Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau 1958 First Edition Harding Bode NYU Press For Sale

First edition of the first full collected edition of Henry David Thoreau\'s letters, edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode and published by NYU Press in 1958. This was the standard scholarly reference for Thoreau\'s correspondence for over 50 years, until superseded by Princeton University Press\'s multi-volume Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau (2013–2026). Includes every surviving letter written by Thoreau and every known letter written to him, correspondence with Emerson, the Alcotts, Ellery Channing, and others, plus a facsimile of a Thoreau letter. A foundational reference for any serious Thoreau or Transcendentalist library. Offered both with its original dust jacket (rough, repaired — shown in photos) and without, so the buyer can see the book both ways.

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