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Thoreau, Henry D[avid]. ("from the Journal of"). WINTER. Edited by H. G. O. Blake. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. 14 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled.
First Edition, which consisted of 1550 copies published actually in late 1887. This was the third of Thoreau's "four seasons," following EARLY SPRING (1881) and SUMMER (1884); curiously, Blake published WINTER before AUTUMN (1892), breaking the seasons' natural progression.
This is a near-fine copy (a tiny bit of wear at the foot of the spine, rusted staples showing through at the gutter opposite the title page); the dark green cloth remains quite clean, and the binding gilt remains bright. Borst A10.1.a; Blanck 20129. With the bookplate of the noted collector, dealer and all-around bibliphile Arthur Swann, whose collection formed a major auction sale of 1960.
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