WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. de Thoreau, Henry David. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby - 1936

Boston: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. 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.. Signed by Photographer.. Limited Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Steichen (signed by), photographs..