$504
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
A Fine Collection of American Literature and History
Auction: June 8, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition. 8vo. (vi), 328, 22, (1) pp. (ads, dated April, 1864). Publisher's dark green cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, stains on rear board; all edges trimmed; brown endpapers; foxing to prelims; staining in margin and fore-edge of rear leaves. Borst A4.1.a; BAL 20113
A handsome first edition of Thoreau's fourth book, the second one published after his death in 1862. Published on May 28, 1864 in an edition of 1,650 copies.