THOREAU, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
First edition, first printing, one of 2000 copies, title vignette of Thoreau's hut in the forest, full-page map of Walden Pond in 1846 (without imprint), 8-page publisher's catalogue dated May 1854 at rear (no priority to dating of catalogues). A very fine copy.
8vo. Original brown cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered (light wear at spine ends, later wood-engraving of Walden Pond cut round and mounted on front flyleaf); cloth folding case. Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier American 63.
THOREAU, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
First edition, first printing, one of 2000 copies, title vignette of Thoreau's hut in the forest, full-page map of Walden Pond in 1846 (without imprint), 8-page publisher's catalogue dated May 1854 at rear (no priority to dating of catalogues). A very fine copy.
8vo. Original brown cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered (light wear at spine ends, later wood-engraving of Walden Pond cut round and mounted on front flyleaf); cloth folding case. Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier American 63.
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