1906 Beautiful Edition bound by SANGORSKI - WALDEN or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau with Photographs.
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Author: Henry David Thoreau.
Title: WALDEN or Life in the Woods.
Language: Text in English.
Publisher: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (Cambridge, The Riverside Press), no date (circa 1906).
Size : 8 " X 6 ".
Pages: 367 pages.
Binding: Attractive near fine half morocco leather binding finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (London, England) (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover. A rare find in such a beautiful binding!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the frontispiece (Walden's Cove, Walden Pond) and the 3 inspiring full-page photographs (Thoreau's Cove and the Memorial Cairn, Walden Pound and Mount Wachusett, Walden Woods).
Estimate: (Scarce with practically no other copy in such a nice binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe!).
The book: Rare 1906 Houghton Mifflin Company complete edition in one volume of Walden with photographs in a beautiful half morocco leather binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London.
Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is a part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, a voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance.
The author: Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.