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Walden
de Thoreau, Henry David
- Usado
- fair
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Fair/N/A
- Librería
-
Albany, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1883. Second US Edition/Early Printing. Hardcover. Fair/N/A. An early printing of the second edition in green cloth with gilt to type. Fraying to spine ends with just a little loss and rubbing to corners with boards showing at top in spots. Beveled board edges which also show some wear and scuffing, marks and spots to cloth on boards. A little sticker residue with some marking and rippling to ffep and title page which was just holiding on at top and has been reglued. Pages tanned, but otherwise clean and binding still holding.
Sinopsis
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is an American classic. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- LPB006537HT
- Título
- Walden
- Autor
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- N/A
- Edición
- Second US Edition/Early Printing
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1883
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Natural History;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
Albany, California
Sobre Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
