The Maine Woods
by Thoreau, Henry David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Weare,, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in unfaded original green pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles to spine, brown coated endpapers, boards blind embossed with eight-point corner pieces with wreath central both front and rear. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities, spine especially showing wear at head and foot, threads showing there and corners. A terrific copy, the cloth is clean and vibrant, and the whole is tightly bound. Adhesive remnants on bottom edge of front pastedown from address label carefully removed, and on second free end paper where a newspaper (20th century) photo of Thoreau has been also carefully removed leaving a ghost, some adhesive and ink from reverse of clipping. Another of 1650 copies published in May, 1864 with the list of Thoreau's books priced and no edition statement on the copyright page, 20+ pages of advertisements bound in at the rear dated April 1864. The cloth is a variant not listed in BAL. Last page of the adverts state "The Thirteenth Volume"... photos always available to serious customers.; 328 pages .
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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- Bookseller
- Boomer's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15249
- Title
- The Maine Woods
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1864
- Keywords
- Thoreau, Maine Woods
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural Science;
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