Walden; or Life in the Woods
Boston: Merrymount Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1936.
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Hardcover. Limited Editions Club edition. Quarto. Cloth and pastepaper over boards in slipcase. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Steichen. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. Two tiny tears at the crown, and just a touch of rubbing to the spine, else near fine in very good slipcase with a split at one joint. One of 1500 numbered copies Signed by Steichen. One of the most desirable of the club's productions – the Steichen photographs are particularly attractive.
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Henry David Thoreau
birth name: Henry David Thoreau
born: 7/12/1817
died: 5/6/1862
nationality: USA
Biography
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher who is best known for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism, recording his experience in his masterwork, Walden (1854). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore