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Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. Hardcover. Copy #XIV of only 50 numbered copies bound by hand in morocco-backed marbled boards of a total edition of 650 printed in red and black by The Gehenna Press.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. Hardcover. Copy #XIV of only 50 numbered copies bound by hand in morocco-backed marbled boards of a total edition of 650 printed in red and black by The Gehenna Press.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue-green Z cloth. Portrait frontispiece, the first book to include a portrait of Thoreau. BAL 20111: 1558 copies printed. Borst A3.1.a states that 1558 copies were printed but only 1500 were bound. Ten pieces are contained within, including a Biographical Sketch.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Original purple Z cloth. BAL 20113: 1650 copies printed though Borst A4.1.a states that 1450 copies were printed. True first printing with list of Thoreau's books priced. Catalogue dated April 1864 with last leaf advertising "The Thirteenth Volume." About THE MAINE WOODS.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Original plum TR cloth. BAL 20113: 1650 copies printed though Borst A4.1.a states that 1450 copies were printed. True first printing with list of Thoreau's books priced. No catalogue bound into this copy. From the library of John Shepard Keyes with his.....
Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. Hardcover. First published in 1860 in James Redpath's ECHOES OF HARPER'S FERRY, this is the first separate book printing of the first defense of John Brown. Copy #XXIX of only 50 numbered copies bound by hand in morocco-backed boards of a total edition of 750.....
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. Rudolph Ruzicka. Hardcover. Decorated boards. One of 1000 copies illustrated by Rudolph Ruzicka with an introduction by Raymond Adams.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Edward Steichen. Hardcover. Quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in black linen and blue-green paste paper-covered boards. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Steichen. Designed by D. B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. Copy #347 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Edward Steichen. Hardcover. Quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in black linen and blue-green paste paper-covered boards. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Steichen. Designed by D. B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon.....
[Lunenburg]: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Raymond Holden. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/2" x 9-7/8") bound in green buckram and green marbled paper; 352 pages. Introduction by Charles R. Anderson. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Copy #887 of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with drawings by Raymond Holden and SIGNED by the artist on.....
[Lunenburg]: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Raymond Holden. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/2" x 9-7/8") bound in green buckram and green marbled paper; 352 pages. Introduction by Charles R. Anderson. Printed at the Stinehour Press. One of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with drawings by Raymond Holden and SIGNED by the artist on the.....
[Lunenburg]: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Raymond Holden. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/2" x 9-7/8") bound in green buckram and green marbled paper; 352 pages. Introduction by Charles R. Anderson. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Copy #1657 of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with drawings by Raymond Holden and SIGNED by the artist on.....
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1893). Walden Edition. Hardcover. Ten 5" x 7-3/4" volumes bound in publisher's 3/4 green morocco leather and marbled boards with heavy gilt spine decoration and lettering, top edges gilt. Illustrated with portraits of Thoreau and photogravures by Herbert Gleason of scenes and objects.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Manuscript Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (6" x 8-3/4"), 20 volumes, the first volume in publisher's 3/4 green morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spine, the remaining 19 volumes in 3/4 green morocco leather with different gilt-lettered and decorated spines. Each volume illustrated with a......
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in modern half dark green morocco leather and marbled boards with matching morocco corners with new endpapers. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Edited by Sophia Thoreau. Distinguished for its containing, in addition to the.....
Detroit: Edwin B. Hill, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; xviii, 171 pages. Although there is no indication of such, this title was apparently limited to only 225 copies according to an issue of The Thoreau Society Bulletin dated July 1949 and the.....
Pittsburgh: University of Pitt. 1982. Plates & facsimiles. First Edition. Cloth. Comprehensive and the only Thoreau bibliography to be based on the principles of modern textual scholarship with complete descriptions of the primary editions and a list of all subsequent editions. Illustrated with plates and facsimiles. With information on Thoreau.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Joseph Low. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in full linen of three colors with silver and gold lettering on the cover and spine and a silver frog on the cover. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Copy #142 of 1500 with color and B&W.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Joseph Low. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in full linen of three colors with silver and gold lettering on the cover and spine and a silver frog on the cover. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Copy #887 of 1500 with color and B&W.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Joseph Low. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in full linen of three colors with silver and gold lettering on the cover and spine and a silver frog on the cover. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Copy #39 of 1500 with color and B&W.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Joseph Low. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in full linen of three colors with silver and gold lettering on the cover and spine and a silver frog on the cover. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Copy #1219 of 1500 with color and B&W.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Noel Sickles. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 11") bound in quarter tan buckram over patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. Printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Copy #887 of 1500 with 13 full-page color plates and a......
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Fritz Kredel. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (9-1/4" x 12-1/2") bound in gilt-stamped red half morocco leather with color cloth sides with a lithographed design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Copy #1188 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with water-colors by Fritz Kredel adapted from the.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Fritz Kredel. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (9-1/4" x 12-1/2") bound in gilt-stamped red half morocco leather with color cloth sides with a lithographed design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Illustrated with water-colors by Fritz Kredel adapted from the original illustrations by Dr. Hoffman and.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Fritz Kredel. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (9-1/4" x 12-1/2") bound in gilt-stamped red half morocco leather with color cloth sides with a lithographed design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Copy #930 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with water-colors by Fritz Kredel adapted from the.....
New York/London: John Lane, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Truly funny anthology of mock literary trials--Henry James vs. Mary Baker Eddy: "Infringement of Patent," for example--often with Mark Twain presiding as judge. Other "characters" include Bliss Carman, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oliver Herford, Booth Tarkington, Richard Harding Davis, etc......