[Rarebooks] FS: Thoreau's WALDEN, illustrated and signed by Edward Steichen
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Thu Dec 13 07:56:08 EST 2007
From our Last-Minute Gift List now posted on our website. It is
comprised of 75 items priced from $10 to $30,000 and includes both new
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fine bindings, and limited editions. We can get any of these to you by
Christmas if ordered by Thursday, December 20.
THOREAU, Henry David. WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. 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 #749 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer
on the colophon page. Contents fine; boards fine; spine mildly sunned
with two 1/4" closed tears at the top of the spine. The slipcase
lacks a small piece at the top outside edge and has tape repairs at
the bottom edge. Very Good in Good or better slipcase. $700.00
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