week concord merrimack rivers introduction von thoreau henry david (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Quarto, 10.25 in. x 6.75 in. pp. xv, [3], 327. Limited edition #1146/2000, signed by the illustrator on the colophon. Laid-in: Original Limited Editions Club envelope (6 in. x 9 in.) with copy of Limited Editions Club Monthly Newsletter (June 1975, Number 488), which discusses the design of this publication. Richly illustrated with drawings in green ink. Half green cloth over green marbled boards. Gilt title on two stamped black panels to spine. Endpaper maps. White title on dark green paper label to black slipcase. Very light rubbing to slipcase. Originally published in 1849, this was Thoreau's first book and it cost him several hundred dollars, though only 219 copies sold. By 1853, the printer refused to store the unsold copies and returned 706 of them to Thoreau, who noted at the time, "I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself." Near Fine / Very Good Plus (slipcase).

327 pp. 1 vols. 4to. 286 of 2000 copies, signed by the artist, R. J. Holden. 327 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in half cloth and boards. Slipcase. Fine, with monthly letter 286 of 2000 copies, signed by the artist, R. J. Holden.