Author: THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Title: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983. Leather. ISBN: 0394484479. A deluxe Franklin Library reprint edition of Henry David Thoreau's account of his week spent on a river trip with his brother John from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire and back in 1839. While he described the environment he saw on the trip, Thoreau often veered into philosophical topics. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full blue bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Beige silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine copy but with a couple of very small bumps to top edge of back cover, otherwise clean, tightly-bound, bright and probably unread.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 372 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Natural History >>Fine Bindings
Title: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983. Leather. ISBN: 0394484479. A deluxe Franklin Library reprint edition of Henry David Thoreau's account of his week spent on a river trip with his brother John from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire and back in 1839. While he described the environment he saw on the trip, Thoreau often veered into philosophical topics. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kane. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full blue bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Beige silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine copy but with a couple of very small bumps to top edge of back cover, otherwise clean, tightly-bound, bright and probably unread.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 372 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Natural History >>Fine Bindings
Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87116
- Book number: 87116