Walden; Or, Life in the Woods 1854 ; with a manuscript leaf from Thoreau’s memoirs bound in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau 1906

by Henry David Thoreau

$22,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

“In this one book … he surpasses everything we have had in America.”– Robert Frost, on Walden FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL WORK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM THOREAU’S MEMOIRS. First published in a run of two-thousand copies in Thoreau’s native Massachusetts, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods 1854 synthesises the thematic core of the Transcendentalist movement:

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