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THOREAU, HENRY D[AVID]. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. 8vo, original brown cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, light wear to spine ends, minor staining to covers; quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. With the advertisement leaf for Walden at rear. BAL 20104.
Of the 1000 copies printed (at the author's own expense) 706 were eventually returned to the author, who succeeded in disposing of a few of them himself. In his journal entry for 28 October 1853, Thoreau wrote: "... For a year or two past my publisher, falsely so called, has been writing... to ask what disposition should be made of the copies of 'A Week...' still on hand... so I had them all sent to me here... 706 copies... They are something more subtantial than fame, as my back knows, which has borne them up two flights of stairs... I now have a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself..." In 1862 Ticknor and Fields bought the remaining copies and had the 450 sets of sheets bound up with a new title-page (constituting the second issue).
FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. With the advertisement leaf for Walden at rear. BAL 20104.
Of the 1000 copies printed (at the author's own expense) 706 were eventually returned to the author, who succeeded in disposing of a few of them himself. In his journal entry for 28 October 1853, Thoreau wrote: "... For a year or two past my publisher, falsely so called, has been writing... to ask what disposition should be made of the copies of 'A Week...' still on hand... so I had them all sent to me here... 706 copies... They are something more subtantial than fame, as my back knows, which has borne them up two flights of stairs... I now have a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself..." In 1862 Ticknor and Fields bought the remaining copies and had the 450 sets of sheets bound up with a new title-page (constituting the second issue).