Walden
by Thoreau, Henry David
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Collector's Edition. EASTON PRESS books are among the highest quality leather bound books ever produced. Bound in full genuine leather with hubbed spine, accented with 22kt gold lettering and designs, printed on archival paper (acid neutral) with gilded edges, smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. Lustrous silk moire endpapers. A silk page marker is sewn into the binding. This book, in pristine condition, belongs to the literature series. Easton Press bookplate enclosed and unattached.
Synopsis
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is an American classic. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
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Details
- Bookseller
- VFOL UsedBooks (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2112036
- Title
- Walden
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Format/Binding
- Fine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, Collector's Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 335
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, Leather Bound
- Bookseller catalogs
- philosophy; EastonPress;
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