Walden: Or Life in the Woods
by THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Edward Steichen. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 1500 numbered copies [#620] bound quarter black cloth with decorated paper over boards; gilt lettering to the spine; green topstain, other edges untrimmed. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates from photographs. Some shelfwear to the outer edges of boards and tp the head and heel of the spine; previous owner's plate to the front pastedown, as well as a stamp to the recto of the rear endpage. Outer page edges lightly browned. Signed by Steichen on the limitations page.
Synopsis
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is an American classic. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22950
- Title
- Walden: Or Life in the Woods
- Author
- THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
- Illustrator
- Edward Steichen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1936
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
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About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Heel
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
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- Plate
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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