[Literature] Thoreau, Henry D. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. 8vo. 357, 8 pp. (ads, dated September, 1855, no bibliographical significance per BAL). Illustrated with an engraved map of Walden Pond. Publisher's brown cloth-covered boards, decorated in blind and in gilt (with period at foot of spine), upper portion cocked, light wear to spine ends and corners; all edges trimmed; yellow endpapers; scattered light foxing; small loss in bottom corner pp. 91/92, but not affecting text; in quarter green morocco solander box. Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Allen pp. 8-10; Grolier American 63
A near-fine copy of this towering American classic.
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