These 12 monthly publications of the Union Magazine of Literature and Art from 1848 include 5 excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's writings about Maine.  Under the heading "Ktaadn and the Maine Woods," Thoreau published the following five parts:
The Wilds of the Penobscot
Life in the Wilderness
Boating on the Lakes
The Ascent of Ktaadn
The Return Journey
 
Also includes
"The Sphere of Women" by Horace Greeley,
"Home and Politics", "The Bewildered Savage", "The Hindoo Anchorite" and "The Power of Love" by the American abolitionist and suffragist Lydia Maria Child,
"To ----" and "Sonnet" by Edgar Allen Poe
 
The magazine, which was embellished with "finest steel, mezzontint, and wood engravings, music and colored fashions" was edited by Mrs. C.M. Kirkland and published in New York by James L. DeGraw
 
Condition: The pamphlets are missing the original covers but are still well bound.