Content: Copy 1: Publisher's advertisements dated May, '854; 8 p. bound at end; in original brown cloth; with autograph of E.A. Duyckinck, Aug. 1856; Duyckinck Collection
Content: Copy 2: In original brown cloth, in slipcase; without publisher's advertisements; with autograph of M. Conant
Content: Copy 3: In original brown cloth, in slipcase; without publisher's advertisements; plan of Walden Pond faces p. 306 instead of p. 307, as indicated in binding instructions; iwth bookplate of William Harris Arnold; with autographs of J.R. Lowell, Elmwood, 1875, andBrooks Atkinson, 1926
Content: Title vignette (Thoreau's hut at Walden pond); the plan is of Walden Pond, 1846; signed: Baker Andrew
Content: First edition. "The lines beginning ʻLight-winged smoke, Icarian bird' (p. 271) were published in the Dial, for April, 1843, under the title of ʻSmoke', but nothing else in the book appears ever to have been printed before."--F. H. Allen, A bibl. of H. D. Thoreau, 1908.
Content: First impression. Cf. Harding, W.R. A centennial check-list of the editions of Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Charlottesville, Va., 1954, p. ix-x.
Content: "Complemental verses" by T. Carew; p. 87.
Content: Publisher's advertisements dated May, [1]854; 8 p. bound at end.
