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WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS.
by Thoreau, Henry David. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. 290 pp, 10" H. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering, blue/green patterned paper-covered boards, top edge dark green. Number 1225 in a limited edition of fifteen hundred copies, signed on limitation page by the photographer, Steichen. 16 b&w photographs "Taken at Various Seasons at Walden Pond" - all present. Printed at the Merrymount Press. Lacking the original slipcase & glassine wrapper. Small stain at fore-edge of page 279 on - including the rear pastedown (max size 1" x 3/8"), very light browning in margins of pages and on endpapers, light waviness in the bottom margin of pages 68 to 76, light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block - also at the edges of the boards, light to moderate edge wear to boards, wear at top/bottom edges of spine with some very small tears and tiny chips, spine color has lightly faded from black to dark brown, two very small water marks on the spine, two light tnin scratches on the rear board - one 1" long and one 3"long.. Signed by Photographer.. Limited Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Steichen (signed by), photographs..
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
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29315
- Title
- WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS.
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby
- Illustrator
- Edward Steichen (signed by), photographs.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition.
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Edward Steichen, American Photographers, Photography, Walden, Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau, Limited Editions, Signed Books, Philosophy, Living on the Land, Solitude, Baker Farm, Winter, Animals, Plant Life, Neighbors, Visitors, Nature, Rural New Engla
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Photography; Literature; American History & Travel; Philosophy & Psychology;
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