THOREAU, HENRY DAVID — Walden, or, Life in the Woods

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1981. Leather. A handsome Easton Press leatherbound edition of Henry David Thoreau's famous memoir of time spent in the woods of Massachusetts in 1845-1847. During this time, the author lived in a small cabin built by himself and from which he made observations about nature and solitude. With attractive wood-engravings by Thomas W. Nason and a frontis portait of Thoreau by Bob Lapsley. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt (AEG). Reddish-brown silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Fine copy: tightly bound and bright but with two smudges to textblock top edge gilding.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); [5], 6-336 pages. Near Fine .