Description
The limited edition of Thoreau: Two Fragments from the Journals by Henry David Thoreau, edited with a preface by Alexander C. Kern.
Sixteenmo, [19pp], [colophon], [3]. Original brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Printed in red and black, with a full-page wood engraving by John Roy. Housed in the publisher’s matching brown cardboard slipcase. One of 220 copies printed by the Windhover Press at the University of Iowa, stated on the limitation page. (Borst A36.1)
The first printing of two Thoreau journal fragments discovered among Thoreau materials at the Huntington Library, issued as an early Windhover Press imprint under Kim Merker.
