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Cape Cod (Two Volumes, Complete)
by Thoreau, Henry David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1896. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Bound in publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering and floral decoration on spines and covers, rear covers blind-stamped with the same lettering and decoration as the front covers, but not in gilt, t.e.g. Illustrated with two tissue-protected full-page color frontispieces in addition to numerous color in-text vignettes introduced as head-pieces, tail-pieces, and in the margins; all of the illustrations are chromolithographs, bright and clean. The Art Nouveau cover design is by Sarah Wyman Whitman, one of the most important book designers of the 19th Century. . Spines and bottom edges lightly sunned, small loss at the head of the spine of Volume 2 only, else near fine; unmarked (aside from some old brief bookseller's markings on the endpapers), tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . Color Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (x), 173; (x), 208 pp .
Synopsis
Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau’s journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses, in fishing huts, and on isolated farms. He passed his days wandering the beaches, where he observed the wide variety of life and death offered up by the ocean. Through these observations, Thoreau discovered that the only way to truly know the sea—its depth, its wildness, and the natural life it contained—was to study it from the shore. Like his most famous work, Walden , Cape Cod is full of Thoreau’s unique perceptions and precise descriptions. But it is also full of his own joy and wonder at having stumbled across a new frontier so close to home, where a man may stand and “put all America behind him.” Part of the Penguin Nature Library Series Editor: Edward Hoagland With an Introduction by Paul Theroux
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29421
- Title
- Cape Cod (Two Volumes, Complete)
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Illustrator
- Amelia M. Watson
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Literature;, Romanticism, Cape Cod, Illustrated Books, Henry David Thoreau, Amelia M. Watson, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Transcendentalism, Philosophy
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Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
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