THOREAU, Henry David

Walden, or Life in the Woods

First edition. Publisher's cloth gilt. Contemporary inscription (Clara Reed, Concord City, 1856), a bit of foxing, and some modest wear to the cloth at the spine ends, a handsome and unsophisticated, near fine copy with the cloth and gilt fresh and bright. In a custom quarter-morocco slipcase. 2000 copies were printed July 12, 1854 and the book was published on August 9. This copy has the inserted publisher's advertisements dated April, 1854. Copies exist with ads dated April, May, September and October, 1854, as well as September, 1855. While The Bibliography of American Literature notes that these ads are of "no known bibliographical significance," it is certainly preferable to have those ads that are dated previous to publication.

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