Little Essays From the Works of Henry David Thoreau. Selected by Charles R. Murphy. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. 184 pp. Green cloth hardcover, tan dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Dust jacket has some tears and discoloring, etc. Book is only slightly aged overall. Charles R. Murphy selected some excerpts from Thoreau's main books and created "essays" out of them. This is really a collection of key passages, renamed by Murphy. An unusual find indeed.