Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. The Writings . . . Walden Edition. 20 volumes. Photographic frontispieces and plates by Herbert W. Gleason of scenes and objects described in the works. Small 8vo, 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards with spines lettered and decoratively stamped in flower, leaf, and circle motif, joints, tips, and spine ends variously rubbed; bookplates. Sold in complete sets and only by subscription; printed from the same plates as the Manuscript Edition. first edition with date printed on title-pages. Borst B4. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906