THOREAU, HENRY D[AVID] | Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854

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THOREAU, HENRY D[AVID]

Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854

8vo. Wood-engraved vignette of Thoreau's hut after a sketch by his sister Sophia, lithographed plan of Walden Pond, 8pp. of publisher's advertisements at the end dated April, 1854; some toning and spotting throughout, contemporary ownership inscriptions to endleaves. Publisher's brown cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered; extremities rubbed, some fraying to cloth.

First edition of Thoreau’s celebrated account of Transcendentalist self-sufficiency

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

REFERENCE:

Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier, American 63