first edition
1865 · Boston
by Thoreau, Henry David
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. (BAL binding A with "Author of Excursions and a Week on the Concord River" on spine, imprint of Ticknor & Co. Borst A.6.1.a variant 4.) [viii], 229 pp. Original purple cloth with zigzag pattern, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. Very Good with cloth at head and tail worn away, toning to spine, small stain to back board. The uncommon preferred binding of Thoreau's Letters.
(Inventory #: 140939701)