[Rarebooks] FS: First Book Publication, 1866, of Thoreau's CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, influential on Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Charles Agvent]

THOREAU, Henry David. A YANKEE IN CANADA, WITH ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM 
PAPERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. First Edition. Bound in modern 
half dark green morocco leather and marbled boards with matching morocco 
corners with new endpapers. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst 
A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Edited by Sophia Thoreau. 
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. (#019246)        $900

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