Lot 147
  • 147

Thoreau, Henry David

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
  • ink and paper
8vo. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine ends worn with some loss, tips of corners exposed, cloth with minor rubbing and a little fading. Red half-morocco case.

Provenance

Frederic Skiff (bookplate); Estelle Doheny (bookplate). Perryville sale, CNY, 14 December, 2001, lot 385, $4200

Literature

BAL 20106

Catalogue Note

First edition, the doheny copy. Ads dated October (as preferred by some).