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Autograph Letter, Signed, to Charles Warren Stoddard.

By: [Stoddard, Charles Warren] Wm. R. William Rounseville Alger.

Price: $90.00

Seller ID: [stoddard,charleswarren]wm.r.williamrounsevillealg

Dateline Winston House, Mt. Kearsarge, N.H., (no date), where Alger is on vacation. Responding to Stoddard's letter asking Alger to help him get some lecturing dates on the New England lecture circuit. "I have no doubt such a lecture as you describe would be interesting and instructive, yet we have here in the Middle and Eastern states so many lectures, such a multitude of popular public entertainments of all sorts...but if you have the pluck and passion to try it, why then all I can say is God speed you and grant you a success which I cannot soberly anticipate for you." He finishes wi...
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Articles of Agreement.

By: [Sutro Tunnel]

Price: $175.00

Seller ID: [sutrotunnel]175broadside,1866,201/2x28inches.ma

Broadside, 1866, 20 1/2 x 28 inches. "Made and entered into this (fill in the date) A.D. one thousand and sixty-six, by and between William M. Stewart, D.E. Avery, Louis Janin, Jr., H.K. Mitchell, and A. Sutro Trustees for the Sutro Tunnel Company, parties of the first part, and the (fill in the blank) Mining Company, a corporation doing business in the County of Storey, State of Nevada, party of the second part." There are four "Whereas"-es, 18 "Articles", and four places for mine company officers to sign, with room for a Notary to officially witness the signatures. &#...
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The Independent. Four issues, 1879.

By: [Sutro, Adolph. Newspaper]

Price: $110.00

Seller ID: [sutro,adolph.newspaper]110sutro,nevada:adolphsutr

Sutro, Nevada: Adolph Sutro, publisher, 1879. Folio newspaper, 4pp., complete, four issues of this weekly, delivered every Monday - April 21, 18, May 5, and December 15, 1879. Local and national news, politics, mining, human interest, and of course lots of ads. When the Sutro backed "Daily Independent" of Virginia City folded after just 6 months, he "removed the plant to the town of Sutro in Lyon County" and used it to publish the "The Independent", which ran from July, 1875 to November, 1880, with a brief suspension from March 1 to April 21, 1879, when it returned as a...
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The Daily Independent-Supplement, October 31st, 1874.

By: [Sutro, Adolph. Newspaper]

Price: $110.00

Seller ID: [sutro,adolph.newspaper]110virginiacity,nevada:t

Virginia City, Nevada: The Independent Publishing Co., 1874. Elephant folio newspaper, 4pp., complete. Entirely devoted to Adolph Sutro's lecture, "Mines and Mining", illustrated with more than 30 engravings, "Delivered at Piper's Opera House, Virginia City, and in all the principal towns and mining camps in the state of Nevada". This paper, financed by Sutro "for the sole purpose of promoting his senatorial campaign under the Independent Party banner", was started in June 1874 and issued its last number in January, 1875. Sutro then "removed the plant to the town of...
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Color Lithograph, a "Spy" Portrait of Swinburne captioned "Before Sunrise", from Vanity Fair for Novr. 21, 1874.

By: [Swinburne, Algernon Charles]

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: [swinburne,algernoncharles]30103/8x131/8inches.a

10 3/8 x 13 1/8 inches. A little soiled, rusty paper-clip mark on upper left corner. A Very Good print.
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The Homes of Tennyson.

By: [Tennyson, Alfred] Arthur Paterson.

Price: $130.00

Seller ID: [tennyson,alfred]arthurpaterson.130london:adaman

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. First edition. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in gilt, green, and pink, top edge gilt, others uncut, x, 98 pp., a conjugate leaf of ads, and two leaves of ads inserted. Illustrated with 20 inserted color plates, "engraved and printed" after paintings by Helen Allingham, each with printed tissue guards. A presentation copy: "Alice L. Hordern from Lady Tennyson, Xmas 1905." This would be Alfred Tennyson's daughter-in-law, the wife of his oldest surviving son, Hallam, the second Lord Tennyson. The poet William Allingham and ...
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Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster.

By: [Thompson, D'Arcy W.

Price: $425.00

Seller ID: [thompson,d'arcyw.425edinburgh:edmonstonanddougl

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1864. First edition (NCBEL v.3, 1727). Original red cloth, gilt lettered, ruled in gilt and blind, 328 pp., 24 pp. of ads, undated. A presentation copy, laid in is an autograph note, signed, from D.W. Thompson the younger to "James Aitken, Wanganui (sic), from the Schoolmaster's son, the figiolus parvulus to whom the Day Dreams were dedicated, seventy-five years ago. 19-1-39". Aitken was a school-master in Whanganui, New Zealand. The dedication, to the author's "little child", who was five at the time, is in Latin. The father was an expert clas...
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The Beginnings of Russian History. An Enquiry into Sources.

By: [Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth] N.K. Chadwick.

Price: $90.00

Seller ID: [thompson,d'arcywentworth]n.k.chadwick.90cambrid

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1946. First edition. Original grey cloth, gilt, and printed dust jacket, 180 pp. A presentation copy: "To Sir D'arcy W. Thompson, with warm gratitude for much encouragement in early days, from Nora K. Chadwick. July, 1846". Mrs. Chadwick (1891-1972) was an historian at Cambridge University, specializing in the medieval period. She lectured at St. Andrews during WWI. Cloth with a couple of small bubbles, else Fine.
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Mathematical Biophysics; Physicomathematical Foundations of Biology.

By: [Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth] Nicolas Rashevsky.

Price: $575.00

Seller ID: [thompson,d'arcywentworth]nicolasrashevsky.575ch

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. Original blue cloth, gilt, 340 pp. Presentation copy: "To Professor D'Arcy W. Thompson, with compliments and best regards of the author." And, laid in is Thompson's printed review of the volume, clipped from an unidentified journal, but it was "Nature", vol. 142, 26 November, 1938, pp. 931-932. Thompson (1860-1948), in his "On Growth and Form", 1917, pioneered the science of bio-mathematics.. In the laid-in review for "Nature" he summarizes Rashevsky's effort as much needed but rather too speculative, and prods his bio...
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Life in Inland Waters.

By: [Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth] Kathleen E. Carpenter.

Price: $190.00

Seller ID: [thompson,d’arcywentworth]kathleene.carpenter.190

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1928. Original blue cloth, gilt, decorated in blind, illustrated, 267 pp. Presentation copy: To Professor D’Arcy Thompson from the author. 12.ix.28”. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1944) was appointed to the Chair of Natural History at St. Andrews University in 1917, the same year his famous book “On Growth and Form”, was published. He remained there until his death at 88. This title in the series “Text-Books of Animal Biology”, general editor Julian S. Huxley, and Huxley gives the Foreword. Dr. Kathleen Carpenter was a British ecologist, known for ...
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The Concord Saunterer.

By: [Thoreau, Henry D.] Cook, Reginald Lansing.

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henryd.]cook,reginaldlansing.100middleb

Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College Press, 1940. First edition (Borst, C29). Original pictorial paper boards, pictorial dust jacket, in a custom cloth and acrylic plastic slipcase. Signed by Cook on the title. One of 600 copies. If not for light age-toning to the jacket, a Fine copy in a Fine jacket.
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Mr. Emerson Writes a Letter About Walden.

By: [Thoreau, Henry D.] Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henryd.]emerson,ralphwaldo.75(noplace):

(No place): The Thoreau Society and the Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1954. First edition (Myerson, A64, issue one). Original printed wrappers, in a custom cloth and acrylic plastic slipcase, printed paper label. A Fine copy.
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A Centennial Check-List of the Editions of Henry David Thoreau's Walden.

By: [Thoreau, Henry D.] Harding, Walter.

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henryd.]harding,walter.75charlottesvill

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the Unversity of Virginia, 1954. Original printed wrappers, 31 pp., in a custom cloth and acrylic plastic slipcase, printed paper label. Paper browned, else Fine.
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A Fable for Critics.

By: [Thoreau, Henry D.] Lowell, James Russell.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henryd.]lowell,jamesrussell.50(newyork)

(New York): G.P. Putnam, (1848). First edition, second printing (BAL 13063). Original paper boards, printed paper label lacking, in a custom marbled paper slipcase. Lowell's popular poem pokes fun at many of the literary figures of the day, including Thoreau, who had yet to write his first book: "How he jumps, how he strains, and gets red in the face, / To keep step with the mystagogue's (Emerson) natural pace!". Worn, top of spine lacks 1 1/2 inches, label lacking, light foxing. A Good copy.
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The Personality of Thoreau.

By: [Thoreau, Henry D.] Sanborn, F.B. Franklin Benjamin.

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henryd.]sanborn,f.b.franklinbenjamin.75

Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1901. First edition (Borst, C17). Original quarter cloth, printed paper label, and paper boards. One of 500 copies printed at the Merrymount Press. With the engraved bookplate of Charles Conrad Abbott (1843-1919), archaeologist and naturalist. Worn, foxed, label chipped with much loss. A Fair copy.
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The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers.

By: [Thoreau, Henry D.] Taylor, J. Golden, editor.

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henryd.]taylor,j.golden,editor.75logan,

Logan, Utah: The Utah State University Press, (1963). First edition. Original printed wrappers, in a custom cloth and acrylic plastic slipcase, gilt. Margins sunned, a Very Good copy.
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Program, Henry David Thoreau Commemorative Stamp Ceremony.

By: [Thoreau, Henry D.].

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henryd.].100(noplace:thethoreausocietya

(No place: The Thoreau Society and the Thoreau Lyceum, 1967). One sheet, folded. In a custom cloth folder, printed paper spine label. The program of the celebration in Concord, on July 12, 1967, commemorating Thoreau with a U.S. postage stamp. With the 5 cent stamp and First Day Cover post mark. A Fine copy.
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Thoreau Among Others. Essays in Honor of Walter Harding.

By: [Thoreau, Henry David] Gollin, Rita K. and James B. Scholes, editors.

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henrydavid]gollin,ritak.andjamesb.scholes

(No place): State University College of New York at Geneseo, 1983. Original printed wrappers, illustrated, 122 pp. Eight essays, contributors include Joel Myerson, Elizabeth Witherell, Walter Harding, and Laurence Buell. A Fine copy.
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Thoreau at Katahdin.

By: [Thoreau, Henry David] Grunsky, Frederic K.

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henrydavid]grunsky,frederick.25(carmich

(Carmichael, CA: Printed by Frederic Grunsky at his Press Off the Winding Way, 1998). Original printed wrappers, four pp. First printed in the Sierra Club Bulletin in 1960, it also appeared in Voices of the Earth (Sierra Club Books), 1979. This is a keepsake for the Sacramento Book Collectors Club. Fine.
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Henry David Thoreau Chronology.

By: [Thoreau, Henry David] Kleinfeld, Leonard F

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: [thoreau,henrydavid]kleinfeld,leonardf35foresthi

Forest Hills, NY: (Self published), 1950. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 10 pp. A stated limitation of 1,000 copies. A Fine copy.
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