THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Illustrated with vignette of Thoreau's hut on title-page, and map of Walden Pond. 8vo, original brown cloth with covers decoratively blind-stamped, spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, light shelfwear to bottom edges; bookplate tipped to front pastedown below mild abrasion from earlier removed label; gutters stressed slightly between pp. 185-86, terminal leaves possibly supplied from another copy, p. 357 with paper repair; cloth folding case with morocco label. From the Estate of Kenneth Silverman, a Pulitzer-winning biographer. Mr. Silverman was a specialist in Colonial American literature and the co-director of the program in American civilization at New York University. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854