Walden; or Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

$30,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Illustrated with a title vignette of Thoreau's cabin in the woods and an engraved plan of Walden Pond. 357, 1, blank pp. 8 pp. April ads at back. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown vertical-ribbed cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Fine copy two tiny scuffs at at foot of spine . Allen, pp. 8-10; Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier, American 63.

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