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Maine Woods
by THOREAU, Henry David
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. Full Description:
THOREAU, Henry David. The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864.
First edition, first issue. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 181 x 119 mm). [viii], 328, [23, ads], [1, blank] pp. With list of Thoreau's writings on p. [ii] priced. Publisher's ads dated April, 1864 and The Atlantic Monthly advertising 'The Thirteenth Volume.'
Original purple morocco grain cloth. Covers decoratively ruled and stamped with a wreath in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Spine lightly sunned. Chemeised and and housed in a quarter morocco slipcase. Overall about fine.
"The Maine Woods, autobiographical narrative by Thoreau, posthumously published (1864) as edited by the younger W.E. Channing. It contains three accounts of trips to Maine: 'Ktaadn' (Union Magazine, 1848), describing an excursion to Mt. Ktaadn in 1846; 'Chesuncook' (Atlantic Monthly, 1858), about a journey from Bangor to Chesuncook Lake in 1853, with an Indian guide, Joe Aitteon; and 'The Allegash and East Branch,' concerned with a voyage (1857) with 'a relative' and the Indian guide Joe Polis, from Bangor to St. Johns lakes by way of Moosehead and Chesuncook, returning by the East Branch of the Penobscot. During this excursion, Thoreau made an extended study of Polis, 'one of the aristocracy' of the Penobscot Indians, a silent, capable hunter and backwoodsman." (Oxford Companion to American Literature, 515).
Allen pp. 17-18. BAL 20113. Borst pp. 45-46. Johnson, American First Editions, p. 501.
HBS 68991.
$2,750.
THOREAU, Henry David. The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864.
First edition, first issue. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 181 x 119 mm). [viii], 328, [23, ads], [1, blank] pp. With list of Thoreau's writings on p. [ii] priced. Publisher's ads dated April, 1864 and The Atlantic Monthly advertising 'The Thirteenth Volume.'
Original purple morocco grain cloth. Covers decoratively ruled and stamped with a wreath in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Spine lightly sunned. Chemeised and and housed in a quarter morocco slipcase. Overall about fine.
"The Maine Woods, autobiographical narrative by Thoreau, posthumously published (1864) as edited by the younger W.E. Channing. It contains three accounts of trips to Maine: 'Ktaadn' (Union Magazine, 1848), describing an excursion to Mt. Ktaadn in 1846; 'Chesuncook' (Atlantic Monthly, 1858), about a journey from Bangor to Chesuncook Lake in 1853, with an Indian guide, Joe Aitteon; and 'The Allegash and East Branch,' concerned with a voyage (1857) with 'a relative' and the Indian guide Joe Polis, from Bangor to St. Johns lakes by way of Moosehead and Chesuncook, returning by the East Branch of the Penobscot. During this excursion, Thoreau made an extended study of Polis, 'one of the aristocracy' of the Penobscot Indians, a silent, capable hunter and backwoodsman." (Oxford Companion to American Literature, 515).
Allen pp. 17-18. BAL 20113. Borst pp. 45-46. Johnson, American First Editions, p. 501.
HBS 68991.
$2,750.
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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- Title
- Maine Woods
- Author
- THOREAU, Henry David
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1864
- Keywords
- American Literature|Nineteenth-Century Literature
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