MEN OF CONCORD

  • SIGNED
  • Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936
By Thoreau, Henry David; Wyeth, N.C.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition, signed and dated in the year of publication by Wyeth, a great copy - not often found signed. Wyeth was a long-time admirer of Thoreau, leading him to develop this book containing selected entries from Thoreau's journal. A brilliantly executed homage. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original green cloth stamped in blue and silver. In original dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Wyeth with 10 color plates; 24 pen-and-ink drawings attributed to N.C. Wyeth (but actually done by Andrew Wyeth under his father's supervision). Index at rear. xii, 255, [1] pages. Signed by N.C. Wyeth on title page, and dated "'36." Small erasure mark on endpaper else fine. Jacket with small tape repairs around folds and head of spine, slightly toned spine, very light rubbing to edges.

Details

Title

MEN OF CONCORD

Author

Thoreau, Henry David; Wyeth, N.C.

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin: Boston

Date

1936


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