[Rarebooks] FS: Thoreau's WORKS with an ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT about the changing Fall colors at Walden Pond

[Charles Agvent]

THOREAU, Henry David. THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU with a leaf of 
manuscript mentioning Walden Pond. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 
1906. Manuscript Edition. Large octavo (6" x 8-3/4"), 20 volumes bound 
by Stikeman and Co. in 3/4 brown morocco leather with gilt-lettered and 
decorated spines. Illustrated with 3 portraits and 101 gravures after 
photographs by Herbert Gleason. BAL 20145: copy #396 of 600 numbered 
sets SIGNED by the publisher with an inlaid leaf of Thoreau's original 
holograph manuscript written on both sides of the sheet regarding the 
Fall coloring of trees. The manuscript in this copy is from Thoreau's 
important essay "Autumnal Tints," perhaps the best essay written by 
anyone on the subject of the color of the changing fall leaves. In part: 
"Notwithstanding that the red maple is the most intense scarlet of any 
of our trees, the sugar maple has been the most celebrated, and Michaux, 
in his Sylva, does not speak of the autumnal color of the former.... 
Walden's hilly shore too is now most beautifully painted chiefly, with 
small trees of this species which extend their red banners over the 
water, and here and there on one side slender young black birches rise a 
clear pale yellow quite distinct amid the evergreens and other trees on 
the steep shore." Much more. Thoreau manuscript material is increasingly 
scarce and more expensive to obtain, nearly always being found as it is 
here, bound into the Manuscript Edition. Partial separation along fold 
on the manuscript page. One volume slightly chipped along spine. Near Fine.
This edition marks the first printing of Thoreau's entire Journal. 
(#017407)        $18,500.00

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