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Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition of the author's first book. 413, [3] pp. With terminal advertisement leaf announcing “Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods …”. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown blindstamped cloth. Spine perished, boards edgeworn and detached. Textblock clean and sound. Review of the book tipped in at end on verso of advertisement leaf and facing blank (clipping partly toned). Half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition of the author's first book. 413, [3] pp. With terminal advertisement leaf announcing “Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods …”. 1 vols. 8vo. A notable copy of Thoreau’s first book, largely overlooked when initially published, and now a recognized classic. Emerson famously declined to review his friend’s book; but the present copy makes it clear that some did commit their opinions to print: tipped in at the verso of the announcement for Walden is a 500-word review of the…

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.

True first editions can be identified by the publisher's imprint and the date of 1849.