The Passion of American C🥂ollectors: Propertജy of Barbara and Ira Lipman

Thoreau, Henry David

Walden's Pond, or Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854

8vo. Without the insert💟ed terminal catalogue. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Minor fraying at toe of spine, tiny nick at head, but an attractive copy.

First edition. One of 2000 copies. 

Any one of five variously dated catalogs are usually found inserted at the end, but copies werꦫe also issued without any inserted.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover t▨hat I had not lived". Combining nature, philosophy and the classics, Thoreau's account of hisꦏ year in a shack along the shore of Walden pond was wholly unlike what had come before and his achievement was a uniquely American contribution to literature.

REFERENCE

Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier American 63