[Rarebooks] FS: Near Fine True First Printing of Thoreau's THE MAINE WOODS, 1864

[Charles Agvent]

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." (#015689)        $3,000

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/015689/henry-david-thoreau/the-maine-woods

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