THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862). The Writings . Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.
THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862). The Writings . Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. 20 volumes, 8 o (144 x 213 mm). Frontispieces and photogravure plates by Herbert W. Gleason, 2-PAGE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY THOREAU (see below). 20th-century red crushed levant morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest with gilt acorn tools, edges gilt. LIMITED EDITION , one of 600 sets labeled "Publisher's Copy" of the Manuscript Edition signed by the publisher. [ Bound into volume one :] THOREAU. Autograph manuscript, a 2-page leaf from the manuscript of Cape Cod , unsigned, n.d. 2 pages, 4to, inlaid, tipped into vol.1 (tape repair at center crease). 29-lines of text, with corrections and emendations in pencil; some 350-words in Thoreau's hand. This 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..."
THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862). The Writings . Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.
THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862). The Writings . Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. 20 volumes, 8 o (144 x 213 mm). Frontispieces and photogravure plates by Herbert W. Gleason, 2-PAGE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY THOREAU (see below). 20th-century red crushed levant morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest with gilt acorn tools, edges gilt. LIMITED EDITION , one of 600 sets labeled "Publisher's Copy" of the Manuscript Edition signed by the publisher. [ Bound into volume one :] THOREAU. Autograph manuscript, a 2-page leaf from the manuscript of Cape Cod , unsigned, n.d. 2 pages, 4to, inlaid, tipped into vol.1 (tape repair at center crease). 29-lines of text, with corrections and emendations in pencil; some 350-words in Thoreau's hand. This 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..."
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