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Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013868102ISBN 13: 9781013868108
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866
Anbieter: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, USA
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Hardcover. First Edition. Bound in modern half dark green morocco leather and marbled boards with matching morocco corners with new endpapers. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Edited by Sophia Thoreau. Distinguished for its containing, in addition to the title piece, the first book publication of "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle," Thoreau's two most famous essays, as well as all of his major political writings. "Civil Disobedience" influenced, among others, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. who cited it as his first intellectual contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Internally Fine in a Fine, attractive binding.
Verlag: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
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[iv], 286 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First edition. First edition. [iv], 286 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Includes the first appearance in a volume of Thoreau's writings of "Civil Disodedience," which, "through its impact on Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., the anti-Nazi movement in Europe in the 1940s, and anti-Vietnam War protesters in the 1970s, has had a wider political influence than any other American literary document" (ANB). BAL 20117; Borst A 7.1.a; Allen, 22-23; Downs, Books That Changed America 8 Bound in publisher's zigzag textured green cloth. Ex-libris of J.A. Perkins Jr., Montreal. Front inner hinge tender, light rubbing to spine ends. Very good.
Verlag: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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First edition. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt, and blind, extremities slightly rubbed, extreme corner of front endpaper chipped, but a very good bright copy, in the "A" binding described by BAL, which is more ornate than the other two bindings. A rare Thoreau family copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Charles Lowell / with the love / of S. E. Thoreau". Charles Lowell of Bangor, Maine, was a cousin by marriage of Henry & Sophia. Aunt Nancy Thoreau married Caleb Callender Billings in 1810. Their first child, Mary Ann Thoreau Billings (1810-1888), married Charles Lowell (1807-1895), a Bangor merchant, in 1834. Following the wishes of her older brother, Sophia Elizabeth Thoreau edited a number of his papers both with him (as he lay dying) and after his death. That she was the sole editor of the collection of papers in Yankee has been established by recent scholarship. (See Kathy Fedorko, "â Henry's Brilliant Sister': The Pivotal Role of Sophia Thoreau in Her Brother's Posthumous Publications," The New England Quarterly, June 2016, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 222-256). "Thoreau agreed to educator Elizabeth Peabody's request to publish the lecture he had written on his refusal to pay the poll tax in her new periodical, Aesthetic Papers, where it appeared in 1849 under the title "Resistance to Civil Government." However, the periodical was a failure, and Thoreau's essay went virtually unnoticed. It was not until long after the essay's posthumous republication in 1866 under the title "Civil Disobedience" that it was acclaimed as a classic manifesto, advocating a citizen's responsibility to follow his or her conscience when it differs from the laws of the state."Civil Disobedience," through its impact on Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., the anti-Nazi movement in Europe in the 1940s, and anti-Vietnam War protesters in the 1970s, has had a wider political influence than any other American literary document. In Walden Thoreau wrote, "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book." Walden and "Civil Disobedience" have been just such works", American National Biography. This work contains, besides the the travel narrative which is the title work, the first book publication of Thoreau's two most famous essays "Civil Disobedience", and "Life Without Principle", all of his major political writings, and one work, "Prayers" which is actually by Ralph Waldo Emerson. From the library of William E. Stockhausen, sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974. BAL 20117; Borst A7.1.a.
Verlag: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, [i-iv], 1-286 pages. In Fair condition. Bound in wavy-patterned green cloth with gilt text on spine. Boards have moderate rubbing to corners, tearing to spine edges, and moderate shelf wear. Binding is loose with cocking to spine. Text block has heavy splitting to interior hinges, leaves between front pastedown and title page missing, color transfer from front pastedown to title page, mild foxing to most pages, and light damp staining on pages 121 to 265. Shelved Room A. BAL 20117 Binding A. 1370605. Special Collections.