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

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "I've read accounts of a single person building a log cabin. A lone prospector in northern Canada or Alaska does it all himself. That's impressive. But building together, piecing together the communal knowledge gained from past building and from reading the relevant books and talking to the relevant workers, sharing the experience of turning a bare site..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this definitive biography, the many facets of Thoreau are captured with grace and scholarly rigor...To reveal the author of Walden as one coherent person is Walls' mission, which she fully achieves; as a result of her vigilant focus Thoreau holds the center--no mean achievement in a work through whose pages move the great figures and cataclysmic events of the..... More