The frontispiece portrait that appears in this volume is the first publication of his Thoreau's likeness anywhere.
Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. When Thoreau died of tuberculosis in May of 1862 at the age of 44, nothing of his had been published in the eight intervening years since Walden. The editor of this book, who also contributed the 26-page "Biographical Sketch" of Thoreau, was his friend and fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 32 pages. Henry David Thoreau advised in his journal that we should Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods. This posthumous collection of naturalist essays, including "A Winter Walk," "Autumnal Tints," and "Night and Moonlight". This was Thoreau's third book, preceded only by A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Walden (1854). "In short, all good things are wild and free." - Thoreau, "Walking" In custom quarter green morocco over cloth covered board clamshell case.įirst edition, one of 1,558 copies printed, of Thoreau's third book
Frontispiece portrait very minor toning and offsetting. Original blue green blindstamped “Z cloth", covers decoratively bordered in blind with central wreath motif, spine gilt-lettered with floral motif in gilt, brown coated endpapers.
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