LETTERS TO VARIOUS PERSONS - DELANO FAMILY COPY

by Henry D. Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letters, preface

$1,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition. Item #8075 First Printing, one of 2,100 copies. Octavo 18.75cm ; publisher's dark green dotted cloth Blanck's binding A / Borst's binding 2, with spine reading Author of Excursions and A Week on Concord River titled in gilt on spine, with holly wreaths embossed within an elaborate blind-ruled border on covers; brown endpapers;

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