[Rarebooks] FS: Thoreau's WALDEN illustrated and signed by Edward Steichen

[Charles Agvent]

THOREAU,  Henry  David. WALDEN. New York:  Limited  Editions  Club
1936.  Quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in black linen and blue-green paste
paper-covered    boards.  Illustrated  with   photographs  by   Edward
Steichen.  Designed  by  D. B. Updike and printed  at  the  Merrymount
Press.  Copy #431 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon.
Contents  fine;  boards  with bump to upper front corner;  spine  with
some  of  the black rubbed off in a few spots but not badly sunned  or
worn;  slipcase  with one bottom edge neatly repaired the length  with
sympathetic  brown  tape otherwise quite nice. Very Good  in  slipcase
with neat tape repair to bottom edge.                          $750.00

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