[Rarebooks] FS: Thoreau MANUSCRIPT from CAPE COD in Beautifully Bound Set of his Works

[Charles Agvent]

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, the first 
volume in publisher's 3/4 green morocco leather with gilt-lettered and 
decorated spine, the remaining 19 volumes in 3/4 green morocco leather 
with different gilt-lettered and decorated spines. Each volume 
illustrated with a frontispiece in two states, one hand-colored, as well 
as additional gravures after photographs by Herbert Gleason. The first 
volume is copy #119 of 600 numbered sets SIGNED by the publisher; the 
remaining 19 volumes are from set 561. The first volume with an inlaid 
leaf of Thoreau's original holograph manuscript written on both sides of 
the sheet. The two-page manuscript fragment, detached and laid in 
loosely, comprises 55 lines, from Chapter 2 of CAPE COD, "Stage-coach 
Views" (first published in June of 1855 in PUTNAM'S MONTHLY, Vol. V, No. 
xxx, pages 637–640), in altered form with extensive pencil annotations 
and corrections. In part: "For the first half of the Cape large blocks 
of stone are found, here and there, mixed with the sand, but for the 
last thirty miles 'it is rare to meet with boulders or even gravel.' 
Hitchcock conjectures that the ocean has in course of time eaten out 
Boston Harbor and other bays in the mainland, and that the minute 
fragments have been deposited by currents at a distance from the shore, 
and formed this sand bank which we call Cape Cod. That is Hitchcock's 
account of it. For the most part above the sand, if the surface is 
subjected to chemical or even in some places to agricultural tests, 
there is found to be a thin layer of soil gradually diminishing from 
Barnstable to Truro, where it ceases; but there are many holes and rents 
in this weather-beaten garment not likely to be stitched in time, which 
reveal the naked flesh of the Cape, and its extremity is completely 
bare." Thoreau manuscript material is increasingly scarce and more 
expensive to obtain, nearly always found as it is here, bound into the 
Manuscript Edition. Manuscript leaf detached and laid in loosely. Spines 
of 19 volumes evenly sunned to a light tan; very minor wear. Near Fine.
BAL 20145: This edition marks the first printing of Thoreau's entire 
Journal. (#021317)        $15,000

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