Men of Concord by Henry D. Thoreau - January 1986

Bonanza Books, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Bonanza Books, 1986. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Bonanza Books, 1986. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Beautiful prints by N. C. Wyeth

Henry D. Thoreau. First edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket (no price) in mylar protective wrapper. Has foxing and tape marks on it. Hardcover: Very Good+ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1936. Printed by Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA. Green cloth with black on cover and spine with silver lettering. Some markings on inside cover and the word catologue on rear cover, otherwise, no writing or markings in the book, 255 pp. With N.C. Wyeth illustrations, including 10 color plates; 24 pen-and-ink drawings attributed to N.C. Wyeth (but actually done by his teenage son, Andrew Wyeth under his father's supervision). This was the first time father and son collaborated for publication.
Francis Allen, author of the Thoreau bibliography, and co-editor of the Walden Edition of the Complete Works, has selected a number of intimate portraits and N. C. Wyeth, for many years a student and admirer of Thoreau, has created a series of illustrative paintings to accompany them.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. First Illustrated Edition. Fine in bright green cloth covered boards with a silver on black title block on the spine with illustrated end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9 3/8 by 6 1/4 inches with the cloth at the heel of the spine very slightly rubbed. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket (no price) with 1/16 inch deep chipping across the upper edge of the spine area which is tanned and slight tanning around the outside edges of the panels with small nicks at the corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. This is a review copy with the publisher's review card laid-in at the front of the book. Illustrated with ten full color plates by N. C. Wyeth. Edited and with an introduction by F. H. Allen. A very handsome copy of a very uncommon title with no prior owner's marks, names or bookplates. 255 pages including an index. (BAL 20252)