Stevens Bertha Compiler (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding and green and brown dust wrapper in mylar. Dust wrapper shows a scenic forest illustration on the front panel. The back panel includes an educator's guide on "how to use Thoreau in elementary school teaching." 5 3/4" x 8 1/4." 229 pages, complete. Nine black and white plates (including a map showing Thoreau's travels in and near Concord, Massachusetts) and additional black and white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers of the book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is very clean and intact. Dust wrapper has slight edge wear and has been price-clipped. A Fine book in a Fine dust wrapper. Excerpt from the front flap of the dust wrapper: "From the mass of Thoreau's writings Miss Stevens has made a selection of what he saw and thought about Nature, material which she has used with exciting success in the teaching of rudimentary science to young people, but which has equal worth for the reader of any age." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American author, naturalist, abolitionist, and philosopher. Thoreau is best-known for his poems and essays. Many of his writings interweave themes of nature and philosophy.