THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1854. 8vo, original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, rear inner hinge and ends of spine repaired, fore-corners a bit worn; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (one of 2000 copies), title vignette of Thoreau's hut, map of Walden Pond (with imprint), 8-page publisher's catalogue dated April 1854 at rear, A VERY RARE PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THOREAU TO THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON on front free endpaper: "T.W. Higginson, with the regards of H.D.T."; with several pencilled marginal annotations and markings and pencilled notes on inside rear cover and facing last ad page regarding the book and Thoreau -- all apparently by Higginson. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), New England man of letters, was a prolific author and editor, best known perhaps for encouraging Emily Dickinson and editing her poetry. He wrote several times on his friend Thoreau and in 1864 and 1865 reviewed The Maine Woods and Cape Cod for the Atlantic Monthly. During the 1850s Higginson was one of the leaders of the radical abolition movement and it is possibly in this context that he was the recipient of this presentation Walden. Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier American 63.

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1854. 8vo, original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, rear inner hinge and ends of spine repaired, fore-corners a bit worn; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (one of 2000 copies), title vignette of Thoreau's hut, map of Walden Pond (with imprint), 8-page publisher's catalogue dated April 1854 at rear, A VERY RARE PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THOREAU TO THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON on front free endpaper: "T.W. Higginson, with the regards of H.D.T."; with several pencilled marginal annotations and markings and pencilled notes on inside rear cover and facing last ad page regarding the book and Thoreau -- all apparently by Higginson. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), New England man of letters, was a prolific author and editor, best known perhaps for encouraging Emily Dickinson and editing her poetry. He wrote several times on his friend Thoreau and in 1864 and 1865 reviewed The Maine Woods and Cape Cod for the Atlantic Monthly. During the 1850s Higginson was one of the leaders of the radical abolition movement and it is possibly in this context that he was the recipient of this presentation Walden. Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier American 63.