Thoreau, Henry David; Daglish, Eric Fitch [Woodcuts]

WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS [Alain Locke's Copy]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Limited Edition: 1/520 Copies. Octavo, vii, 289 pages, 16 leaves of plates. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's quarter buckram with painted paper boards. In publisher's cardboard slipcase in Fair condition with spine and lower edge detached and moderate rubbing and wear. Very light shelfwear overall. Alain Locke's copy, with his ownership signature to the front free end paper, dated 1929 and offset onto front pastedown, his bookplate (by Harlem Renaissance painter Aaron Douglas of an art deco depiction of an African woman’s face set in front of a sunburst) affixed to the front pastedown, and Howard University Libraries presentation bookplate to the front free end paper. Tipped-in note on the second rear endpaper “For Alain Locke - affectionately, A. Rud.......”. "Of this edition five hundred and twenty copies have been printed for the United States of America, of which five hundred are for sale.". Shelved in Case 1.

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NOTES

Alain Locke was the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance and is frequently included in listings of the most influential African Americans.;

Walden is a series of 18 essays published in 1854 by Henry David Thoreau. It is an integral work of Transcendentalism, serving as a philosophical treatise on spiritual discovery, self-reliance, and individualism, as well as nature writing. It is considered Thoreau’s masterwork.