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.....
Hartford: Published by Cooke and Co. and Packard and Butler, 1830. First American edition. American Imprints 1185. ¶ A wide-ranging religious and philosophical work on the state of man, with reflections on the requirements for a civil society for succeeding generations. This work is apparently by James Douglas, fourth Baron.....
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.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1850. First edition, first issue. BAL 5219, second printing; Myerson A22.1.b, second printing, binding A. Both the first and second printings were issued in December, 1849. Emerson's essays on Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon and Goethe. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to "Mrs. Bancroft / with.....
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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.....
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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 Borst A6.1.a; BAL 20116, binding A. ¶ Unpublished letters and nine poems by Henry David Thoreau, edited by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson.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.....