirteen poems by Emily Dickinson, making this a major early anthology appearance, which is amazingly not cited in Bibliography of American Literature or Myerson. It also includes six poems by Walt Whitman (BAL, vol. 9, p. 96, col. 1), as well as poems by Poe, Alcott, Thoreau (BAL, vol. 8, p. 282, col. 1), Emerson, Longfellow (BAL, vol. 5, p. 615, col. 2), Whittier (BAL, vol. 9, p. 272, col. 1), Holmes, Burroughs, Dunbar, Larcum (BAL, vol. 5, p. 323, vol. 1), Riley, Coolbrith, Cranch, Fields, Hayne, Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Lanier, Maria Lowell, Jones Very, Sill, Thaxter, etc. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 6, p. 378) (Moulton, primary entry) Salt, Henry S. THE LIFE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. London: Walter Scott, Revised edition, regular format. Original blue cloth, gilt, uncut. With important correction and additions, and as rare as the first edition. Issued in two formats from the same plates; this copy is seven inches tall, uncut, printed on wove paper, with 22 pages of ads inserted at end, and spine stamped as part of the Great Writers series. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 71

72 Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, pp Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited (only the 1890 edition is noted). Boswell & Crouch, p. 10, entry 114 & p. 146, entry Scharnhorst, pp , entry Turner, entry 650a, pp Salt, Henry S. THE LIFE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. London: Walter Scott, Revised edition, large paper format, American issue. Original blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, uncut. With important corrections and additions, and as rare as the first edition. Issued in two formats from the same plates; this copy is 8 1/4 inches tall, printed on laid paper, with 6 pages of ads inserted at end. The foot of the spine is stamped SCRIBNERS in gilt, indicating American publication. Presentation copy from Thoreauvian Alfred Hosmer with card tipped in, reading: Alfred W. Hosmer, Merry Xmas. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, pp Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited (only the 1890 edition is noted). Boswell & Crouch, p. 10, entry 114 & p. 146, entry Scharnhorst, pp , entry Not in Turner, who notes only the shorter format in Walter Scott s Great Writers series Salt, Henry S. THE LIFE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. London: Walter Scott, Revised edition, large paper format, English issue. Original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, smooth trimmed. With important corrections and additions, and as rare as the first edition. Issued in two formats from the same plates; this copy is 8 inches tall, printed on laid paper, with 6 pages of ads inserted at end. The foot of the spine is stamped WALTER SCOTT in gilt, indicating English publication (some copies are stamped SCRIBNER [see no. 147]). Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, pp Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited (only the 1890 edition is noted). Boswell & Crouch, p. 10, entry 114 & p. 146, entry Scharnhorst, pp , entry Not in Turner, who notes only the shorter format in Walter Scott s Great Writers series. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 72

73 145. Thoreau, Henry D. CAPE COD. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, vols. First edition thus. Original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. With delicately printed watercolor illustrations by Amelia M. Watson. Binding designed by Sarah Whitman, who also designed the very similar binding for the illustrated Walden the next year (see no. 151). The edition was 5,134 copies, and the book was published the first week of November This copy carries a Christmas 1896 ownership inscription. Allen & Gullans, Decorated Cloth in America, p Bennett, A Practical Guide to Nineteenth Century Color-Plate Books, p Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 272). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 56, entry A Lathrop, Rose H. MEMORIES OF HAWTHORNE. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Includes numerous references to Thoreau. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Clark, Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 398, entry C Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, vols. First illustrated edition. Original cloth, gilt, dust jackets, in original box with label designating this as the Holiday Edition. Extremely fine set, perhaps the only one known with jackets in perfect shape and the box intact. The binding, jacket, and box design were by Sarah Whitman, who had designed the very similar binding for Cape Cod the previous year (see no. 149). The edition was 2,500 copies. The books have expanded slightly or the box has shrunk and the dust jackets are now sleeved, so this set no longer safely fits inside its original box. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 272). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 26, entry A2.3.e. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 73

74 One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry 63. Scharnhorst, pp , entry Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, vols. First illustrated edition. Original cloth, gilt. Tiny slip signed by Higginson tipped in. The print run for this 1897 edition was 2,500 copies. From the library of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, with is book label in each volume and a few pencil notes. Higginson was a friend of Thoreau, hosted Thoreau during some of his lectures, and bought two copies of Walden in When Thoreau read passages from his Walden manuscript to Alcott, Alcott wrote Higginson to announce the event. The copy of the first edition of Walden inscribed by Thoreau to Higginson was sold at Christie s for $26,450 on October 27, 1995 (Engelhard sale, lot 142) and again by Christie s for $216,000 on June 29, 2005 (Drapkin sale, lot 376). Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 272). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 26, entry A2.3.e. One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry 63. Scharnhorst, pp , entry Griswold, Hattie T. PERSONAL SKETCHES OF RECENT AUTHORS. Chicago: McClurg, First edition. Original grey cloth, gilt. A collection of biographical sketches, including, besides Thoreau, Howells, Ruskin, E. B. Browning, Tennyson, Stowe, Stevenson, Alcott, Kipling, Darwin, et al. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Griswold, Rufus W. PASSAGES FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER PAPERS. Cambridge: W. M Griswold, First edition. Original cream linen, stamped in black. Privately printed collection of letters, including a letter by Thoreau, and several references to him. Inscribed by Griswold s daughter to Parke Godwin. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 6712 (vol. 3, p. 301). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 178, entry C16. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 74

75 Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Scharnhorst, p. 358, entry Higginson, Thomas W. CHEERFUL YESTERDAYS. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, first printing on laid paper. Original red cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Numerous Thoreau references. With August, 1898 ownership inscription. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 8422 (vol. 4, pp ). Not is Boswell & Crouch, Borst, etc Hoar, George. A BOY SIXTY YEARS AGO. Boston: Perry Mason [1898]. First edition. Original printed wrappers. Memoirs by a boyhood friend of Thoreau with his discussion of Thoreau (pp. 33-6) and other Concordians. Hoar published his full-length memoirs, Autobiography of Seventy Years, in Boswell & Crouch: not cited Higginson, Thomas W. CONTEMPORARIES. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Includes references to Thoreau. Hoar family bookplate, with pencil note at end: from the library of Senator Hoar. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 8433 (vol. 4, p. 170). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Scharnhorst, p. 366, entry Howe, Julia W. REMINISCENCES, Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. In a dust jacket with a Christmas 1899 gift inscription on the front panel. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 75

76 At pages she recalls the Radical Club and Emerson s reading of his paper on Thoreau, remarking that the paper revealed Thoreau s egotism that was completely overlooked by Emerson himself SOME UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF HENRY D. AND SOPHIA E. THOREAU. Jamaica, Queensborough: Marion Press, First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies. Original blue boards, gilt, in original box. Prospectus laid in. Bibliography of American Literature, entry binding A (no priority) (vol. 8, p. 260). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 90, entry A15.1. Scharnhorst, p. 364, entry The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 76

77 156. POSTCARDS. Concord, New York, Boston, etc. (ca ). Bundle of 32 Concord postcards, consisting of divided and undivided back cards, all unused. Depictions of the Thoreau-Alcott House, Old Manse, Orchard House, Thoreau-Alcott House, Emerson's grave, Concord School of Philosophy, the cairn at Walden Pond, etc. Also includes a postcard with the older style private mailing card caption that was in use from 1898 to 1901, dated Concord, Mass. 190_ and titled Thoreau House. The Thoreau-Alcott House, also known as the Yellow House Orchard House, home of the Alcotts The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 77

78 Ralph Waldo Emerson s house The Old Manse 157. Thoreau, Henry D. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. [1900.] First edition thus. Original pictorial color cloth. With introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 78

79 Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 12, entry A Jones, Samuel A. PERTAINING TO THOREAU. Detroit: Edwin B. Hill, First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. ALS from Hill tipped in, describing the printing and binding of this book, remarking that it was printed one page at a time on a hand-lever press on nights and holidays. The binder ruined it. According to the prospectus (not present, but an advertising broadside is present) the edition was to be 225 copies. Contains the book printings of several reviews and essays about Thoreau. Extremely rare and one of Hill s earliest and rarest imprints, and one of the key books that established Thoreau s modern reputation. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, pp. 94-5, entry Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 28 (July, 1949), p Jones, Samuel A. PERTAINING TO THOREAU. Detroit: Edwin B. Hill, First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Inscribed in 1902 by Alfred (Fred) Winslow Hosmer ( ) to Eugene H. Briggs. Hosmer was a relative of Edmund Hosmer, Thoreau s close friend and farmer-poet who helped him build the house at Walden Pond, and who was appreciatively mentioned in Walden. Hosmer clerked at a Concord dry goods store that he bought in 1898, and spent his spare time photographing Concord and collecting Thoreau materials (now preserved at the Concord Historical Society). His photographs were used in Marble s 1902 biography of Thoreau (Thoreau: His Home, Friends, and Books; see no. 170), and in the 1897 edition of Walden. He and Jones were voluminous correspondents, whose letters were part of the basis for Toward the Making of Thoreau s Modern Reputation (1979). Eugene Briggs was doubtless related to Charles F. Briggs, whose negative review of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is the third article in this book. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, pp. 94-5, entry Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 28 (July, 1949), p. 1. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 79

80 160. Sanborn, Franklin B. THE PERSONALITY OF THOREAU. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, First edition, one of 500 numbered copies. Original quarter linen boards, label. Bibliography of American Literature, entry form A (vol. 8, p. 260). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 178, entry C17. Boswell & Crouch, p. 147, entry Thoreau, Henry D. OF FRIENDSHIP. Cambridge: Riverside Press, First separate edition. Original quarter linen boards, gilt, uncut and unopened, in original box with label. With original inserted slip announcing that the edition was oversubscribed on publication. One of 500 copies printed. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 272). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 12, entry A1.6. Warde & Haas, p. 52, entry Channing, William Ellery. THOREAU: THE POET-NATURALIST. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, First edition thus. Original quarter cloth, label, uncut, with publisher s 4 page prospectus laid in. Edited by Frank Sanborn. Contains previously unpublished works by Thoreau. This regular issue of the edition exists in two bindings: full cloth with edges trimmed, and as here quarter cloth with uncut edges. There was also a limited edition of 250 copies on French handmade paper, and 25 copies on Japan vellum. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3084 (vol. 2, pp ) & (vol. 8, p. 261). Boswell & Crouch, p. 39, entry Channing, William Ellery. THOREAU: THE POET-NATURALIST. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, First edition thus. Original quarter cloth, morocco label, gilt, uncut, in marbled papercovered slipcase with silk pull. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 80

81 One of 250 numbered copies printed on French handmade paper. Edited by Frank Sanborn. Contains previously unpublished works by Thoreau. There was also a trade edition, and 25 copies printed on Japan vellum. This edition sold for $10 when new. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3084 (vol. 2, pp ) & (vol. 8, p. 261). Boswell & Crouch, p. 39, entry Channing, William Ellery. THOREAU: THE POET-NATURALIST. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, First edition thus. Original green cloth, paper label, edges trimmed. Edited by Frank Sanborn. Contains previously unpublished works by Thoreau. This regular issue of the edition exists in quarter cloth with uncut edges, and as here full cloth trimmed edges. There was also a limited edition of 250 copies on French handmade paper, and 25 copies on Japan vellum. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3084 (vol. 2, pp ) & (vol. 8, p. 261). Boswell & Crouch, p. 39, entry Channing, William Ellery. THOREAU: THE POET-NATURALIST. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, First edition thus. Original quarter vellum, black leather label, gilt, marbled board, uncut. One of 25 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum. Edited by Frank Sanborn. Contains previously unpublished works by Thoreau. There was also a trade edition, and 250 copies printed on French handmade paper. This edition sold for $25 when new. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 3084 (vol. 2, pp ) & (vol. 8, p. 261). Boswell & Crouch, p. 39, entry Marble, Annie R. THOREAU: HIS HOME, FRIENDS, AND BOOKS. New York: Crowell [1902]. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, uncut. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 81

82 Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 283, col. 2. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 116, entry Ricketson, Anna and Walton Ricketson. DANIEL RICKETSON AND HIS FRIENDS. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. With autograph presentation slip inserted at front: To E. Harlow Russell, Esq., With compliments of Anna & Walton Ricketson. Later ownership signature of Thoreau scholar Edmund Schofield. Russell inherited Thoreau s manuscripts from H. G. O. Blake. First printings of several letters from Thoreau to Ricketson, and several journal entries (owned by Russell). Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 261). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 178, entry C19. Boswell & Crouch, p. 141, entry Thoreau, Henry D. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE. Kent, England: Published for Subscribers at the Sign of the Hop-Pole, First separate edition. Original tan wrappers printed in black and green, uncut. One of 1,000 copies printed at the Chiswick Press. The first separate American edition was published in New York in 1936 (Borst A7.6). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 65, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. THE SERVICE. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, First edition. Original quarter linen boards, label, dust jacket. Inscribed by Charles Goodspeed. One of 500 numbered copies. Bibliography of American Literature, entry form A (vol. 8, p. 261). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 92, entrya16.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 148, entry The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 82

83 170. Thoreau, Henry D. THE SERVICE. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, First edition. Original quarter linen boards, label. Inscribed on the flyleaf by Frank Sanborn, F. B. Sanborn/ Concord, Mass/ December 15, 1902/ This day I am 71 years/ old. One of 500 numbered copies. The editor s own copy. Sanborn was a friend of Thoreau and early editor. Bibliography of American Literature, entry form A (vol. 8, p. 261). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 92, entrya16.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 148, entry Whiting, Lilian. BOSTON DAYS. Boston: Little, Brown, First edition. Original pale sage decorated cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, uncut. Breezy but often informative memoirs of New England authors with a chapter on Concord authors, facsimiles of letters, photos, etc. Thoreau, the Alcotts, Hawthorne, Emerson, Jones Very, Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Henry James, Stowe, et al Jones, Samuel A. THOREAU: A GLIMPSE. Concord: The Erudite Press, First trade edition. Original quarter green linen boards, label, uncut. The first edition was privately printed in Ann Arbor in Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 93, entry Higginson, Thomas W. PART OF A MAN S LIFE. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Inscribed by one J. G. Holmes in December, Contains a Thoreau letter in facsimile. The book was published in October. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 8472 (vol. 4, p. 175). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 179, entry C21. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 83

84 174. Hygienic Toothpick Company. HOTEL MCKINLEY UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT [Toledo, Ohio, ca. 1906]. Packet of toothpicks in advertising envelope with patent date of December 26, 1905 on one side and quote by Thoreau printed on the other: What wealth it is to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation. Thoreau quotation on Hotel McKinley toothpick pack 175. Thoreau, Henry D. FIRST AND LAST JOURNEYS. Boston: Bibliophile Society, vols. First edition. Printed on handmade paper. Original three-quarter brown calf, gilt, slipcases. Limited to 489 copies. Unrecorded with the original slipcases. Each volume is in a separate green slipcase with chemises; this same green slipcase was used for the copies printed on Japan paper. Bibliography of American Literature, entry form A (vol. 8, p. 262). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 96, entry A18.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 147, entry Thoreau, Henry D. FIRST AND LAST JOURNEYS. Boston: Bibliophile Society, vols. First edition. Printed on handmade paper. Original three-quarter brown calf, gilt, boxes. Limited to 489 copies. Unrecorded with the original boxes. Each volume is in a separate redbrown imitation alligator paper-covered box: this is the usual box found on this set, but a few copies are found in green slipcases with chemises (see no. 179), the same slipcase used for the handful of copies printed on Japan paper. Bibliography of American Literature, entry form A (vol. 8, p. 262). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 96, entry A18.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 147, entry The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 84

85 177. Thoreau, Henry D. FIRST AND LAST JOURNEYS. Boston: Bibliophile Society, vols. First edition. Original three-quarter vegetable vellum, gilt, in original green slipcase with chemises. Limited to 489 copies. This copy is one of a very small number printed on Japan vellum; perhaps a dozen copies were issued thus. For an idea of how many may have been on Japan paper see the colophon for the Bibliophile Society s 1909 edition of Walden (461 copies; plus 9 on Japan paper; 10 complimentary copies for William K. Bixby; 2 for copyright, and one for the editor). Bibliography of American Literature, entry form A (vol. 8, p. 262). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 96, entry A18.1 (this issue not recorded). Boswell & Crouch, p. 147, entry Thoreau, Henry D. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Boston: Bibliophile Society, First edition. Original three-quarter brown calf, gilt, box. Limited to 489 copies. The box is covered in red-brown imitation alligator pattern paper. Bibliography of American Literature, entry form A (vol. 8, p. 261). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 98, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Boston: Bibliophile Society, First edition. Original three-quarter vegetable vellum, gilt. Laid in is a proof of a Thoreau portrait that does not appear in the book, a receipt for this volume and the Japan paper edition of First and Last Journeys (2 vols.), a typed note about the history of the manuscript, and a TLS from the Bibliophile Society to the buyer of this copy regarding the shipping. Limited to 489 copies. This is one of a very few copies printed on Japan vellum; perhaps a dozen of the 489 copies were issued thus. For an idea of how many Japan paper copies may have been printed, see the colophon in the Bibliophile Society s 1909 edition of Walden (461 copies; plus 9 on Japan vellum). Bibliography of American Literature, entry form A (vol. 8, p. 261). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 98, entry A19.1 (this issue not recorded). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 85

86 180. Thoreau, Henry D. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Boston: Bibliophile Society, First edition. Original full blue-green crushed morocco, raised bands, inner dentilles gilt, top edge gilt, silk ribbon marker, uncut. Limited to 489 copies. This binding by the Harcourt Bindery of Boston has the Bibliophile Society emblem in gilt on front and back covers, but is not recorded. Obviously a special binding prepared for a society member, probably Frederick S. Peck, whose bookplate is on the front pastedown. For an idea of how many special copies might have been prepared see the colophon for the Bibliophile Society s 1909 edition of Walden (461 copies; plus 9 on Japan paper; 10 complimentary copies for William K. Bixby, 2 copies for copyright, and one for the editor). Bibliography of American Literature, entry form A (vol. 8, p. 261). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 98, entry A Bibliophile Society. FIFTH YEAR BOOK. Boston: Printed for member only. [1906.] First edition. Original full vegetable vellum, paper label, uncut, in two part red slip case with label. One of 500 copies. Prints a Thoreau letter and some aphorisms. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 262) Thoreau, Henry D. A LITTLE BOOK OF NATURE THEMES. Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, First edition. Printed on Van Gelder paper. Original blue printed wrappers, tissue dust jacket, plain box with label. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 273). Bishop, Thomas Bird Mosher: Prince of Publishers, entry 209. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 207, entry E6. Boswell & Crouch, p. 176, entry The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 86

87 183. Thoreau, Henry D. A LITTLE BOOK OF NATURE THEMES. Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, First edition. On Japan vellum. Original white printed wrappers, tissue dust jacket, in original wall-paper patterned box with label that varies from the box used for Van Gelder paper copies. Piece missing from the box. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 273). Bishop, Thomas Bird Mosher: Prince of Publishers, entry 209. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 207, entry E6. Boswell & Crouch, p. 176, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THE WRITINGS THE MANUSCRIPT EDITION. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, vols. First edition, number 39 of 600 sets. Original three-quarter green levant morocco, raised bands, gilt compartment with stylized dandelions, Morris paper sides, top edge gilt, silk markers, with the extra set of hand-colored photogravures by Herbert W. Gleason inserted (in addition the carbon photographs found in every set), uncut, with the original prospectus and sample pages laid in with outer cover of envelope and a sample copy of volume 14 in full morocco specially dyed in several colors, silk doublers, etc. (as a sample volume it included no hand-colored frontis). Fresh set, the spines entirely unfaded (they are nearly always badly faded). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 87

88 Houghton Mifflin wrote to F. A. Swanson of Big Creek, California, in May 1933 that about 200 sets were put into fine bindings in various styles of full and three-quarter morocco (HDT Newsletter 210, Winter 1995, page 11). The prospectus lists the cloth issue at $5 per volume, this three-quarter morocco at $12.50, and the full leather at $25 to $75 per volume. Leather sets were issued with the extra set of hand-colored photogravures. Edited by Francis H. Allen with assistance from Bradford Torrey. The manuscript leaf inserted in this set is from Walden (7 ½ x 5 inches; just over two-hundred words; very fine). Of the 165 sets of this edition located by Bradley Dean only 9 were confirmed to have a leaf from Walden (Thoreau Research Newsletter II:2, April 1991, page 5). The text of the manuscript in this set is from near the end of the chapter, Baker Farm and contains the account of his fishing with his neighbor who lived in the Lincoln woods, the impoverished simple-minded Irishman John Field. It also contains the first five lines of Ellery Channing s poem Oh Baker Farm! and a classic Thoreauvian injunction: Seek in thy own fashion thy daily food thy sustenance Is it not in Nature? Is not to get thy living the noblest sport? Make it not like the merchant a game of checquers. Let it not be thy trade but a game of character. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and confidence in the gods, men are where they are, buying and selling, owning land, following trades, and spending their time ignobly like serfs. This Wordsworthian passage echoes Thoreau s famous sentiment that the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Detail from Walden manuscript This leaf is from an early draft (possibly Shanley s group 2 4, copied in part by Thoreau from his journal entry of August 23, 1845, just six weeks after moving to Walden Pond on July 4, 1845) when he first recorded his experience fishing with Field in nearly identical words as given here, but without any poetry or philosophical musings. The text is at considerable variance with the final text of Walden, but contains extensive pencil additions and cancellations by Thoreau that more closely resemble the final published text. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 88

89 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 100, entry A20.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 148, entry Howarth: not cited THROUGH THE YEAR WITH AMERICAN POETS. New York: Dodge Publishing. [1907.] First edition. Original stiff white wrappers with embossed color and gilt dust jacket. Anthology includes an unusual selection of poems by Emily Dickinson (p. 41), Thoreau (p. 44), Stowe, Longfellow, A. B. Alcott, E. R. Sill, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Emerson, Burroughs, Garrison, Howells, Gilder, Bryant, Brainard, Fields, et al. No editor or compiler identified. Not in BAL, Borst, Myerson, etc THROUGH THE YEAR WITH AMERICAN POETS. New York: Dodge Publishing (1907). First edition. Original pictorial green cloth, label, gilt, uncut. Anthology includes an unusual selection of poems by Emily Dickinson (p. 41), Thoreau (p. 44), Stowe, Longfellow, A. B. Alcott, E. R. Sill, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Emerson, Burroughs, Garrison, Howells, Gilder, Bryant, Brainard, Fields, et al. No editor or compiler identified. Not in BAL, Borst, Myerson, etc IN TOUCH WITH THOREAU. Buffalo: [Harriet Townsend] First edition thus. Original printed pictorial grey yapped wrappers. Compiled and probably published by Townsend. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 273) UNPUBLISHED POEMS BY BRYANT AND THOREAU. Boston: Bibliophile Society, First edition. Contained in a paper slipcase lettered Bryant Thoreau Poems Pattern on pine and with red ink not on the front panel: Mr. Harper would like this Bryant and The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 89

90 Thoreau returned to him. All material for this job reported as being now in. 5/28/1907 and a pencil note below Complete pattern copy of Bryant & Thoreau Poems. The proofs are printed on the same combination of vellum, imitation vellum, and paper as the book. One of 470 copies printed. Henry Harper s own set of proof sheets, with the original typescript to the introduction by Curtis Hidden Page, with his ink corrections. The proofs consist of the complete text of the printed book, with the exception of the half-title: colophon page, the Bibliophile imprint leaf, the title-page, the Curtis introduction and Frank Sanborn introductions, the four pages of facsimiles of the Thoreau and Bryant manuscripts, plus their printed texts, and the two plates. Bibliography of American Literature, entries 1805 (vol. 1, p. 365) & entry (vol. 8, p. 263). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography A Allen, Francis H. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOREAU. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original cloth, label, uncut. Limited to 530 copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 283, col. 2. Boswell & Crouch, p. 7, entry 85. Warde & Haas, p. 59, entry Perry, Bliss. PARK-STREET PAPERS. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original brown pictorial cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by Perry in October Designed by Bruce Rogers. Contains two Thoreau letters. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 180, entry C23. Warde & Haas, p. 59, entry Perry, Bliss. PARK-STREET PAPERS. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original brown boards, paper label, uncut. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 90

91 One of 250 in special binding. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Contains two Thoreau letters. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 180, entry C23. Warde & Haas, p. 59, entry Sanborn, Franklin B. HAWTHORNE AND HIS FRIENDS. Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, First edition, privately printed in a small edition. Original boards, leather label, gilt, uncut. Many references to Thoreau. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 4, p. 35, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 147, entry Clark, Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography, pp , entry C Stevenson, Robert L. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, HIS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS. Pittsfield, Mass.: The Caxton Society, First separate edition. Original printed wrappers. Issued as Number 7 in Series A of the Caxton Brochures. Cf. Boswell & Crouch, pp , entry 1862 for this essay, but not in this separate printing Higginson, Thomas W. CARLYLE S LAUGH & OTHER SURPRISES. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Contains a chapter on Thoreau. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 8495 (vol. 4, p. 178). Boswell & Crouch, p. 84, entry Marble, Annie R. A THOREAU CALENDAR. New York: Crowell, First edition. Original maroon limp suede, gilt, yapped edges, silk marker. Marble wrote a biography of Thoreau in 1902 (see no. 170), also published by Crowell. This calendar appears to be the only one she did. Borst records a calendar edited by E. M. Evors in 1912 (p. 208, entry E14), but not this one. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 91

92 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 274). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Sanborn, Franklin B. RECOLLECTIONS OF SEVENTY YEARS. Boston: The Gorham Press, vols. First edition. Original grey boards, labels, uncut. Inscribed by Sanborn with ALS laid in. Limited to 50 copies on large paper. Includes much on Thoreau and Concord. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 147, entry IN AMERICAN FIELDS AND FORESTS. Boston, New York, Chicago: Houghton, Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press, First edition, variant imprint. Original green cloth, gilt. An anonymously edited anthology of nature writings by Thoreau, Muir, Burroughs, Torrey, Dallas Lore Sharp, and Olive Thorne Miller. The first printing was 442 copies, plus 57 copies for the Reading Club. Bibliography of American Literature notes this strange imprint that includes Chicago, but says status unknown. Possibly one of the copies run off for the Reading Club, whoever and wherever they were. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 1, p. 447, col. 1 (Burroughs), entry (vol. 6, p. 400) (Muir, the primary entry), & vol. 8, p. 282, col. 2 (Thoreau) Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, vols. First edition thus. Original three-quarter vegetable vellum, gilt, boxed. One of 461 copies printed. Edited by Frank Sanborn. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 263). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 29, entry A2.11. Boswell & Crouch, p, 148, entry One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry 63. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 92

93 199. Furness, Horace H. RECORDS OF A LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. One of 780 numbered copies. Documents Emerson s friendships with Samuel Bradford, Furness, etc., with mention of Thoreau. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 5322 (vol. 3, p. 44). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Myerson, pp , entry A Thoreau, Henry D. NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND BIRDS. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, first printing. Original grey-blue cloth, gilt, with the folding map at end. Edited by Francis H. Allen. The edition was 1,587 copies, but only 651 were bound and issued. In 1925 the 881 remaining copies were re-issued with a new title-page under the title, Thoreau s Bird Lore. Fifty-five sets of sheets are not accounted for. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 274). Borst Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 104, entry A20.2.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 8, entry Watts-Dunton, Theodore. HENRY THOREAU AND OTHER CHILDREN OF THE OPEN AIR. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, First edition. Original grey-blue printed boards. Most Torch Press editions were small, consisting of a few hundred copies. Two essays by Watts-Dunton, the first a review of Page s biography of Thoreau, first published in a magazine in Watts-Dunton also wrote the introduction to the Oxford University Press edition of Walden (1906). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 93

94 202. Browne, Waldo R. JOYS OF THE ROAD, A LITTLE ANTHOLOGY IN PRAISE OF WALKING. Chicago: Browne s Bookstore, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, uncut. An attractively printed brief anthology of writings on walking, including Thoreau s essay, poems by Walt Whitman, Arthur Symons, William Morris, and Bliss Carman, and essays by Hazlitt, Stevenson, and Burroughs. Printed at the Merrymount Press. Brown s Bookstore published at least fourteen similar books, all in 1911, and they were located in a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908 (now demolished). Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited Tolman, George. CATALOGUE OF A PORTION OF THE COLLECTION OF THE CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. Concord: Published by the Society, First edition. Original blue printed wrappers, yapped edges. 2 copies. This catalogue lists their huge holdings from Thoreau s estate and Thoreau family pieces, mostly donated by his sister Sophia in the 1870s. Items 23, 45, 78, 610, and 648 through 680 describe Thoreau s Walden furniture, surveying equipment, flute, his last pen, his Bible, the Dunshee ambrotype, etc. Catalogue of a Portion of the Collection of the Concord Antiquarian Society: detail showing Thoreau items The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 94

95 204. Lowell, James R. THE ROUND TABLE. Boston: The Gorham Press, Richard Badger, First edition. Original maroon cloth, label, top edge gilt, uncut. One of 1,000 copies printed. Prints Lowell s review of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 6, p. 65) Thoreau, Henry D. WALKING. [Cambridge] The Riverside Press, First separate edition. Original quarter linen, gilt, uncut, tissue dust jacket, grey-green glazed paper-covered box. Prospectus laid in. Limited to 550 numbered copies. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 275). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 43, entry A3.7. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 95

96 206. Thoreau, Henry D. CANOEING IN THE WILDERNESS. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company/ The Riverside Press, First edition. Original light green pictorial cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. This is a reprint of the last half of The Maine Woods, edited by travel writer Clifton Johnson. The edition was 1,594 copies, but only 1,249 copies were bound between 1916 and June 1928 when the unbound reminder was pulped. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 275) TWO THOREAU LETTERS. [Mesa, Arizona: Edwin B. Hill, 1916.] First edition. Original plain salmon wrappers. One of 250 copies printed. Hill produced a dated reprint of this pamphlet in Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 264). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 109, entry A Van Doren, Mark. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, A CRITICAL STUDY. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Van Doren s first book inscribed for collector Eugene L. Delafield on the half-title in 1947, and again in 1949 with a long note about the publication of this book on the verso of the front free end paper in which he admits paying the publisher $200 to offset the cost of publication. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 283, col. 2. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 173, entry The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 96

97 Mark Van Doren s inscription in Henry David Thoreau, A Critical Study 209. Emerson, Edward W. HENRY THOREAU AS REMEMBERED BY A YOUNG FRIEND. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Inscribed by Edith Emerson Forbes to a young girl in 1918 with a picture of Forbes and the girl pasted on inside front cover. In chipped jacket. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 284, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 180, entry C25. Boswell & Crouch, p. 55, entry Gleason, Herbert W. THROUGH THE YEAR WITH THOREAU. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, primary binding. Original grey-blue pictorial cloth, gilt. The center cartouche is printed in light blue-grey and green, and the borders are filled with floral designs. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 275). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 208, entry E15. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 97

98 211. Gleason, Herbert W. THROUGH THE YEAR WITH THOREAU. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original dark blue-black pictorial dust jacket. The center cartouche is printed only in gilt and there are no floral designs surrounding it as in the primary binding. The dust jacket replicates the design of the primary binding with the floral designs in the outer margin of the front cover. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 98

99 The primary binding was probably expensive to produce and using this plainer binding and simply printing the design on the dust jacket was probably cheaper. No bibliographer describes the binding(s) for this volume. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 275). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 208, entry E15. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Sanborn, Franklin B. THE LIFE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First trade edition. Original blue cloth, gilt, dust jacket. With compliments slip from the author with HMCo logo. Jacket has a few light creases. The dust jacket gives the title as A Life of Henry D. Thoreau. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 264). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 181, entry C26. Boswell & Crouch, p. 148, entry Sanborn, Franklin B. THE LIFE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original quarter linen boards, uncut. One of 200 copies. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 264). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 181, entry C26. Boswell & Crouch, p. 148, entry THE LOYALTY OF FRIENDSHIP. New York: Barse & Hopkins, First edition (variant issue). Original gilt wrappers, sewn with silk ribbon as issued. A collection of quotes published under Thoreau s name only because his quote is the first printed. This book was also issued under the title The Loyalty of Friendship by Mark Twain, with Twain s quote printed first. In this copy the text ornaments are printed in purple instead of red as in the Twain issue; this booklet may have been issued in still other formats under the names of the other authors whose quotes were included: Twain, Emerson, Stevenson, Holmes. Searches for other formats, titles, and authors, returned no success. Borst (Bibliography) records this booklet but does not assign a date; Bibliography of American The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 99

100 Literature records it only under the Twain title, although numerous reprints of Thoreau s essay on friendship are not recorded. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 3679 (vol. 2, p. 243). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 15, entry A THE LOYALTY OF FRIENDSHIP. New York: Barse & Hopkins, First edition (variant issue). Original pale green basket-weave pattern wrappers, stamped in dark blue, sewn with silk ribbon as issued. A collection of quotes published under Thoreau s name only because his quote is the first printed. This book was also issued under the title The Loyalty of Friendship by Mark Twain, with Twain s quote printed first. In this copy the text ornaments are printed in brown instead of red as in the Twain issue. This booklet may have been issued in still other formats under the names of the other authors whose quotes were included: Twain, Emerson, Stevenson, Holmes, etc. Borst (Bibliography) records this booklet but does not assign a date, Bibliography of American Literature records it only under the Twain title, although numerous reprints of Thoreau s essay on friendship are not recorded. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 3679 (vol. 2, p. 243). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 15, entry A A LITTLE BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP. New York: Barse & Hopkins, First edition thus. Original imitation brown and green mottled leather, gilt, top edge gilt, tissue wrapper, in original lidded gift box with label. An expanded version of The Loyalty of Friendship, with type reset and many quotes added: two by Thoreau, two by Twain, one by Bronson Alcott, one by Emerson, and others by Stowe, Kipling, Stevenson, Holmes, George MacDonald, etc. With a gift inscription dated Mac Donnell has seen copies inscribed as early as Emerson, Edward W. THE EARLY YEARS OF THE SATURDAY CLUB. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Rare thus. Several mentions of Thoreau, and a brief account of Twain s speech at the Whittier birthday dinner. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 100

101 Not in Boswell & Crouch, Borst, Tenney Higginson, Thomas W. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original blue cloth, label, uncut. Includes material on Twain and Thoreau, among others. Bibliography of American Literature, entry 8508 (vol. 4, p. 180). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Thoreau, Henry D. NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT. New York: Hubert Rutherford Brown, First separate edition. Original black mottled boards, spine label, in original striped glassine dust jacket. One of 400 copies printed by William Edwin Rudge. Illustrated by Florence Wyman Ivins. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Borst calls this the first and only edition and treats it as a primary item. Bibliography of American Literature includes it in the secondary section without comment. This essay first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and was collected in Excursions (1863). Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 275). Blumenthal, The Printed Book in America, pp Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 113, entry A24.1. Warde & Haas, p. 66, entry Thoreau, Henry D. WILD APPLES. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First separate edition. Original green decorated boards, dust jacket. This essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly for November The essay is really a history of man within and without Nature, as traced through his history of cultivating orchards. Thoreau revised this and two other essays and sent them to the magazine s editor, James T. Fields, shortly before his death in May. This essay on apples was published just as apples were coming into season in New England. This essay was collected in Excursions (1863). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 101

102 Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 43, entry A American Art Association. THE STEPHEN H. WAKEMAN COLLECTION OF BOOKS. New York: American Art Association, First edition. Original printed wrappers. Wakeman Catalog items showing 1924 auction prices penciled in The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 102

103 Includes numerous Thoreau manuscripts and letters, reproduced and extracted at length. Unlike the reprint in cloth, this original catalog has been marked with the identities of many of the buyers. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 284, col Bazalgette, Leon. HENRY THOREAU, BACHELOR OF NATURE. New York: Harcourt, Brace, First edition in English. Original dark green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Presentation copy, with inscription pasted in, ALS from the author tipped in, and presentation label pasted on inside cover. Translated from the French by Van Wyck Brooks. The first edition was published in Paris in an edition of 121 copies. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 13, entry Bazalgette, Léon. HENRY THOREAU, SAUVAGE. Paris: F. Rieder & Co., First edition. Original yellow printed wrappers, uncut. Inscribed by the author: A Bob Claessens en ferme amitie, L. Bazalgette. ( To Bob Claessens in firm friendship. ) One of 121 copies printed. This is one of the 100 copies, but is unnumbered. There were 6 unnumbered copies on Hollande van Gelder paper for presentation, 15 copies on Hollande van Gelder numbered 1 15, and 100 copies on regular paper numbered This biography was translated into English the same year by Van Wyck Brooks. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 13, entry Phelps, William L. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, A STUDY. New York: MacMillan, First edition. Original blue wrappers, sewn with silk cord. Phelps own copy, with bookplate. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 103

104 This essay was the first chapter of Phelps book Howells, James, Bryant, and Other Essays published in 1924, and was probably issued as a promotional piece or for presentation by Phelps. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 136, entry 1584 (book only) Scarceriaux, Jules. H. D. THOREAU BRONZE PLAQUE (n.p., n.d., ca. 1925). Bronze plaque, 8 x 6 inches, signed J. Scarceriaux at lower right of a relief portrait of Thoreau, and stamped in small letters on the reverse with the name of the artist and the name of this piece Jules Scarceriaux/ Teacher of France. Scarceriaux plaque of Thoreau The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 104

105 Scarceriaux ( ) was a Belgian-born anarchist who came to the United States and later lived in California. He taught pottery and brick-making at the Ferrer Modern School, as did Joseph Ishill (no. 300 below), a long-time admirer of Thoreau. Few of his works are extant. He is known to have made a bust of Jeanne d Arc and plaque of Tolstoy Thoreau, Henry D. THOREAU S BIRD-LORE, BEING NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND BIRDS. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, first printing, second issue. Original green cloth, gilt, with the folding map at end, dust jacket. Edited by Francis H. Allen. The edition was 1,587 copies, but only 651 were bound and issued in In 1925 the 881 remaining copies were re-issued with a new title-page under the title, Thoreau s Bird Lore. Fifty-five sets of sheets are not accounted for. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 274). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 104, entry A20.2.b. Boswell & Crouch, p. 8, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THOREAU S LAST LETTER. Amenia, New York: Privately Printed at the Troutbeck Press, First edition. Original buff printed wrappers. Limited to 200 copies. Note by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Laid in the return address portion of an envelope from the printer (J. E. Spingarn of the Troutbeck Press) with notation that this gift was acknowledged October 24, Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 115, entry A A TROUTBECK LETTER-BOOK. Amenia, New York: Privately Printed at the Troutbeck Press, First edition. Original lavender printed wrappers, uncut. One of 200 copies. Includes texts of letters from Emerson, Sophia Thoreau (five days after her brother s death), and others, to Myron Benton. With TLS from the printer laid in Ticknor, Caroline. CLASSIC CONCORD. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 105

106 One of 1,050 copies. Contains numerous extracts of Thoreau s works. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Atkinson, J. Brooks. HENRY THOREAU, THE COSMIC YANKEE. New York: Knopf, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 10, entry CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY OR PERTAINING TO HENRY DAVID THOREAU. New York: G. A. Baker & Co., First edition. Original pictorial wrappers. The date is assigned based on the most recently dated book in the collection (1926). A good collection of first editions and secondary material, including a 3 pp. college manuscript, one ALS, a leaf of manuscript from Maine Woods, and two books from his library. Mac Donnell s copy of Sanborn s Recollections of Seventy Years (no. 201) is from this collection and was bought by one Marvin Edward Hatch from Goodspeed s June 25, 1926, possibly a clue to who formed this collection. Hatch may have been related to the Concord family that knew the Emersons. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Thoreau, Henry D. THE HEART OF THOREAU S JOURNALS. Edited by Odell Shepard. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, trade issue. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 276). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 104, entry A20.3.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 154, entry The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 106

107 233. Thoreau, Henry D. THE HEART OF THOREAU S JOURNALS. Edited by Odell Shepard. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original red cloth, paper label, uncut. Limited issue, one of 300 bound uncut with paper label. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 276). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p.104, entry A20.3.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 154, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THE MOON. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Quarter parchment and lavender boards, gilt, uncut, tissue dust jacket, boxed. One of 500 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 265). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 117, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. WINTER ANIMALS. Westport, Conn.: Georgian Press, First edition. Original folded sheets, unstitched. One of 250 copies printed. This essay, actually chapter 15 from Walden, was published as a Christmas greeting for Esther and Richard Ellis, but its precise distribution is confused by the fact that the colophon appears in several different forms. Borst notes an edition of 60 copies, and another issue of 20 copies for Mitchell Kennedy (none located), but not this edition of 250 copies nor Mac Donnell s copy from an edition of 40 copies printed for Richard Ellis Rotarian friends, nor Mac Donnell s copy from an edition of 40 copies for the friends of Ned Thompson. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 31, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. WINTER ANIMALS. Westport, Conn.: Georgian Press, First edition. Original grey-green boards, wrap-around label, uncut. One of 40 copies printed for the publisher s Rotarian friends. This essay, actually chapter 15 from Walden, was published as a Christmas greeting for Esther and Richard Ellis, but its precise distribution is confused by the fact that the colophon appears in several different forms. This copy is inscribed by Richard Ellis to Karl Keys, a Rotarian friend. Borst notes an The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 107

108 edition of 60 copies, and another issue of 20 copies for Mitchell Kennedy (none located), but not this edition nor Mac Donnell s copy in unsewn sheets from an edition of 250 copies, nor Mac Donnell s copy from an edition of 40 copies for friends of Ned Thompson. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 31, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. WINTER ANIMALS. Westport, Conn.: Georgian Press, First edition. Original grey-green boards, wrap-around label, uncut. One of 40 copies printed for the friends of Ned Thompson. This essay, actually chapter 15 from Walden, was published as a Christmas greeting for Esther and Richard Ellis, but its precise distribution is confused by the fact that the colophon is found in several forms. Borst notes an edition of 60 copies, and another issue of 20 copies for Mitchell Kennedy (none located), but not this edition nor Mac Donnell s copy in unsewn sheets from an edition of 250 copies, nor Mac Donnell s copy from an edition of 40 copies for the Rotarian friends of the publisher. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 31, entry A THE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SEVEN BRAHMANS. New York: William Rudge, Trial edition, the only copy known. Original quarter black linen and marbled boards and small linen corners, gilt leather, label on front cover, uncut, original plain tissue dust jacket. The front end paper carries an ink note that explains the status of this copy: This edition of the Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans is the first book printed from the Baskerville types recut by George W. Jones & printed by my friend W. E. Rudge of Mount Vernon, New York, and presented to Mr. Carl Jones 12 Oct George Jones. Printed on paper watermarked Dard Hunter and dated 1930 on the title-page. The colophon states this was an edition of 500 copies, but this plan was undoubtedly abandoned this is the only copy known. This copy does not have the facsimile insert which probably had not yet been prepared. Other than the title-page date and colophon leaf, there are no obvious differences in the type-setting. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited. No copies in OCLC. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 108

109 239. THE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SEVEN BRAHMANS. New York: William Rudge, First edition. Original quarter morocco and linen boards, gilt, boxed. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Borst notes that he was unable to find a copy in the original box. Bibliography of American Literature, entry form 1 (vol. 8, p. 265). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 119, entry A27.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 40, entry THE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SEVEN BRAHMANS. New York: William Rudge, copies. First trade edition. Original orange cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Limited to 1,000 copies. Bibliography of American Literature, entry form 2 (vol. 8, p. 265). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 119, entry A27.1.b. Boswell & Crouch, p. 40, entry Christy, Arthur. A THOREAU FACT-BOOK [contained in] THE COLOPHON. PART SIXTEEN. New York, March First edition. Original pictorial color boards, uncut. One of 2,500 copies. Boswell & Crouch, p. 40, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THE STORY OF MY PRISONS. [n.p., n.d., ca ] First separate edition. Original stiff wrappers, red paper label printed in gold. 12 pages, printed on Normandy vellum. French handmade paper, uncut. This pamphlet is wholly unrecorded and a bit mysterious. The choice of type fonts and style of printing suggest a Grabhorn Press imitator of the 1920s to 1940s. The presswork is neat but the register is poor and type-setting is poor also (letter spacing, use of initial letters from a font not quite large enough for the job). There is no colophon or imprint of any kind, all The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 109

110 leading Mac Donnell to think this was an aborted project, perhaps a proof, or even a privately printed Christmas greeting that contained a slip or card now lost. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. OCLC records no copies under this or a similar title. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 110

111 243. Adams, Raymond. THE THOREAU LIBRARY OF RAYMOND ADAMS. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, First edition. Original grey printed wrappers, with the 1937 Supplement. Signed by Adams. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 284, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 4, entry Thoreau, Henry D. HOUSE-WARMING AND WINTER VISITORS. [Camden, New Jersey:] Privately printed, First edition. Original marbled boards, label, glassine dust jacket, slipcase. The jacket is torn, and the box is worn. Printed by the Haddon Craftsmen as a Christmas greeting. Two essays extracted from Walden. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 277). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 32, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE. New York: The Powgen Press, First separate American edition. Original terra cotta cloth, paper label, dust jacket. Illustrations by Susanne Suba. This is one of two Library of Congress copyright deposit copies, sold as a duplicate, with no marks except the LC surplus duplicate stamp on front end paper. The first separate edition was published in England in 1902 (Borst, p. 65, entry A7.3). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 65, entry A7.6 (noting only wrappers) Shepard, Odell. PEDDLAR S PROGRESS, THE LIFE OF BRONSON ALCOTT. Boston: Little, Brown, First edition. Original three-quarter tan cloth, gilt, label, top edge gilt, uncut, boxed. One of 500 numbered and signed copies. Numerous references and passages on Thoreau. Winner of 1938 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 111

112 Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 1, p. 26, col. 2. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS. New York: The Modern Library [1937]. First edition, later printing? Original blue cloth, gilt. From the library of Allen Tate, with his signature on front end paper. Edited by Brooks Atkinson, a friend of Tate. Andes, p. 180 (ML H (stated first not seen)) Canby, Henry S. THOREAU. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First trade edition. Original brown cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Contains the first printings of some letters and part of his 1849 journal. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 284, col. 2. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 181, entry C27; Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 36, entry Canby, Henry S. THOREAU. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition. Original cream cloth, gilt, boxed. Signed. Limited to 265 numbered copies. Contained the first printings of some letters and part of his 1849 journal. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 284, col. 2. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 181, entry C27; Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 36, entry THE LIVING THOUGHTS OF THOREAU PRESENTED BY THEODORE DREISER. New York: Longmans, Green, First edition. Original orange cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Inscribed on the title-page from Dreiser to his mistress, Yvette Szekely (later, Mrs. Max Eastman): For Yvette because, whether The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 112

113 you sense it or not you have Thoreau s untamed and un-estranged approach to life from T. D., Glendale, Calif., March Theodore Dreiser s inscription to Yvette Szekely in presentation copy of The Living Thoughts of Thoreau Dreiser met Eastman in 1929, when he was 58 and she was just 16, and their affair began within months (his seduction of her was second degree rape under New York law). She published a memoir of their relationship (Dearest Wilding: A Memoir, 1995, which accompanies this book) and printed Dreiser s letters to her, including one dated April 14, 1939 in which he ends the letter asking Did you try to read Thoreau? Cf. Loving, J. The Last Titan (2005), pp , for an account of their relationship. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 113

114 251. Wade, Joseph S. A CONTRIBUTION TO A BIBLIOGRAPHY FROM 1909 TO 1936 OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. [New York: New York Entomological Society, 1939.] Off-print from vol. 47 (June 1939), pp , and bound with White s Thoreau bibliography of the same year. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 284, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited White, William. A HENRY DAVID THOREAU BIBLIOGRAPHY Boston: The F. W. Faxon Company, First edition. Original tan printed wrappers. Bound into red cloth together with J. S. Wade s Thoreau bibliography of the same year. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 284, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited Cook, Reginald L. THE CONCORD SAUNTERER. Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College Press, First edition. Original printed boards, oatmeal paper dust jacket, and prospectus laid in. One of 600 copies printed. Includes some unpublished letters, and a checklist of Middlebury s extensive holdings. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 181, entry C29. Boswell & Crouch, p. 43, entry 522 and p. 179, entry LeBrun, Jean M. HENRY THOREAU S MOTHER. Ysleta, Texas: E. B. Hill, First edition. Original printed blue wrappers. Limited to 100 copies. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 106, entry 1251 (cites only the original newspaper appearance). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 114

115 255. Thoreau, Henry D. THE SEASONS. [Ysleta, Texas: Edwin B. Hill, ca ] Second separate edition. Sheet folded to 4 pages. One of fifty copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature describes this edition (over 8 inches tall, limited to fifty copies) as the 1940 edition; and describes the 1916 edition as being 6 5/8 inches tall, and limited to 250 copies and cites a copy of that printing that was received by the Library of Congress in Borst calls this taller edition of fifty copies the 1916 edition and makes no mention of the 1940 imprint; Borst is obviously in error. Bibliography of American Literature, entries (vol. 8, pp ) (1916 edition) & (vol. 8, p. 277) (1940 edition). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 111, entry A THE THOREAU SOCIETY BULLETIN. (Walter Harding, ed.) A complete run (with number 2 in facsimile) through #285 (Spring 2014). Boswell & Crouch, p. 78, entry 947 and p. 169, entry Lee, Harry. MORE DAY TO DAWN. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce [1941]. First edition. Original silver cloth, stamped in white, dust jacket. Chipped jacket. Biography of Thoreau, written mostly in verse. Not in Boswell & Crouch, BAL, etc Emerson, Ralph W. HENRY D. THOREAU: EMERSON S OBITUARY. Ysleta, Texas: Edwin B. Hill, First edition. Original blue printed wrappers. Boswell & Crouch: not cited HENRY D. THOREAU TO ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH. Ysleta, Texas: Edwin B. Hill, First edition. Folded, as issued. One of 60 copies printed. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 115

116 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 125, A HENRY DAVID THOREAU TO GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. Ysleta, Texas: Edwin B. Hill, First edition. Folded, as issued. One of 40 copies. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 256). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 123, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. COLLECTED POEMS OF HENRY THOREAU. (Carl Bode, ed.) Chicago: Packard & Co., First trade edition, first printing. Original quarter cloth, paper label, dust jacket. Inscribed by the editor, Carl Bode. Issued in two formats, the other being a Critical Edition with bibliographic information on the printing of the poems. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 266). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 127, entry A30.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 18, entry Thoreau, Henry D. COLLECTED POEMS OF HENRY THOREAU. (Carl Bode, ed.) Chicago: Packard & Co., First critical edition, first printing. Original quarter cloth, paper label. Issued in two formats, the other being a trade edition without the extensive critical apparatus at end of text. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 266). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 127, entry A30.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 18, entry 215. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 116

117 263. Derleth, August. AND YOU, THOREAU! Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions [1944]. First edition. Original green printed boards, dust jacket. In the Poets of the Years series. Review copy with slip tipped to front end paper with publication date, and rubber-stamp on rear end paper reading Editorial Copy Emerson, Edward W. EDWARD W. EMERSON: LETTERS TO EDWIN B. HILL. Ysleta, Texas: Edwin B. Hill, First edition. Original plain wrappers. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Emerson, Ralph W. THOREAU S PENCILS, AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER FROM RALPH WALDO EMERSON TO CAROLINE STURGIS, 19 MAY, [Cambridge: Houghton Library Brochure Number Four, 6 January, 1944]. First edition. Original French-folder wrappers and text. In original Houghton Library envelope, as issued. One of 75 copies printed, each numbered with an original Thoreau pencil. Bibliography of American Literature 5336 (vol. 3, p. 47). Boswell & Crouch: not cited. Myerson, pp , entry A Hill, Edwin B. IN MEMORY OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Ysleta, Texas: Edwin B. Hill, First edition. Original green printed wrappers. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Hill, Edwin B. THOREAU FROM HIS BOOKS AND READING. Ysleta, Texas: Edwin B. Hill, First edition. Self-wrappers. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 117

118 One of 30 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, pp ). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 210, entry E Jones, Samuel A. THOREAU S INCARCERATION. [Bridgewater, Mass: Walter Harding, 1946]. First edition. Original self-wrappers, stapled as issued. This article first appeared in The Inlander for December Thoreau Society Booklet Number 4. Boswell & Crouch, p. 94, entry Robbins, Roland W. DISCOVERY AT WALDEN. [Stoneham, Mass: George B. Barnstead, 1947]. First edition. Original cream cloth, dust jacket. Inscribed by the author in Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 142, entry Thoreau, Henry D. A PIG TALE. New Fairfield, Conn.: Bruce Rogers, First separate edition. Original mauve printed wrappers, uncut. Copies are also recorded with the imprint of A. Colish. The size of the edition is unknown. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 278). Borst, A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 105, entry A Harding, Walter. A CHECK LIST OF THOREAU S LECTURES [contained in] BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. New York: NYPL, First edition. Vol. 52:2 (February 1948). Original printed wrappers. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 284, col. 2. Borst, A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 118

119 272. Harding, Walter. THOREAU S DIPLOMA. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Walter Harding, October First edition. Single sheet printed on both sides. A facsimile of the diploma on one side and Harding s history of the diploma on the other. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 5. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Stowell, Robert F. A THOREAU GAZETTEER. Calais, Vermont: The Poor Farm Press, First edition, privately printed. Original buff printed folder with pocket containing stapled 8 pages of text, and five separate maps laid in. This was the prototype for the book published in 1970 by Princeton. Boswell & Crouch, p. 163, entry Thoreau, Henry D. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, QUOTATIONS FROM HIS WRITINGS. Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. One of 750 copies printed by Daniel B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Edited by Amy W. Smith. This was the sixth of St. Onges s miniature books, and the first of his three miniature Thoreau books, and is oddly scarce despite the relatively large printing. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Bradbury, entry 2912 (p. 421). Welsh, A Bibliography of Miniature Books, p. 204, entry Adams, Raymond. THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THOREAU S A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. [Charlottesville, VA]: Bibliographical Society of America, Original brown printed wrappers. Offprint of the article that appeared in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 43 (1949), pp The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 119

120 Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 5, entry Allen, Francis H. THOREAU S EDITORS, HISTORY AND REMINISCENCE. Monroe, North Carolina: Nocalore Press, First edition. Original blue printed wrappers. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 7. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 8, entry Cameron, Kenneth W. THOREAU DISCOVERS EMERSON, A COLLEGE READING RECORD. New York: The New York Public Library, First edition. Original self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Based on Thoreau s reading at Harvard. An off-print from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library. Boswell & Crouch, p. 27, entry Houston, Walter S. AN INDEX TO THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THOREAU SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS. [Charlottesville: The Thoreau Society, 1953.] First edition, single sheet printed on both sides. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 8. Boswell & Crouch, p. 88, entry Emerson, Ralph W. MR EMERSON WRITES A LETTER ABOUT WALDEN. [Lunenburg, Vermont?] Printed by the Stinehour Press for the Thoreau Society and Friends of the Dartmouth Library, First edition. Original printed wrappers. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 120

121 Facsimile of the entire letter, and transcription. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Harding, Walter. A CENTENNIAL CHECK-LIST OF THE EDITIONS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU S WALDEN. Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, First edition. Original marbled wrappers, label. It is unclear whether this is one of the advance copies sent gratis to members of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, or if this is one of 250 bound copies sold by the press. Boswell & Crouch, p. 74, entry THE CONCORD FREEMAN; THOREAU ANNEX. Charlottesville: The Thoreau Society, First edition. A facsimile reprint of the original December 11, 1834 issue of the newspaper, The Concord Freeman. Boswell & Crouch, p. 87, entry Hough, Henry B. THOREAU OF WALDEN. New York: Simon & Schuster, First edition. Original quarter cloth, gilt, dust jacket Thoreau, Henry D. MR. THOREAU DECLINES AN INVITATION. Richmond, Virginia: The Attic Press, First edition. Original French-folded buff printed wrappers, uncut, stapled as issued. One of 135 copies printed. Prints the text of Thoreau s reply to an invitation to join the Association for the Advancement of Science and the questionnaire that he filled out for them. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 121

122 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 266). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 131, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. WILD APPLES. Worcester: Achilles J. St. Onge, First edition thus. Miniature book. Original tan morocco, gilt. One of 950 copies (not stated in the colophon). Designed by Bruce Rogers. Printed at the Marchbank Press. This essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly for November The essay is really a history of man within and without Nature, as traced through his history of cultivating orchards. Thoreau revised this and two other essays and sent them to the magazine s editor, James T. Fields, shortly before his death in May. This essay on apples was published just as apples were coming into season in New England. This essay was collected in The Maine Woods a couple of years later. St. Onge published miniature books from ; this was his fourteenth miniature, and it is one of the few miniatures he ever designed. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 44, entry A3.10. Bradbury, entry 2915, and pp (Achille J. St. Onge). Spielmann, p. 174, entry 483. Welsh, A Bibliography of Miniature Books, p. 204, entry Harding, Walter. THOREAU S LIBRARY. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, First edition. Quarter morocco, marbled boards, gilt. Copies of this booklet were issued unbound; the edition was small. This copy once belonged to Lyle Kendall and was bound up by Mac Donnell in A listing of all the books known to have been in Thoreau s library. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 11. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 284, col. 2. Boswell & Crouch, p. 74, entry Robinson, Kenneth A. THOREAU AND THE WILD APPETITE. Hanover: Westholm Publications, First edition. Original quarter cloth, decorated boards, label. One of 150 numbered and signed. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 122

123 287. Shanley, J. Lyndon. THE MAKING OF WALDEN. [Chicago:] University of Chicago Press [1957]. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Boswell & Crouch, p. 152, entry Thoreau, Henry D. CONSCIOUSNESS IN CONCORD, TEXT OF THOREAU S HITHERTO LOST JOURNAL. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, First edition, first printing. Original grey cloth, gilt, dust jacket. One of 375 special copies presented to Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, with presentation leaf bound in at front. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 266). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 133, entry A32.1. Boswell & Crouch, p. 121, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Washington Square: New York University Press, First edition, first printing. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Inscribed by Walter Harding (editor) to Edwin Way Teale in One of 2,000 copies printed. See Boswell & Crouch, pp , entries for Teale s articles and books on Thoreau; Boswell & Crouch, pp , entries for Harding s work. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 267). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 136, entry A33.1.a. Boswell & Crouch, p. 18, entry 219 and pp , entry Harding, Walter. A THOREAU HANDBOOK. [New York:] New York University Press, First edition. Original pale green cloth, dust jacket. See Boswell & Crouch, pp , entries for Harding s work. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 123

124 Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 285, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 75, entry Harding, Walter. TWO FORGOTTEN BITS OF THOREAUVIANA. Geneseo: The Thoreau Society [1959]. First edition. Single sheet folded to 4 pages. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 14. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Sherwin, J. Stephen & Reynolds, Richard C. A WORD INDEX TO WALDEN, WITH TEXTUAL NOTES. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, glassine dust jacket. Very scarce. Boswell & Crouch, p. 154, entry THOREAU S TRANSLATION OF SEVEN AGAINST THEBES. Hartford: The Emerson Society, First edition. Original plain blue wrappers, stapled as issued. Edited by Leo Max Kaiser. Facsimiles. One of a few hundred printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 267). Boswell & Crouch, p. 95, entry Alcott, Louisa M. A SPRIG OF ANDROMEDA, A LETTER FROM LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ON THE DEATH OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, First edition. Original green printed wrappers, in original mailing envelope. Facsimile of letter included. One of 1,250 copies printed. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 124

125 Not in Bibliography of American Literature (under Thoreau; the volume of BAL that included Alcott was published in 1955). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited Howe: not cited Harding, Walter, ed. THOREAU S MINNESOTA JOURNEY: TWO DOCUMENTS. Geneseo, New York: [Walter Harding] First edition. Original wrappers, stapled as issued. One of 700 copies printed. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 16. From the library of Thoreau scholar Ed Schofield. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 267). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 139, entry A FOR THE THOREAU CENTENNIAL: A VARIORUM. Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Joseph Ishill, The Oriole Press, Original wrap-around printed cover, taped as issued, enclosing five pamphlets about Thoreau, six leaflets and broadsides relating to Thoreau, and two announcements for other Oriole Press booklets. For the Thoreau Centennial wrap-around printed cover The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 125

126 Probably one of 125 such bundles; the pamphlets have limitations of copies. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Pierpont Morgan Library. A CENTENARY COMMEMORATION. New York: The Thistle Press [1962]. First edition. Original printed wrappers. Exhibit of Thoreau manuscripts, with facsimiles. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Thoreau, Henry D. SIC VITA! [New York:] Silverado Press, First edition. Original printed wrappers. One of 380 copies printed. Within this edition, there were 24 copies on Japan vellum and 24 copies on Whatman handmade paper. Bibliography of American Literature, entry B (vol. 8, p. 267). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 141, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. THE VARIORUM WALDEN. New York: Twayne Publishers [1962]. First edition. Original orange cloth, dust jacket Thoreau Society of America. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, , A CENTENARY CELEBRATION. New York: The Thistle Press, First edition. Original printed grey wrappers. Program of the activities held on May 5 6, 1962 at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York University, etc., with facsimile of four pages of Walden manuscript. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 126

127 301. Taylor, J. Golden, ed. THE WESTERN THOREAU CENTENARY: SELECTED PAPERS. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, January First edition. Original printed grey wrappers. Issued as Thoreau Society Bulletin 19, with label correcting this to Thoreau Society Booklet 19. Includes papers by Gladys Hosmer, Walter Harding, etc Harding, Walter. SOPHIA THOREAU S SCRAPBOOK. Geneseo, New York: Walter Harding, First edition. Original printed wrappers. Facsimile of the scrapbook assembled by Thoreau s sister. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 20. Boswell & Crouch, p. 79, entry Harding, Walter. THE THOREAU CENTENNIAL. [Albany:] State University Press of New York [1964]. First edition. Original green cloth, dust jacket. With sticker indicating this was distributed as Thoreau Society Booklet Number Thoreau, Henry D. COLLECTED POEMS. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, New and Revised Edition, first printing. Original brown cloth, gilt, dust jacket. An important major revision and expansion of the 1943 first edition; it contains a facsimile of the 1943 text, with new front matter, and thirteen added poems and corrections added at end. This was also the first variorum edition to be published for any American poet. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 267). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 128, entry A30.1.b. Boswell & Crouch, p. 18, entry Thoreau, Henry D. LOVE, AN ESSAY. Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Oriole Press [1964]. First separate edition. Original red printed wrappers, uncut. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 127

128 One of fifty copies printed. This is an extract from a letter to H. G. O. Blake. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 61, entry A Thoreau, Henry D. SOUNDINGS. Franklin, New Hampshire: The Hillside Press, First edition, one of 375 numbered copies. Original tan cloth, lettered in black, uncut. Selections from the journals, Walden, and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Bradbury, entry 2913 (p. 421). Welsh, A Bibliography of Miniature Books, p. 204, entry Harding, Walter. THE DAYS OF HENRY THOREAU, A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, First edition, first printing. Original maroon cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 285, col. 1. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, Appendix 2, p Boswell & Crouch, p. 77, entry Harding, Walter. HENRY THOREAU AND ELLEN SEWALL. Reprinted from The South Atlantic Quarterly Winter, Offprint, self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Boswell & Crouch, p. 76, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THOREAU S TURTLE NEST. Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, First edition. Original full green morocco, gilt, all edges gilt. One of 1,500 numbered copies. A selection from the journals, with preface by Walter Harding. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 128

129 Bradbury, entry 2914 (p. 421). Welsh: not cited Harding, Walter. THEO BROWN AND HENRY THOREAU. Rochester: Printed for the Thoreau Society by The Gaudeamus Press, First edition. Original plain blue wrappers. One of 1,050 copies printed. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 23. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Gárate, Justo. THOREAU IN THE SPANISH LANGUAGE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Geneseo, New York: Walter Harding, First edition. Original self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 24. Boswell & Crouch, p. 64, entry Glick, Wendell, ed. THE RECOGNITION OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press [1969]. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Boswell & Crouch, p. 66, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THOREAU: TWO FRAGMENTS FROM THE JOURNALS. Iowa City: Windhover Press [1969]. First edition. Original brown boards, gilt, uncut, boxed. One of 220 copies printed. Borst dates this volume 1968 (the copyright date) although it was not published until Spring Berger, et al, Printing and the Mind of Merker, p. 29. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 143, entry A36.1. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 129

130 314. Fenn, Mary G. THOREAU S EASTERBROOK COUNTRY. Geneseo, New York: The Thoreau Society First edition. Folding map. Map of the area north of the Concord River, showing the locations of various journal references. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 25. Boswell & Crouch, p. 58, entry Stowell, Robert F. A THOREAU GAZETTEER. Princeton: Princeton University Press, First edition. Original green quarter cloth and boards, gilt, dust jacket. This was also issued in wrappers Thoreau, Henry D. THE ANNOTATED WALDEN. New York: Clarkson N. Porter [1970]. First edition. Original cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Bibliography of American Bibliography, vol. 8, p. 280, entry One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THE ARTIST OF KOUROO, A SELECTION FROM WALDEN. [Harper Woods, Michigan:] Adagio Press, First edition thus. Single sheet of green cardstock folded to 4 pages. Issued by Leonard Bahr as number six in The Collected Ephemera of the Adagio Press series Thoreau, Henry D. HUCKLEBERRIES. [Iowa City:] The Windhover Press, University of Iowa, First edition. Original grey cloth, gilt, uncut. One of 330 copies printed. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 268). The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 130

131 319. Harding, Walter. THE THOREAU COLLECTOR S GUIDE TO BOOK PRICES. Geneseo, New York: Walter Harding, First edition. Original self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 26. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, First edition thus. Original green cloth, dust jacket. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 153, entry One Hundred Influential Books Printed Before 1900, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THE MAINE WOODS. Princeton: Princeton University Press, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Inscribed by the editor, Joe Moldenhauer, to Ann Bowden and William B. Todd. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 269). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 169, entry B7.II Fenn, Mary G. THOREAU S RIVERS. Geneseo: The Thoreau Society, First edition. Folding map depicting the rivers that appear in Thoreau journals, with citations indexed. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 27. Boswell & Crouch, p. 58, entry Szladits, Lola L. OTHER PEOPLE S MAIL. New York: New York Public Library [1973]. First edition. Original lavender printed wrappers with a library scene by Edward Gorey on front wrapper. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 131

132 An exhibit catalogue of sixteen letters written by famous authors, with full facsimiles. This exhibit includes a 5 page letter of March 11, 1842 from Thoreau to Emerson Thoreau, Henry D. REFORM PAPERS. Princeton: Princeton University Press, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 269). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 169, entry B7.III Howarth, William L. THE LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. [Columbus:] Ohio State University Press [1974]. First edition. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt, dust jacket. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 285, col. 2. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited. Boswell & Crouch, p. 89, entry Thoreau, Henry D. THE INDIANS OF THOREAU, SELECTIONS FROM THE INDIAN NOTEBOOKS. Albuquerque: Hummingbird Press, First edition. Original orange cloth, gilt, dust jacket. There is also a copy in the original wrappers in the Mac Donnell collection (no. 331). Bibliography of American Literature is unsure if copies were also issued in wrapper. This copy has the printed prices on the dust jacket neatly changed in ink. Cloth copies were raised from $9 to $14 and wrappered copies were raised from $3 to $5. Mac Donnell s copy in wrappers has printed prices of $4 and $10. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 269) Thoreau, Henry D. THE INDIANS OF THOREAU, SELECTIONS FROM THE INDIAN NOTEBOOKS. Albuquerque: Hummingbird Press, First edition. Original green printed wrappers. There is also a copy in the original cloth in this collection (no. 333). Bibliography of American Literature is unsure if copies were also issued in wrappers. This copy has both cloth ($10) and wrapper ($4) copies advertised for sale on the back wrapper. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 132

133 Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 269) AN EXHIBITION FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Library Rare Book Room [1975]. First edition. Original printed wrappers. An exhibit, almost an inventory, of materials in the collection of one of first collectors of Thoreau. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Thoreau, Henry D. EARLY ESSAYS AND MISCELLANIES. Princeton: Princeton University Press, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. The edition was 2,815 copies. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 269). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 153, entry A Moss, Marcia, ed. A CATALOG OF THOREAU S SURVEYS IN THE CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Geneseo: The Thoreau Society, First edition. Original green printed wrappers. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 28. Boswell & Crouch, p. 125, entry Hendrick, George. REMEMBRANCES OF CONCORD AND THE THOREAUS, LETTERS OF HORACE HOSMER TO DR. S. A. JONES. Urbana: University of Chicago Press [1977]. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Boswell & Crouch, p. 82, entry 989. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 133

134 332. Thorpe, James. THOREAU S WALDEN. San Marino: The Huntington Library [1977]. First edition. Original pictorial green wrappers. The manuscript and proof sheets of Walden are at the Huntington Library. Boswell & Crouch, p. 169, entry Woolf, Virginia. THOREAU. Kentfield, California: The Upstairs Press [1977]. First separate edition. Original tangerine wrappers, label, uncut. One of 100 numbered copies. This may be the best summary of Thoreau s life and thought ever written, and was first published in the Times Literary Supplement for June 12, Not in Borst, etc Cameron, Kenneth W. YOUNG REPORTER OF CONCORD. Hartford: Transcendental Books [1978]. First edition. Original plain wrappers, stapled as issued. Checklist, with extracts, of Frank Sanborn s letters, with an abundance of information on Thoreau. One of a few hundred printed. Boswell & Crouch: not cited Harding, Walter. A CATALOG OF THE THOREAU SOCIETY ARCHIVES IN THE CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Geneseo: The Thoreau Society, First edition. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Thoreau Society Booklet Number 29. Boswell & Crouch, p. 79, entry Oehlschlaeger, Fritz & George Hendrick. TOWARD THE MAKING OF THOREAU S MODERN REPUTATION. Urbana: University of Illinois Press [1979]. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 134

135 First edition. Original cloth, dust jacket. Prints 465 letters between Jones, Hosmer, Salt, Blake, and Ricketson Blanding, Thomas & Walter Harding. A THOREAU ICONOGRAPHY. Geneseo: The Thoreau Society, First edition, one of 1,400 copies. Original pale green printed wrappers. An excellent survey of all known contemporary images (photographs and drawings) of Thoreau. Thoreau Society Booklet Number Thoreau, Henry D. THE BEST USE AND THE BEST FORM OF BOOKS [San Francisco:] Designed by A. R. Tommasini [n.d., ca. 1980]. First edition of this extract from Walden. Single sheet of handmade paper folded to four pages, printed in red, black, and gold leaf by A. R. Tommy Tommasini. Thoreau s quote is followed by a quote by typographer Frederick W. Goudy. Tommasini, who is best remembered as the fine printer who designed and printed the original United Nations charter, published over twenty-five Christmas keepsakes, starting in In 1979 he published a checklist of the 25 keepsakes he d printed by that time which does not include this one, hence the possible date. Mac Donnell doesn t know when he issued his last keepsake. They were generally limited to copies. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography includes excerpts from Walden similar to this one by other printers, but overlooked this one Thoreau, Henry D. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, First edition thus. Original grey cloth, dust jacket. Critical edition, with extensive notes. Mac Donnell contributed a list of more than one hundred surviving copies of the first edition, with provenances. Bibliography of American Literature, entry (vol. 8, p. 269). Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography, p. 14, entry A1.21 and p. 169, entry B7. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 135

136 340. Boswell, Jeanetta & Sarah Crouch. HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND THE CRITICS, A CHECKLIST OF CRITICISM, Metuchen, N.J. & London: The Scarecrow Press, First edition. Original terra cotta cloth. The title is a misnomer since many works as early as the 1860s and 1870s are included. List of 2,150 books and articles about Thoreau, with index. Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited Hendrick, George. THE FRED HOSMER COPY OF A DUNSHEE AMBROTYPE OF THOREAU. Geneseo: The Thoreau Society, First edition. Original green printed wrappers. One of 1,400 copies. Thoreau Society Booklet Thoreau, Henry D. TO AFFECT THE QUALITY OF THE DAY, THAT IS THE HIGHEST OF ARTS. Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio Press, April Broadside, one of 188 numbered copies. Bahr, The Collected Ephemera of the Adagio Press, entry A Borst, Raymond R. HENRY DAVID THOREAU: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. With prospectus and letters from Borst laid in. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 8, p. 285, col Howarth, William L. THE BOOK OF CONCORD, THOREAU S LIFE AS A WRITER. New York: Viking [1982]. First edition. Original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 136

137 Bibliography of American Literature: not cited. Borst, Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography: not cited Teele, John W. THE MEETING HOUSE ON THE GREEN. Concord, MA: The First Parish in Concord, First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Contains numerous Thoreau references Johnson, Linck C. THOREAU S COMPLEX WEAVE, THE WRITINGS OF A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, WITH THE TEXT OF THE FIRST DRAFT. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society [1986]. First edition. Original green cloth, dust jacket Richardson, Robert D. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, A LIFE OF THE MIND. Berkeley: University of California Press [1986]. First edition. Original grey cloth, dust jacket. Superb intellectual biography of Thoreau Thoreau, Henry D. TRANSLATIONS. Princeton: Princeton University Press, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket Sattelmeyer, Robert. THOREAU S READING. Princeton: Princeton University Press [1988]. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket Thoreau, Henry D. CAPE COD. Princeton: Princeton University Press, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, dust jacket Thoreau, Henry D. THOREAU ON WRITING. Edited by Eva M. Burkett & Stewart, Joyce S. [Conway, Arkansas:] University of Central Arkansas Press [1989]. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 137

138 352. Thoreau Research Newsletter. Edited by Bradley P. Dean. Conner, Montana: Transpacific Communications, ]. First edition. Stapled as issued. Complete run. Quarterly newsletter edited by Bradley P. Dean and issued from January 1990-October It was created to serve, an in informal way, the needs of Thoreau studies, which of course means serving the needs of anyone contributing to or wanting to contribute to Thoreau studies Cameron, Kenneth W. HENRY THOREAU S READING, A SUPPLEMENT. Hartford: Transcendental Books [1991]. First edition. Original tan wrappers, label, stapled as issued. One of a few hundred printed Friends of the Harvard College Library. CALENDAR OF EVENTS. Fall, [Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1991.] Folding leaflet that includes a facsimile of the publishing contract between Ticknor and Thoreau for Walden Moldenhauer, Joseph. TEXTUAL INSTABILITY IN THE RIVERSIDE EDITION OF THOREAU. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Inscribed by Joseph Moldenhauer to Kevin Mac Donnell. Offprint from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 85, no. 4 (1991), pp Borst, Raymond R. THE THOREAU LOG, A DOCUMENTARY LIFE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU, New York: G. K. Hall & Co. [1992]. First edition. Original black cloth, dust jacket Scharnhorst, Gary. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COMMENT AND CRITICISM BEFORE New York & London: Garland, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Review copy with notice laid in. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 138

139 358. Sherwood, Mary P. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, HOW GREAT A SON OF CONCORD. Concord: Walden Forever Wild [1993]. First edition. Original wrappers, stapled as issued Thoreau, Henry D. FAITH IN A SEED. Edited by Bradley P. Dean. Washington, DC: Island Press, First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, in glassine jacket, green cloth box, gilt. One of 600 numbered copies Thoreau, Henry D. FAITH IN A SEED. Edited by Bradley P. Dean. Washington, DC: Island Press [1993]. First edition, trade issue. Original green cloth, gilt, in dust jacket THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Edited by Joel Myerson. [Cambridge & New York:] Cambridge University Press [1995]. First edition, first printing. Original black cloth, gilt Thoreau, Henry D. WILD FRUITS. Edited by Bradley P. Dean. New York & London: W. W. Norton [1999]. First edition. Original quarter cloth, gilt, dust jacket. As new, with leaflet and letter from editor, Bradley P. Dean, laid in. One of Thoreau s last manuscripts, assembled in this form for the first time. The edition was 20,000 copies A HISTORICAL GUIDE TO HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Edited by William E. Cain. [New York:] Oxford University Press, First edition. Original black cloth, gilt, without dust jacket, as issued Thoreau, Henry D. WALDEN A FULLY ANNOTATED EDITION. Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. New Haven and London: Yale University Press [2004]. First edition thus. Original maroon cloth, lettered in silver, dust jacket. Marginal notes and fully indexed. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 139

140 365. Wood, David F. AN OBSERVANT EYE, THE THOREAU COLLECTION AT THE CONCORD MUSEUM. Concord: Concord Museum [2006]. First edition. Original quarter cloth and color pictorial boards. A survey of the museum s 250 relics associated with Thoreau and his family, with photographs of half of them. Mac Donnell sold them the copy of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1862) that is pictured at page 39 (and credited) and discussed at pages The Grolier Club. OPTIMUM VIX SATIS, AN EXHIBITION TO CELEBRATE THE 150 TH BIRHDAY OF DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE. New York: The Grolier Club, First edition. Original wrappers, stapled as issued. Exhibition catalog of some of the rarest materials issues by the Merrymount Press in its fifty-six year history ( ). Includes descriptions of William Ellery Channing s Thoreau: the Poet-Naturalist (Mac Donnell items 71, 72, & ) and Thoreau s The Service (Mac Donnell items 173 & 174) The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 140

141 Cairn at Thoreau s house site, Walden Pond Herbert Gleason s Through the Year with Thoreau, Frontispiece The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods: Page 141

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