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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00326 Author/Creator: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Book signed Date: 1849 Pagination: 413 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm Order a Copy

First edition printing in original brown pebble cloth. Printed by James Munroe & Co., Boston; New York : George P. Putnam; Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blackiston; London : John Chapman, 1849. Based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire. Book is inscribed on first blank plate, "To Starr King/ from his friend William L. Aeger/ Jan 1859." Also signed in pencil on title page by Edith K. Davis, possibly at a later date.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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