Books

New and Revised Edition (the first Ticknor and Fields printing, but second edition overall). Original purple cloth, gilt lettering at spine, octavo. Thoreau's first book. BAL 20118, 1330 copies printed. An attractive Very Good or better example, cloth modestly faded at spine, but spine ends and corner cloth intact, inner and outer hinges firm.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is a book by the American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. In it, Thoreau recounts a boating trip he took with his brother John from Concord, Massachusetts to the mountains of New Hampshire. It blends travel writing with nature observations and philosophical reflections inspired by the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was Thoreau's friend and mentor.