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THE MAINE WOODS
by Henry David Thoreau
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields., 1864. first edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 8 vo. Octavo. 328 pp. First edition. Original publisher's plum PD cloth. List of Thoreau's books with prices, 22 pp publisher's catalog dated April 1864, last leaf advertising the Thirteenth Volume. Blindstamped wreaths on covers with borders. Gilt spine titles with "Author of Walden...." Brown coated endpapers. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers extremely clean. Edges and spine moderately sunned. Minimal wear to corners, spine ends have some slight wear with a few teensy chips. Binding tight. Text extremely bright, clean and unmarked. Bookplate of an earlier collector on front pastedown, printed with a scene of a woman on a porch, a book on her lap and sailboats in the distance. BAL 20113. Phil. Rare. RGR.
Synopsis
"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." Henry David Thoreau Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by moonlight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea and moose lips. Taking notes constantly, Thoreau was just as likely to turn his observant eye to the habits and languages of the Abnaki Indians or the arduous life of the logger as he was to the workings of nature. He acutely observed the rivers, lakes, mountains, wolves, moose, and stars in the dark sky. He also told of nights sitting by the campfire, and of meeting men who communicated with each other by writing on the trunks of trees. In The Maine Woods , Thoreau captured a wilder side of America and revealed his own adventurous spirit.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48318
- Title
- THE MAINE WOODS
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1864
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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- Sunned
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- BAL
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- Good+
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- Bookplate
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- Octavo
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