A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers.
Boston: 1849. 8vo, handsomely rebound in full brown calf, subtle blind stamped design on covers and spine, green spine labels, marbled endpapers. Boston & Cambridge, 1849. First Edition. Fine. The author's first book, published at his own expense in an edition of 1000 copies. Four years after publication, Thoreau wrote in his journal, "For a year or two past my publisher...has been writing...to ask what disposition should be made of the copies a "A Week" still on hand...so I had..... More