Between Concord and Plymouth: The Transcendentalists and The Watsons. With the Hillside Collection of Manuscripts. By L. D. Geller. Thoreau Foundation, Inc., Thoreau Lyceum, and Pilgrim Society. Published by "The Pilgrim Publishers of Kingston, Massachusetts. This book has been bound by Halliday Lithograph Company of Plymouth, Massachusetts" 1973. First Edition limited to 1500 copies. First printing. Hardcover, 237 pp. This copy is in good condition, in olive green cloth cover. The dust jacket has a few small tears at the top front. Pages are clear.

Describes the friendship of Henry D. Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet William Ellery Channing II, and A. Bronson Alcott, for the Watsons of Plymouth. The book centers on Benjamin Marston Watson's home "Hillside" in Plymouth, where from 1842 to 1893, Watson created a rural paradise in his Old Colony Nurseries. A flourishing correspondence and intellectual connection developed between the Concord Literary Circle and their Plymouth friends. With a foreword by Thomas Blanding.