Thoreau, Henry David

20 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces and photogravure plates by Herbert W. Gleason.  Publisher's three-quarter green levant morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, text and titles in two, the others with gilt floral and star tools, edges gilt, many pages uncut; some fading to spines, neat repairs to joints of volume one, some rubbing to extremities.

BAL 20145

LIMITED EDITION, number 140 of 600 sets, signed by the publisher. Four-page manuscript by Thoreau, rather than the standard two, tipped into the first volume. 115-lines of text, with corrections and emendations in pencil in Thoreau's hand. The passages—which differ from the published versions—are from "Walking" and "Social Dyspepsia," with the author observing in the latter that "a wise man is as unconscious of the movement in the body politic as he is of the process of digestion and the circulation of the blood in the natural body."