Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Title-page vignette of Throreau's cottage and lithographed map of Walden Pond. 357, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine, letters slightly burnished, ends and tips rubbed with loss of cloth; hinges starting; 8 pages of advertisements dated April inserted between rear endpapers; internally tight and sound. first edition. Allen 8; Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854