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WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS [Collector's Custom Clamshell case only - Not a book and "no book" included]
by Henry David Thoreau
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for Henry David Thoreau's American Classic: Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in black Nuba® with a 'sculpted' breathtaking log cabin landscape design and gold sides. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request.
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When you place your order:
Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Sized to fit: 7.25 x 4.75 x 1.2.
"Book definitely NOT included"
When you place your order:
Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Sized to fit: 7.25 x 4.75 x 1.2.
Synopsis
From the book:When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though they do not appear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, very natural and pertinent. Some have asked what I got to eat; if I did not feel lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained. I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no particular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answer some of these questions in this book. In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.
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- Bookseller
- TBCL The Book Collection Library
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32972
- Title
- WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS [Collector's Custom Clamshell case only - Not a book and "no book" included]
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- COLLECTOR'S CLAMSHELL CASES, Henry David Thoreau
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