(Literature) 1 Vol. Thoreau, Henry D. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. 12mo, original brown cloth, blind stamped covers, gilt lettered spine; minor wear to spine ends. Yellow endpapers, fly leaves, terminal blank. With title vignette and map inserted after p. 306. Eight page publisher's advertisements, dated April, 1854, at back. Light to moderate foxing to endpapers, flyleaves and title-page, other scattered light foxing and occasional small dust smudging. Leaf size, 7 1/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 180 x 114mm. Bookseller's ticket of A Stacy, Concord Ms. at gutter foot of front free endpaper recto. In custom brown cloth clam shell box.
With the earliest state of the advertisements, in unusually lightly worn original cloth with the gilt on spine in bright state of preservation.
BAL 20106; Borst A2.1a.