A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

by Henry David Thoreau

$38,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition, first printing of the author's first book, which was published at his own expense. 413, 1 , 1, ad for Walden: Soon to be published pp. Bound in publisher's original trade binding with boards ruled in blind and spine decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, pale yellow endsheets. Small ownership bookplate of former Wall Street executive

• Printing: first

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