Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
by Thoreau, Henry David
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1590300882
- ISBN 13
- 9781590300886
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About This Item
Shambhala, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by the renown wood engraver Michael McCurdy, whose images grace this 150th anniversary edition. Scarce signed. Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams. Small quarto, fine and seemingly unread in a near fine jacket with light sunning to spine and a touch of wear to rear edge of spine. A beautiful production. We invite you to explore our growing collection of signed and inscribed books related to Thoreau. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
Synopsis
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is an American classic. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1681534889350
- Title
- Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1590300882
- ISBN 13
- 9781590300886
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2004
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About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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