A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers
de Thoreau, Henry David
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Bound in publisher's zigzag textured green cloth. Ex-libris of J.A. Perkins Jr., Montreal. Front inner hinge tender, light rubbi
- Librería
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. [iv], 286 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. 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. 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
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- Título
- A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers
- Autor
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- [iv], 286 pp. 1 vols. 12mo
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bound in publisher's zigzag textured green cloth. Ex-libris of J.A. Perkins Jr., Montreal. Front inner hinge tender, light rubbi
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Ticknor and Fields
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1866
- Palabras clave
- American | American | German | Henry David Thoreau
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- Hinge
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- 12mo
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