Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher's spiral-bound maroon wrappers with gilt lettering on the front cover. 9 1/2" x 13." Thirty unnumbered pages, complete. Illustrations in black and white and color, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Wrinkling to the covers and pages. Front cover somewhat dull. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was a novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was a renowned author in his time and even today. Lewis became the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Following Lewis's essay on book collecting are bound-in samples of books to be published by the Limited Editions Club. The samples are as follows: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in Which Is Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by John Austen, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau, Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gipsy, the Priest by George Burrow, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary Conversations Selected and Introduced by R. H. Boothroyd, The King James Version of the Holy Bible, Gargantua & Pantagruel: The Five Books by Francois Rabelais, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne, The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale, and The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler. The Limited Editions Club (LEC) was founded in 1929 by George Macy (1900-1956). The club specialized in publishing illustrated fine-press reprints of literature. Most of the limited editions published by the club were signed by the illustrator, and in some cases, by the book designer or even the author. As of 2012, the LEC said there would be no further publications by the club.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
THOREAU, Henry David. Walden or Life in the Woods. , 1936.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: THOREAU, Henry David. Walden or Life in the Woods. Illustrated with Photographs Taken at Various Seasons at Walden Pond by Edward Steichen. And with an Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. 4to. Orig. cloth-backed decorated boards. Boston: Printed at the Merrymount Press for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1936. Limited to 1500 copies signed by Steichen. Small worn spot at head of spine, else a fine copy. Lacks the slipcase.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 290 pp, 10" H. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering, blue/green patterned paper-covered boards, top edge dark green. Number 1225 in a limited edition of fifteen hundred copies, signed on limitation page by the photographer, Steichen. 16 b&w photographs "Taken at Various Seasons at Walden Pond" - all present. Printed at the Merrymount Press. Lacking the original slipcase & glassine wrapper. Small stain at fore-edge of page 279 on - including the rear pastedown (max size 1" x 3/8"), very light browning in margins of pages and on endpapers, light waviness in the bottom margin of pages 68 to 76, light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block - also at the edges of the boards, light to moderate edge wear to boards, wear at top/bottom edges of spine with some very small tears and tiny chips, spine color has lightly faded from black to dark brown, two very small water marks on the spine, two light tnin scratches on the rear board - one 1" long and one 3"long.
Seller: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Canada
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . . . . Signed limited edition: No. 536 of 1500 copies printed. Large 8vo, hardcover, no dj, as issued. Bound in black quarter-cloth over blue patterned paper-covered boards; lacking the slipcase. SIGNED by photographer Edward Steichen on rear limitation page. Vg condition. Contents crisp & clean, appears unread, no foxing or "thumbing" to pages. Binding & hinges solid with no cracking at endpaper seams. Board edges moderately rubbed, spine ends bumped w/ three tiny nicks to upper spine cloth. xiii, 290 p., illus., 16 leaves of plates.
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
THOREAU, Henry David. WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1936.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in black linen and blue-green paste paper-covered boards. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Steichen. Designed by D. B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. Some foxing to endpapers, mostly at rear, and an occasional text page; spine ends slightly crimped and lightly worn, some rubbing to covers with slight losses of paper, mostly on the front. Very Good, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden or Life in the Woods. The Limited Editions Club, Boston, 1936.
Price: US$499.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original quarter cloth with patterned boards, gilt. #840 of 1500 copies signed by photographer Steichen. Fine but for trace insecting to cloth. In lightly worn slipcase. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden or Life in The Woods. Merry Mount Press, Boston, 1936.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited to 1500 numbered and signed copies of which this is number 1390. Signed by Edward Steichen, who took the photographs of Walden pond included in the book. The slipcase is mended but strong. Fast shipping with free delivery confirmation.
Seller: The Calico Cat Bookshop, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
THOREAU, Henry Davd. WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1936.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto, 290 pages, cloth, clothbacked boards (rubbed), no glassine dj, worn publ's slipcase, inked name of . Laird on free endpaper, short tear at head of spine, waxy stain at heel of slipcase, Copy no. 507 of 1500 copies signed by Steichen, whose photos of Walden Pond beautify the book. {Borst A2.26]. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. Printed at the Merrymount Press.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 25.5 x 18 cm. Sm 4to. 290 pages. Brown cloth spine with decorative blue boards in slipcase with glassine jacket fragments. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the photographer Edward Steichen who's work decorates this volume this being copy number 983. Some light rubbing to the edges of the spine. The slipcase shows shelf wear and one angle has been detached and taped back together.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus. Small 4to. Illustrated with photographs taken at Various Seasons at Walden Pond by Edward Steichen. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. Original 1/2 black cloth over blue patterned boards; top edge stained blue (minor rubbing to bottom edges). Acetate dust jacket. Very good. Lacks slipcase Number 1357 of 1500 numbered copies signed by Steichen on the colophon page. Printed at the Merrymount Press
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Photos by Edward Steichen, 10 x 7.25", black cloth backed patterned boards, 290pp, covers lightly rubbed, spine faded, spine ends bumped, extremities lightly fraying, hinges loose, pp toned at gutters; with an old bookseller's label (Philip C. Duschnes) inside rear cover, in original worn, bumped, tap repaired slipcase with a stained paper label on spine. LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES (this one #991), SIGNED BY EDWARD STEICHEN.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden: Or Life in the Woods. The Limited Editions Club, Boston, 1936.
Price: US$972.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 1500 numbered copies [#620] bound quarter black cloth with decorated paper over boards; gilt lettering to the spine; green topstain, other edges untrimmed. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates from photographs. Some shelfwear to the outer edges of boards and tp the head and heel of the spine; previous owner's plate to the front pastedown, as well as a stamp to the recto of the rear endpage. Outer page edges lightly browned. Signed by Steichen on the limitations page.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
THOREAU, Henry David. WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1936.
Price: US$1062.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in black linen and blue-green paste paper-covered boards. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Steichen. Designed by D. B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. Copy #347 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown with offsetting to the front endpaper; spine ends slightly crimped. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a very short split at the top
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.