Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 155)
New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2351441
1963-67 printing of Toledano 155.3 (Scudder foreword included), binding/jacket style 11l, $2.45 jacket price, blank jacket reverse, light brown Rockwell Kent endpapers. Jacket lightly rubbed, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xxiv, 732 pp. 8vo. The first comprehensive, single-volume edition of the writings of Henry David Thoreau, the American author known for living in the woods along Walden pond, and his associations with fellow Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, etc. Edited, and with a biographical introduction, by Brooks Atkinson, foreword by Townsend Scudder. Includes: Walden; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Cape Cod; The Allegash and East Branch; Walking; Civil Disobedience; Slavery in Massachusetts; A Plea for Captain John Brown; Life Without Principle.
Price: $35.00