[Rarebooks] FS: Beautiful Copy of Thoreau's First Book, Formerly in His Library

[Charles Agvent]

THOREAU, Henry David. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. 
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1862. First Edition. Original green Z cloth, 
Binding D, no priority. BAL 20104 notes this binding only in green P 
cloth. Borst A1.1.a notes only copies in brown or purple cloth. The 
famous Second Issue of Thoreau's first book and, other than WALDEN, the 
only of his books published in his lifetime. There were 1000 sets of 
sheets printed at the author's expense in 1849. The book did not sell 
well, and in 1853 the 706 remaining copies (256 bound copies and 450 in 
sheets) were shipped back to Thoreau, prompting the author to remark, "I 
have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of 
which I wrote myself." Over the years Thoreau occasionally sold or gave 
away copies. Ticknor & Fields purchased the remaining 145 bound copies 
and 450 unbound copies from Thoreau in 1862, publishing the book with a 
cancel title page and leaving the final leaf advertising the upcoming 
publication of WALDEN intact. As has often been noted, whoever owns a 
copy of this issue owns a copy once in Thoreau's library. This issue is 
scarcer than the First Issue of 1849, and with its personal association 
with Thoreau, it is quite desirable. A large, skimmed spot at the center 
of the front blank with slight effect on the title page is the only 
defect to this otherwise gorgeous copy. A spectacular example of this 
scarce book. (#015685)        $7,500

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