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The Little Book of Nature Themes
by Henry David Thoreau
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, 1912. Early Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Good. HENRY DAVID THOREAU. The Little Book of Nature Themes, Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1912. 18mo (about 5.5x3 inches), second edition, pp. xv, 80, printed cardboard covers with dust jacket and parchment wrapper, slipcased. R.U. [Rutgers?] Library deaccession bookplate on front paste-down and on top of dust jacket flap. Selections from Thoreau works made by Thomas Coke Watkins. See BAL 20209 for the first edition of 1906. Condition of this set: Slipcase tape-repaired and lacking its top edge. Parchment wrapper and covers darkened, overall very good. Size: 18mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; United States; 1900-1920; Environment & Ecology. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55470. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55470
- Title
- The Little Book of Nature Themes
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Thomas B. Mosher
- Place of Publication
- Portland
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Literature & Literary; United States; 1900-1920; Environment & Ecology. Unbranded Henry David Thoreau The Little Book of Nature Themes
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- Paste-down
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- Tight
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