First Edition, First Printing, the ads dated "June 1854" and printed prior to the July 1854 publication of the book. Illustrated with the map of Walden Pond at p. 306, with original ribbed brown cloth lettered in gilt, floral designs and scrollwork, and with the pale yellow endpaper. Now housed in a light brown cloth-covered folding case. This unrestored copy includes newspaper clippings pasted on the inside cover, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th pages (some toning resulting and all shown in the catalog pictures). Some pages have faint moister stains (beginning on page 187). The title page is detached. An exceedingly rare and important true first edition.

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