A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Language: English
Published by James Munroe and Company, Boston and Cambridge, 1849
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Head to Tail Books, Westport, CT, U.S.A.Head to Tail Books
AbeBooks seller since April 9, 2025
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 5,660.71
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First edition of Henry David Thoreau?s first book, an account of the 1839 river journey he undertook with his brother, blending travel narrative with Transcendentalist reflections. One of the first 550 bound copies. In repaired publisher's presentation binding of full brown cloth stamped in blind with ornamentation within a 5-rule frame and with gilt lettering on the spine. 8 x 5.25 inches; 413, [3] pages, including publisher's advertisement for Walden on final leaf. Contemporary owner signature on front free endpaper. Later acquired by Arthur Williams Hall (1873-1952) of Massachusetts, bibliophile and manufacturer of laboratory equipment, with his notes in pencil on the front pastedown; thence by descent through three generations, before entering the trade. Binding with moderate edgewear, professional repairs to both spine ends, a horizontal slit across the spine about 1-inch from the tail, a second set of pastedowns apparently added over the originals, staining to the endpapers, and scattered foxing to the interior. Title page and following leaf unopened. The repairs are likely early 20th-century. About Very Good. The book famously did not sell well, and the publisher, who had been storing the unsold copies, asked Thoreau to take them away. Of the 1000 copies printed, Thoreau stored the 706 unsold copies at his family home in Concord. In October 1853, he wrote in his journal, "I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself." Reference: Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 20104.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry D. [David]
- Publisher
- James Munroe and Company, Boston and Cambridge
- Publication year
- 1849
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- First Editions, Philosophy, Travel
Head to Tail Books
Westport, CT, U.S.A.
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Head to Tail Books is a bookstore for rare, vintage, and collectible books, open online and by appointment in Fairfield County, Connecticut. We sell books of all eras, from handpress to modern. We are interested in the quirky and unusual, miniature books, books by authors of color, bindings, books and ephemera about dogs, and other subjects. Let us help you develop your book collection and enhance your library. The proprietor is a former Special Collections Cataloging Librarian, a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS) and Rare Book School, and a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and Miniature Book Society (MBS).…
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