A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

by Henry David Thoreau

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition of the author's first book. 413, 3 pp. With terminal advertisement leaf announcing “Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods …”. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown blindstamped cloth. Spine perished, boards edgeworn and detached. Textblock clean and sound. Review of the book tipped in at end on verso of advertisement leaf and facing blank clipping partly toned . Half morocco slipcase and chemise. BAL 20104; Borst A1.1.a; for

• Binding: Leather

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