Thoreau: The Poet Naturalist

William Ellery Channing

Boston, 1873

Minor shelf wear else a Fine copy of William Ellery Channing's 1873 biography of Henry David Thoreau. Contemporary Thoreau article clippings circa 1878 and 1884 are pasted on the front pastedown. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies – rare in this condition – doesn’t appear in any records until 1984.

Channing was a close friend of Thoreau, Emerson, Alcott, and the rest of the Transcendentalist gang. The book contains his first hand accounts of HDT and previously unpublished portions of Thoreau's journals.

Thoreau: The Poet Naturalist - a rare HDT piece

$675.00