Author: Thoreau, Henry David
Title: The Maine Woods.
Description: Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in unfaded original green pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles to spine, brown coated endpapers, boards blind embossed with eight-point corner pieces with wreath central both front and rear. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities, spine especially showing wear at head and foot, threads showing there and corners. A terrific copy, the cloth is clean and vibrant, and the whole is tightly bound. Adhesive remnants on bottom edge of front pastedown from address label carefully removed, and on second free end paper where a newspaper (20th century) photo of Thoreau has been also carefully removed leaving a ghost, some adhesive and ink from reverse of clipping. Another of 1650 copies published in May, 1864 with the list of Thoreau's books priced and no edition statement on the copyright page, 20+ pages of advertisements bound in at the rear dated April 1864. The cloth is a variant not listed in BAL. Last page of the adverts state "The Thirteenth Volume"... photos always available to serious customers.; 328 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket.

Keywords: Thoreau, Maine Woods


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