A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

207, [9] pp. 8vo. A special edition of Thoreau's famous work, issued as part of Westvaco's Christmas series, with a foreword by Jean A. Bradnick written specially for this edition, and illustrations reproduced from period engravings. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is a book by Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1849. The book is ostensibly the narrative of a boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire and back Thoreau had taken with his brother John in 1839. As John had died from tetanus in 1842, Thoreau wrote the book as a tribute to his memory."