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THE MAINE WOODS
de THOREAU, Henry David
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- First
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- Contents clean. Spine sunned, gilt a little dull, and frayed at tips and along edges with a large vertical piece missing but not
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean. Spine sunned, gilt a little dull, and frayed at tips and along edges with a large vertical piece missing but not affecting the lettering. Original plum TR cloth. BAL 20113: 1650 copies printed though Borst A4.1.a states that 1450 copies were printed. True first printing with list of Thoreau's books priced. No catalogue bound into this copy. From the library of John Shepard Keyes with his ownership SIGNATURE in ink on the front fly: "John S. Keyes." Keyes was a close friend and classmate of Henry David Thoreau, just a year or two younger. He was also a fellow suitor of Ellen Sewall, who famously declined Thoreau's marriage proposal. Their friendship was often strained for other reasons; about the same time Thoreau was living in his cabin at Walden Pond, Keyes was seeing his father's will through probate-- the largest estate ever probated in Concord up to that time, and soon after he built a grand home near the town center. Keyes became a prominent citizen of Concord, later serving as a judge. Like Thoreau, Keyes was also friends of the Emerson family and kept a diary that echoed many of Thoreau's views of life. But Keyes was less conflicted about getting on in the world, was politically conservative, and openly admitted his philistine leanings. After Thoreau's death he was interviewed from time to time about his dead friend, and like other Concordians, he usually provided a candid and negative account. For the most extended biographies of Keyes, consult THE CONCORD SOCIAL CIRCLE, and Smith, HISTORICAL GUIDE TO HENRY DAVID THOREAU, pages 212-220 et seq. Also see Thoreau, CORRESPONDENCE, pages 192 and 656, for letters of Thoreau mentioning Keyes and Meltzer & Harding, A THOREAU PROFILE, pages 30-31, for a diary entry by Keyes about Thoreau. Association copies of Thoreau's posthumous books are scarce, and this is an important one.
About THE MAINE WOODS, Dave Foreman, Earth-First eco-warrior/author, has written that it is "Thoreau's finest book, far deeper and more important than WALDEN ... on his two trips into the deep Maine wilderness [Thoreau] had the epiphany that enabled him to realize that 'in wildness is the preservation of the world.' MAINE not WALDEN changed American intellectual history."
About THE MAINE WOODS, Dave Foreman, Earth-First eco-warrior/author, has written that it is "Thoreau's finest book, far deeper and more important than WALDEN ... on his two trips into the deep Maine wilderness [Thoreau] had the epiphany that enabled him to realize that 'in wildness is the preservation of the world.' MAINE not WALDEN changed American intellectual history."
Sinopsis
"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." Henry David Thoreau Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by moonlight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea and moose lips. Taking notes constantly, Thoreau was just as likely to turn his observant eye to the habits and languages of the Abnaki Indians or the arduous life of the logger as he was to the workings of nature. He acutely observed the rivers, lakes, mountains, wolves, moose, and stars in the dark sky. He also told of nights sitting by the campfire, and of meeting men who communicated with each other by writing on the trunks of trees. In The Maine Woods , Thoreau captured a wilder side of America and revealed his own adventurous spirit.
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- Librería
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 015690
- Título
- THE MAINE WOODS
- Autor
- THOREAU, Henry David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Contents clean. Spine sunned, gilt a little dull, and frayed at tips and along edges with a large vertical piece missing but not
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Ticknor & Fields
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1864
- Palabras clave
- First Editions, Natural History, New England, Henry David Thoreau
- Catálogos del vendedor
- 19th Century American Literature; Americana; Association Copy;
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Charles Agvent
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Charles Agvent
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
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