[Rarebooks] FS: Near Fine First Edition of one of Thoreau's most important books
Charles Agvent
chagvent at ptd.net
Mon Oct 25 10:17:36 EDT 2010
From our just posted internet catalog--American Transcendentalists:
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau--consisting of 55 items,
mostly new arrivals and with many autographed pieces. A direct link to
our Catalogs page is:
http://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/catalogues.html?id=EPnCfiRM&mv_pc=1534
THOREAU, Henry David. THE MAINE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864.
First Edition. Original purple Z cloth. BAL 20113: 1650 copies printed
though Borst A4.1.a states that 1450 copies were printed. True first
printing with list of Thoreau's books priced. Catalogue dated April 1864
with last leaf advertising "The Thirteenth Volume." Contents clean.
Spine pleasantly sunned, tips a bit frayed, gilt clear. Near Fine and
scarce in this condition.
About THE MAINE WOODS, Dave Foreman, Earth-First eco-warrior/author, has
written that it is "Thoreau's finest book, far deeper and more important
than WALDEN ... on his two trips into the deep Maine wilderness
[Thoreau] had the epiphany that enabled him to realize that 'in wildness
is the preservation of the world.' MAINE not WALDEN changed American
intellectual history." $3,500.00
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