Boston: James Munroe, 1858. First edition. BAL 3065. An introspective exploration of man and nature in an anonymously published free-verse poem by William Ellery Channing (1817-1901). Channing was a close friend of Henry David Thoreau. He assisted him in the construction of the legendary cabin at Walden Pond and later.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856. First edition. Myerson A24.1.a; BAL 5226. Emerson’s impressions of England, based on his trips there in 1833 and 1847, with interesting chapters on contemporary English literature, the aristocracy, the Times newspaper, Stonehenge, etc. From the library of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, with the Blairhame bookplate on.....
![Book ID: 28114 "Thoughts on the Religion of the Middle Ages" [in] The Christian...](/pictures/thumb/28114.jpg?v=1579290187)
Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard [&] Joseph T. Buckingham, 1813-1818 [vols 1-6]; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1819-1823 [vols 1-5, New Series]. First edition, all published. Myerson E1; see Frank Luther Mott "The Christian Disciple and the Christian Examiner" in The New England Quarterly, April 1928; BAL does not generally.....
![Book ID: 20720 Letters to Various Persons. [Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson.]....](/pictures/thumb/20720.jpg?v=1607366943)
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Borst A6.1.a; BAL 20116, binding A. ¶ Unpublished letters and nine poems by Henry David Thoreau, edited by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888. First edition. The scarce collected poems by the Concord minister and author David Atwood Wasson (1823-1887), one of the most highly regarded of the Transcendentalist writers, whose poems had previously only appeared in periodicals. This posthumous collection - Wasson's first and only book - was.....