Letters to Various Persons

by Henry David Thoreau

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First edition

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. BAL binding A with Author of Excursions and a Week on the Concord River on spine, imprint of Ticknor & Co. Borst A.6.1.a variant 4. viii , 229 pp. Original purple cloth with zigzag pattern, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. Very Good with cloth at head and tail worn away, toning to spine, small stain to back board. The uncommon preferred

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