[Rarebooks] FS: Finely Bound WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU with MANUSCRIPT page from CAPE COD
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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) $17,500
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