Thoreau, Henry David. Walden, or, Life in the Woods. The Bibliophile Society, printed for members only, Boston, 1909.

Price: US$625.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: . . . . Limited edition of 483 copies: new and unabridged edition. Small 4to, hardcover, no dj's. 2 volume set. Vg condition. Bound in quarter vellum paper at spine over brown cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering; each volume housed in a double slipcase - slipcases are not matched (one brown, one red). Volume 1 shows moderate foxing throughout, Volume 2 thoroughly clear and unfoxed; Contents both volumes clean, no markings, no "thumbing" to pages, many page edges still unseparated (therefore unread), bindings & hinges tight; boards & spine vellum quite clean, gilt spine lettering sharp & bright. Volume 1's outer slipcase edge-rubbed w/ bottom panel strip detached; both volumes' outer slipcase's paper spine label browned. xxxii, 208 pp. + 263 pp., illus., tissue-protected frontis. portrait, plates, fascimiles. Volume 1 includes a second title page printed on vellum, as issued with the Society's Holland handmade paper edition of the set.

Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.