[Rarebooks] FS: PERTAINING TO THOREAU, 1901, price reduced
Charles Agvent
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Sun Jun 30 17:55:42 EDT 2019
Price reduced to $160 NET
(THOREAU, Henry David) [Jones, Samuel Arthur] editor. PERTAINING TO
THOREAU. Detroit: Edwin B. Hill, 1901. First Edition. 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 original prospectus, not present here. A collection of ten
essays and reviews, some of the earliest appreciations or criticisms of
Thoreau. Includes George Ripley's and James Russell Lowell's reviews of
Thoreau's first book, Charles Frederick Briggs's review of WALDEN, as
well as a piece by Amos Bronson Alcott and Henry Williams's memories of
the Harvard Class of 1837, where he was a classmate of Thoreau's. Owner
name of A. W. Adair dated May 1901 on the front blank. Light wear. Near
Fine.
The editor was Thoreau's first bibliographer. Publisher Edwin Hill was
one of the outstanding pioneers in the spreading of Thoreau's fame. He
set the type of this book by hand, a task that took nearly two years, as
he was also working as a full-time journalist during the process, and
from which he suffered a breakdown that led to tuberculosis.
(#015692) $200.00
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