8vo. (Very occasional spotting at margins.) Engraved portrait frontispiece. Original wavy blue-green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, brown coated endpapers (spine lightly sunned, few tiny spots of wear at ends). Provenance: Unidentified ownership signature on title-page.

FIRST EDITION of Thoreau's anthology of essays collected by the author's sister and posthumously published a year after his death. BAL 20111.