[Rarebooks] FS: 3 copies of Thoreau's WALDEN illustrated with photographs and SIGNED by Edward Steichen, prices reduced

[Charles Agvent]

  We will in the next few days be posting on our home page our latest 
catalog: American Transcendental Literature: Emerson and Thoreau, which 
will include these items as well as many new arrivals including signed 
and rare pieces.

1.   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 #468 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the 
colophon page.  Contents fine; boards fine; spine mildly sunned with 
some dust spotting and crinkling at head where there is a 1/4" closed 
tear and a slightly smaller closed tear; slipcase lacking 3/4" piece at 
top outside edge otherwise quite nice. Very Good in a slipcase with a 
small piece missing on the top front edge.   WAS $650,     now $550.00

2.   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 #431 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the 
colophon page.  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 a Very 
Good slipcase.     WAS $750,    now $650.00

3.   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 #1208 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the 
colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.  Mild bumping to spine tips; 
small adhesive stain on the front pastedown from bookplate once tipped 
in. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase.   WAS $1250,    now $1,000.00

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