Cape Cod – Henry David Thoreau 1865 | 1st Edition

$950.00

  • Author: Henry David Thoreau
  • Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1865
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo
  • Attributes: First Edition

First edition. Original dark green diamond-patterned cloth, titles to spine gilt, brown coated endpapers, boards blocked in blind with eight-point cornerpieces and central wreath. Head of spine chipped, tail of spine frayed, few faint spots to rear board. First edition in binding variant A with Thoreau named as the author of Walden on the spine, and cloth type Z, one of several binding styles used on the first edition without precedence. Binding tight, interior clean unmarked.

Cape Cod, a collection of ten essays on the scenery and people of the region, was based on three trips that Thoreau made between 1849 and 1855. Overall a Good or better copy of this rare book.

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Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau is a vivid and contemplative travel narrative that captures the raw beauty and rugged character of Massachusetts’ coastal wilderness. Based on Thoreau’s walking expeditions in the mid-19th century, the book blends keen natural observation with philosophical reflection, chronicling the stark landscapes, shipwrecks, and resilient inhabitants of the Cape. With his trademark reverence for nature and sharp eye for detail, Thoreau describes windswept dunes, treacherous shoals, and the austere lives of fishermen and lighthouse keepers—all while meditating on humanity’s relationship with the untamed forces of the sea. Less known than Walden but equally evocative, Cape Cod offers a timeless portrait of a place where the sublime and the mundane collide, rendered in prose that is both lyrical and unsentimental. A classic of American nature writing.

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