Item #5043 [Thoreau, Henry David- Very Fine First Edition] Excursions. Henry David Thoreau.
[Thoreau, Henry David- Very Fine First Edition] Excursions

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[Thoreau, Henry David- Very Fine First Edition] Excursions

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

First edition. 8vo. Original publishers dark green highly embossed covers and spine, with bold gilt impressed wreath design and lettering on spine, in the proposed earliest state with "Author of Walden," designation, as well gilt publisher at base, original brown endpapers. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait. Excursions was collected from various sources by Thoreau's sister, Sophia E. Thoreau, and published the year after Thoreau's death. The book includes a eulogy delivered at his funeral by Emerson, received with mixed reviews, depending on who critiqued it, and presented here as a preface, entitled "Biographical Sketch." After leaving Walden Pond, Thoreau became more of a naturalist, taking trips to Cape Cod and Canada and elsewhere using his experiences as material for articles published in Putnam's Monthly. Excursions was the earliest of five posthumous books bringing forth these experiences in book form. Very fine copy with the slightest of edge repair to spine top, but no other signs of wear or even rubbing anywhere on covers or spine, and both hinges in tact. Very small foxing to a few early leaves, otherwise very clean and tight internally. Housed in attractive quarter brown morocco folding case with superb marbled paper boards, gilt ruling and lettering on spine, raised bands.

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