First Edition. Modern 3/4 leather binding, spine label, marbled boards. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by 'S. E. Thoreau', [Sophia Elizabeth], at front endpaper. Sophia's autograph is uncommonly rare. She did much of the editing of her brother's posthumous works and was a close companion and confidante of Henry's whilst he was alive. She belonged to Concords anti-slavery society, designed the frontis illustration to Walden, ran the family business and protected Henry's legacy after his death. This copy nicely rebound, staining to lower quarter of early and later pages, some nicking to front endpaper. Date: 1865. Ticknor and Fields [US]

[publisher: Ticknor and Fields, Boston] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Posthumous collection of Thoreau's letters to family and friends, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who edited this work. Also includes nine poems. BAL 20116, binding variant A, presumed to be the first one. Original green HC (pebbled) cloth. A good, strong, and still attractive copy with endpapers cracking at hinges though hinges still tight, cloth at spine ends apparently strengthened at some point but now chipped away; few marginal chips to text, and gilt on spine just a little dulled.
[Middletown, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1865]
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