A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Thoreau, Henry D.

Published by James Munroe and Company, Boston and Cambridge, 1849

About this Item

A lovely copy of Thoreau's first book. Text block is clean, unmarked and fine. Leather binding is split at front hinge, board is held by endpapers. In very good slipcase. in very good black cloth slipcase with beveled edges. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with brick red leather binding. Single gold rules on front and back boards and outlining spine compartments, book edges and inner margins. Gold tooled raised bands. Gold engraved lettering. Marbled endpapers First edition with ad "Will soon be published / Walden, . . ." in back.

Seller Inventory # 3610

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Publisher: James Munroe and Company, Boston and Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Rare and Unique
  • Literature
  • Literary First Editions