Walden; or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

$20,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition, first printing. 357, 7, blank including rear endpaper , 8 ads pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decoratively stamped in blind with titles in gilt on spine, with ads at rear dated June 1854 no priority . Title page vignette of Thoreau's hut at Walden, and a plate of a map at Walden Pond with faint Chandler imprint. Very Good+ with lean to binding; moderate edge wear,

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