[Rarebooks] Thoreau and Melville

[Mark Stirling]

For Sale from Up-Country Letters, South Lake Tahoe, California:

 

(American Periodical)  Putnam's Magazine, Volumes I-4.  January, 1853 to December, 1854. Twenty Four monthly issues bound without the wrappers in four volumes, with a general title and table of contents in each. Green leather over paper-covered boards, raised bands, gilt-lettered. Some rubbing, some flaking of paper at edges. Contributors are anonymous but we have Henry David Thoreau's Excursion to Canada  serialized in four parts, complete (Parkman Dexter Howe Library, Part 2, 1984) and Herman Melville's Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street in two parts, complete; his The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles in three parts, complete; and The Lightning Rod Man (PDH Library, Part 6, 1989). There is light foxing in places but the above named are free from it. A Very Good set.   $450

 

 

Up-Country Letters is a rare bookselling concern operated by Mark Stirling.  We specialize in Nineteenth Century American and English Literature with an emphasis on Transcendentalism;   Emerson, Thoreau, and their friends and associates.  Most of our inventory may be seen on-line at www.abebooks.com.

   Any item may be returned within 10 days if found to be unsatisfactory.  Postage is extra and items will be shipped at cost.  Payment may be made by most of the major credit cards and personal checks are welcome.

 
Up-Country Letters,   P.O. Box 550367,  South Lake Tahoe, California  96155
(530) 577-2089                 bookworm at tahoesnow.com  
 

                                          
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