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Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 470 pp. Hardcover, bound in green cloth. The edges rubbed with loss at the spine ends and corners; color mottled. Text unmarked.
Published by Cambridge at the Riverside Press, 1894
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Large Paper Edition. 11 volume set. Bound in publishers cream cloth over grey boards. Tan spine labels. 23 x 15.5 cm. Set number 98 of 150 copies printed. Although the first 10 volumes describe the work as "in ten volumes" the 11th volume was printed and is included in this listing although the 11th volume is not specifically attributed as such. Previous owner's bookplate inside front fixed endpaper, and his name, dated, written in pen on front free endpaper of each volume. Some toning to the very edges of the boards. Spotting to the spine and rubbing to the center of the spine labels on each volume. Volume I: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Frontispiece portrait. Volume II: Walden or, Life in the Woods. Volume III: The Maine Woods. Volume IV: Cape Cod. Volume V: Early Spring in Massachusetts. Frontispiece portrait. Edited by H. G. O. Blake. Volume VI: Summer.Volume VII: Autumn Volume VIII: Winter. Smudge mark on title and opposite title page. Volume IX: Excursions. Volume X: Miscellanies. Frontispiece portrait. Toning in a pattern on the front cover. Volume XI [not labeled as such]: Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau. Frontispiece portrait.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881), Summer (1884), Winter (1888) and Autumn (1892),, 1881
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound in the original publisher's dark green finely woven cloth, beveled boards, with gilt lettered facsimile signatures of Thoreau on the front boards, gilt lettering on spine. Dark black endpapers. Top edges gilded. First Edition, first printings of all of Thoreau's "Season" books from his Journals. All are in very good plus condition. The hinges are tight and the books are clean and virtually unread. There is a touch of wear to the edges of the spines and little rubbing and a touch of wrinkling at the top of one or two spines; overall, they are in collector's condition, especially with such splendid presentations by the editor. The recipient, Mrs. King has signed her name, Sarah L. King, and date, Feb. 1882 and glued a colorful section of a card wishing "Happy New Year!" to the second front endpaper of "Early Spring." The volumes come with a letter of provenance and were published in small print runs; the complete set is rather scarce, especially with three of the books signed by the editor. According to BAL these four printings consisted of only 1018, 1260, 1550 and 1020 copies. A rare opportunity for the Thoreau collector. While Thoreau published only two books during his lifetime, after his death, his friend Harrison Blake edited and published sections of his journal as Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881), Summer (1884), Winter (1888) and Autumn (1892), issued by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Blake's arrangements of the selections, Blake explained, "In reading the Journal for my own satisfaction, I had sometimes been wont to attend each day to what was written on the same day of the month in some other year. the phenomena which Thoreau noticed, so to be brought nearer to the writer by observing the same sights, sounds and have my love of nature quickened by him." All 4 volumes are first editions with the correct dates on the title and copyright pages. Signed by Author(s).