Hardcover
1917 · Detroit
by Sanborn, F.B.
Detroit: Gale Research Co, 1917. Hardcover. Good+ (book plate inside front cover, library label inside back cover, library stamp on page 201, label residue on spine, library stamp on title page). Navy boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 541 (1) pp. bw illustrations. Contents: Ancestry and social conditions -- The boyhood and youth of Thoreau -- College essays of a youth of genius -- College essays (concluded) -- Pencil-making schoolmasters and their school -- The week on the rivers -- Thoreau in literature -- Symbolism and paradox -- Thoreau as friend, neighbor, and citizen -- Thoreau as man of letters and of affairs -- Thoreau as author in prose and verse -- The journeyings of Thoreau -- Village sketches, chiefly from the journals -- Slavery and John Brown -- Death and literary rebirth of Thoreau
Appendix: A. Library of Henry D. Thoreau -- B. A list of authors read or to be read by H. D. Thoreau -- C. Asa Dunbar : parson, freemason, and attorney -- D. The Boston home of the Thoreaus in Prince Street -- E. The Jones family and their property -- F. Letter of Z. R. Brockway. (Inventory #: 173106)
Appendix: A. Library of Henry D. Thoreau -- B. A list of authors read or to be read by H. D. Thoreau -- C. Asa Dunbar : parson, freemason, and attorney -- D. The Boston home of the Thoreaus in Prince Street -- E. The Jones family and their property -- F. Letter of Z. R. Brockway. (Inventory #: 173106)