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Henry David Thoreau. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.... (Total: 20 )
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Henry David Thoreau. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.20 volumes, 8vo. With 101 full page illustrations from photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, 3 portraits of Thoreau, and 1 map of Conrad and environs drawn by Gleason marking locations noted by Thoreau. Publisher's brown buckram, printed paper spine labels, uncut and unopened.
MANUSCRIPT EDITION. Number 282 of 600 copies, signed by the published on the limitation page in volume I, WITH A FULL MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN THOREAU'S HAND tipped-in Vol. I.
The manuscript leaf contains a portion of Thoreau's essay on "Walking." The manuscript leaf begins: "We have heard of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power; and the like. Methinks there is an equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance..." The leaf concludes: "A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful but beautiful while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless!"
Condition: Cloth sunned and somewhat faded; spines with some minor staining; some light edgewear; a few scuffs. Occasional minor finger-soiling to text.
References: Borst B3, I-XX.
Provenance: Purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop Inc., Boston, in 1965. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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