WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS
by Thoreau, Henry D.:
Price: $22,000.00
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: WRCLIT 57640
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
Book Description
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Map inserted before p.307. Early bookseller's description lightly tipped to front pastedown, minute nick at crown of spine and slight fraying in one spot at extended portion of toe of spine, otherwise near fine. First edition, first printing. One of two thousand copies printed. This copy lacks an inserted terminal catalogue (some copies were issued without catalogues, and others with any one of five variously dated catalogues). "Solid chunks of thought, in the midst of a solid chunk of nature...an inspiration to nature-lovers, to philosophers...[we'll skip the Calvin Coolidge reference], and to persons who love to read the English language written with clarity" - Grolier American Hundred. BORST A2.1.a. GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 63.
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