THOREAU Henry DavidLivre Rare Book
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2005187306Aldéran Aldéran Editions, 2005. In-8 broché, 53 pages. Traduit de l'américain par Patrick Mavery, préface et notes de Eric Lowen. Bon état
RO80178341ADEN. NON DATE. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 275 Pages. 1er plat légerement abimé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1896226505Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1896. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Watson Amelia M. Hardcover; 8vo; 2 volumes. Illustrated throughout with numerous coloured sketches in text. Green cloth with gilt titles and design on spines and upper boards. Top-edge gilt fore-edge rough cut. Red silk ribbons bound in. Gently sunned spines. Bright and clean interiors some foxing of endpapers. Edge of title page of volume one lightly chipped. Charming set. VG/-- <br/> <br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover
186526208Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1865. First edition and printing. 8vo publisher’s original green pebbled cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine embossed in blind on both covers of a wreath within framed boarders. BAL's binding "A" no sequence determined. 6 252 pp. ads dated December 1864. A very good and handsome copy with only light edgewear or evidence of shelving to the tips light and light mellowing internally. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Thoreau occasionally left his beloved woods to visit and write about other places. He went to Cape Cod “Wishing to get a better view than I had yet of the ocean which we are told covered more than two thirds of the globe but of which a man who lives a few mile inland may never see any trace.†<br> Thoreau's account of his meditative beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea. "Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau’s journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses in fishing huts and on isolated farms. He passed his days wandering the beaches where he observed the wide variety of life and death offered up by the ocean. Through these observations Thoreau discovered that the only way to truly know the sea—its depth its wildness and the natural life it contained—was to study it from the shore. Like his most famous work Walden Cape Cod is full of Thoreau’s unique perceptions and precise descriptions. But it is also full of his own joy and wonder at having stumbled across a new frontier so close to home where a man may stand and “put all America behind him.†- Penguin Nature Library Ticknor and Fields hardcover
18541270871854. THOREAU Henry David. Autograph manuscript leaf from Walden. Concord Massachusetts 1854. One leaf measuring eight by ten inches writing in ink on recto and verso window mounted housed in a custom portfolio. $39000.A wonderful item: an original autograph manuscript leaf from Henry David Thoreau's masterpiece Walden including passages from the chapter ""Higher Laws"" where Thoreau discusses his moral ambivalence about fishing and another from the ""Baker's Farm"" chapter that also features fishing.This autograph manuscript leaf contains passages from at least two chapters of Walden. The first paragraph can be found in the ""Baker's Farm"" chapter where at one point Thoreau takes shelter from the weather with an Irish farmer John Field. The passage reads: "" I trust he does not hear this:thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country to catch perch with shiners. With his horizon all his own yet he a poor man born to be poor with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways not to rise in this world he nor his posterity till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels."" This is followed by the text from the beginning of the next chapter ""Higher Laws"" contrasting physical and spiritual existence and part of a later section that continues that same theme but with a focus on fishing: ""As I came home through the woods with my string of fish trailing my pole along when the world had waxed dark I glimpsed a woodchuck dark across my path and felt a strange flush of savage delight and was strongly tempted to seize and devour it raw. The wildest most desolate scenes had become strangely familiar to me. Thus it is I find predominantly in me an instinct to a higher and more spiritual life than the common and also another inclining to a primitive and savage life and I reverence them both alike. I find continually that I cannot fish without falling a little in my own respect. I have tried it again and again. I have skill at ita certain instinct for it which revives from time to time but always when I have doneI feel that it would have been better if I had not fished. I think I am not mistaken. It is a faint intimationyet so are the first streaks of morning. It tempts me because it's a means of having arguments with naturenot only with fishes but with ___ and water and scenery. Which I should not otherwise see under the same aspects "" Math equations in pencil. presumably in another hand upside down at the bottom of the verso.Leaf with loss to some edges just touching text at one point. A very rare leaf from an original Walden manuscript with exceptional content. unknown
1016055005.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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2008RO30323398Gallimard. 2008. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 332 pages. Quelques pages de presse.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
