THOREAU, Henry David. Illustrated with Photographs by Edward Steichen. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby.
Walden or Life in the Woods.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately": The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden; signed and illustrated with photographs taken at Walden Pond by Edward Steichen
Boston: Printed at the Merrymount Press for Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1936.
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The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Thoreau's masterpiece, signed and illustrated with photographs taken at various seasons at Walden Pond by Edward Steichen. Quarto, original publisher's half-cloth over handmade paper-covered boards, top edge blue, illustrated with photographs taken at Walden Pond by Edward Steichen. One of fifteen hundred copies signed by Edward Steichen on the colophon, this is number 1300. In fine condition. Housed in a custom felt-lined half morocco clamshell box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Combining nature, philosophy and the classics, Thoreau's account of his 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. "[Walden] still seems to me the best youth's companion yet written by an American, for it carries a solemn warning against the loss of one's valuables, it advances a good argument for traveling light and trying new adventures, it rings with the power of powerful adoration, it contains religious feeling without religious images, and it steadfastly refuses to record bad news" (E. B. White, Yale Review, 1954).
Walden or Life in the Woods.
$1,250.00
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