THOREAU, HENRY DAVID | Walden: or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID

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

8vo. Map of Walden Pond, publisher's advertisements dated May bound in at rear; some minor occasional marginal soiling. Publisher's brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, spine and covers blindstamped; spine rebacked but preserving original, some minor staining to covers and edges. Half-brown morocco gilt slipcase, chemise.

First edition of the greatest of all "self-help" books. "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."

REFERENCES:

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