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The Maine Woods.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. 8vo. Original green patterned cloth, stamped in blind, spine title gilt. Condition: Tight copy, internally clean and unspotted, contemporary owner’s signature in pencil to endpaper; cloth at spine ends worn to block, corners exposed, spot of fraying and exposure to at bottom of upper joint. first edition of this naturalist classic, also of unusual interest to anglers. Thoreau’s account of his three trips to an “unchanged” northern wilderness also includes an important reference to the first great American maker of bamboo flyrods H. H. Leonard, who Thoreau encounters working as a sportsman’s guide in the North Woods.