Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852. First Edition, Mixed Issue. Hardcover. Offered here is the Ralph Waldo Emerson-edited, love-laborious compendium of “memoirs” by & about Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), a central organizing force-&-figure both in American Transcendentalism as a movement, and in the greater Concord/Boston area, writ large. Now, to the matter at hand: the “problem” of discovering what it is (once and forever) that makes a First, Second, Third..... More

Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. "The development of Thoreau's identity--from David Henry, son of John and Cynthia, to Henry David, sojourner at Walden, was a long, complex, and painful process; it was by no means a fully self-assured, stately march to the beat of a different drummer. The period between Thoreau's graduation from Harvard in 1837 and the beginning of the Walden experiment in 1845..... More