[Rarebooks] FS: Publisher's Copy of Thoreau's WRITINGS with MANUSCRIPT Page from "Cape Cod, " price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $14,000

THOREAU, Henry David. THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU [WORKS] with a 
leaf of manuscript. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. 
Manuscript Edition. Large octavo (6" x 8-3/4"), 20 volumes bound in 
20th-century red crushed levant morocco leather, spines in 6 
compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest with gilt 
acorn tools, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 3 portraits and 101 
gravures after photographs by Herbert Gleason. BAL 20145. Of 600 
numbered sets SIGNED by the publisher, this set is not numbered but 
rather marked "Publisher's Copy" with an inlaid leaf of Thoreau's 
original holograph manuscript from CAPE COD, unsigned and written on 
both sides of the sheet containing 29-lines of text, with corrections 
and emendations in pencil, some 350-words in Thoreau's hand. The 
passage--which differs from the published version--is from Chapter Six 
("The Beach Again"). It begins, "there was one vessel, a bark, standing 
down parallel with the coast, which suddenly furled her sails and came 
to anchor.... Two men came running from the bank, where no human beings 
had appeared before, as if they had come out of the sand in order to 
save it before the next wave took it...." 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. 
Small tape repair at the center crease of the manuscript. Fine with a 
handsome appearance on the shelf.
This edition marks the first printing of Thoreau's entire Journal. 
(#017850)        $19,000.00

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