THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Monroe...1849. 8vo, original chocolate brown cloth, sides blindstamped with a five-rule frame only, spine gilt-lettered, unopened, long split in front outer joint with front cover loosening, ends of spine worn (with partial loss of publisher's imprint at heel); half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, of the author's first book, in the trade binding (BAL's Binding A), with three lines of dropped text at bottom of p. 393 as in all copies. BAL 20104; Borst A1.1.a. | Christie's

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Monroe...1849. 8vo, original chocolate brown cloth, sides blindstamped with a five-rule frame only, spine gilt-lettered, unopened, long split in front outer joint with front cover loosening, ends of spine worn (with partial loss of publisher's imprint at heel); half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, of the author's first book, in the trade binding (BAL's Binding A), with three lines of dropped text at bottom of p. 393 as in all copies. BAL 20104; Borst A1.1.a.

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Monroe...1849. 8vo, original chocolate brown cloth, sides blindstamped with a five-rule frame only, spine gilt-lettered, unopened, long split in front outer joint with front cover loosening, ends of spine worn (with partial loss of publisher's imprint at heel); half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, of the author's first book, in the trade binding (BAL's Binding A), with three lines of dropped text at bottom of p. 393 as in all copies. BAL 20104; Borst A1.1.a.