Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Rare and modern books

Thoreau, Henry David And Dircks, Will H. (Editor)

Walden

Walter Scott Ltd, 1886

200.00 €

Godley Books

(Hyde, United Kingdom)

Ask for more info

Payment methods

Details

Year of publication
1886
Place of printing
London
Author
Thoreau, Henry David And Dircks, Will H. (Editor)
Publishers
Walter Scott Ltd
Size
7 x 5 inches
Keyword
Biography, Naturalist, Massachusetts, Spirituality, Satire, Science
Cover description
No Jacket
Binding description
Hard Cover
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked olive green boards, gilt embossing to front, clear gilt lettering to spine, gilt top of page edges, minor rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed and dusty. 336pp. An account of the author's simple living in natural surroundings over two years in the 1850s. He lived in a self-built cabin at Walden Pond on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the time he made a number of precise scientific observations. Undated ca 1886.