Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854.



First edition, octavo; with 8 pages of publisher's ads at rear dated June, 1854; illustrated with a wood-engraved vignette of Thoreau's cabin to title and map of Walden pond opposite page 307; bound in brown publisher's cloth, blind-stamped, spine lettered in gilt, with the inverted comma after "Co," and yellow endleaves (small spots and stains mostly at front; some light spotting to cloth, edgewear, corners exposed, endpapers foxed); 7 x 4 3/8 in.

Provenance: Harry L. Frevert, American metallurgist with inked ownership inscription.

BAL 20106; Grolier American 63.