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Item Details
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| Author: |
Thoreau, Henry D[avid] |
| Title: |
A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers |
| Place: |
Boston |
| Publisher: |
Ticknor and Fields |
| Date: |
1866 |
| Item # : |
184459 |
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| Sale Number |
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364 |
| Lot Number |
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284 |
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| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
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09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 920 |
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| Description: |
| [4], 286 pp. 7x4½, original blind-stamped green cloth, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom green morocco-backed slipcase. First Edition, First Issue. |
| The first book appearance of Thoreau's classic and important "Essay on Civil Disobedience." BAL binding state 'A' with blind-stamped wreath vignette on front and rear covers and spine imprint stamped from serifed types. Bookplate of J. Roy W. Barrette. BAL 20117. |
| Condition: |
| Slipcase spine faded; spine ends frayed, front joint split approximately one-third of the length, front hinge cracked; else very good. |
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