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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.
Two titles:
1. A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866.

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.

Two titles:
1. A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866.
8vo. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles within wreath decoration on spine, brown endpapers. Slightly rubbed at extremities, leaf f8 (sectional title for "Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers") supplied from another copy, stains from pressed flower to pp 94 and 97. FIRST EDITION. BAL 20117.
2. The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864.
8vo. 24 pp advertisements dated April 1864. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind. gilt titles within wreath on spine, brown endpapers. Spine sunned, rubbed, scattered spotting. FIRST EDITION. BAL 20113.

FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION OF "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE." Thoreau's most famous essay, as well as his "Life Without Principle," appears here for the first time in book form in A Yankee in Canada.

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