[Rarebooks] FS: First Printing of Thoreau's CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, 1866

[Charles Agvent]

On this day in 1893 Mohandas K. Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in 
South Africa, refused to comply with racial segregation rules on a South 
African train and was forcibly ejected, his fist act of civil 
disobedience.  We offer here the first book publication of Thoreau's 
famous essay "Civil Disobedience."

THOREAU, Henry David. A YANKEE IN CANADA, WITH ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM 
PAPERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. First Edition. Bound in 
contemporary half dark green morocco leather and marbled boards with 
matching morocco corners. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst 
A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Distinguished for its containing, in 
addition to the title piece, the first book publication of "Civil 
Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle," Thoreau's two most famous 
essays, as well as all of his major political writings. "Civil 
Disobedience" influenced, among others, Gandhi and Martin Luther King 
Jr. who cited it as his first intellectual contact with the theory of 
nonviolent resistance. Internally Fine in a Fine, attractive binding. 
(#015684) $900.00

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