Excursions
by Thoreau, Henry D
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
-
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 319 pages. Portrait of Thoreau on frontispiece with tissue guard. First edition, one of 1,558 copies printed. Original publisher's blue-green pebbled cloth with blind-stamped borders and center wreath. Spine lettered in gilt. Brown-coated end papers. Ten essays including a 33 page biographical sketch by Emerson of Thoreau and nine essays by Thoreau, among them the famous "Walking." Record # 412209
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 412209
- Title
- Excursions
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1863
- Keywords
- Literature, Essays, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...