Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 155)

xxiv, 732, [10] pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped emblem on front board. Thoreau's classic on nature and independence, together with several other of his works. Edited, with an introduction, by Brooks Atkinson, foreword by Townsend Scudder. CONTENTS: Foreword; Introduction; Walden; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Cape Cod; The Allegash and East Branch; Walking; Civil Disobedience; Slavery in Massachusetts; A Plea for Captain John Brown; Life Without Principle.