[Rarebooks] FS: Thoreau's CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE and A PLEA FOR CAPT. JOHN BROWN, both 1/50 copies attractively bound and printed

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recently posted internet catalog--American Transcendentalists: 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau--consisting of 55 items, 
mostly new arrivals and with many autographed pieces. A direct link to 
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THOREAU, Henry David. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. 
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. Darkening at the head and heel of gutters from binder's 
glue with slight effect on a few pages. Just about Fine.         $350.00

THOREAU, Henry David. A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN. Boston: David R. 
Godine, 1969. 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, an early 
example from this press. Fine.         $350.00

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