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(THOREAU, HENRY DAVID). HILDEBIDLE, JOHN. Thoreau: A Naturalist's Liberty.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. - 8vo, green cloth (very lightly bumped) titled in gilt within gilt-ruled black rectangle, in dw (very lightly chipped; dw spine lightly soiled). viii, [iv] & 174 pp. Near fine. First edition."Hildebidle examines Thoreau's attitude toward history and science, demonstrating that he manages to use 'secondhand' material while insisting that only firsthand experience has any value....Hildebidle sees Thoreau as represenative of a long-standing American tendency simultaneously to reject and to use the past, and shows how, as naturalist, he brought together science and literary aims...."--From the dw.
Offered for US$ 15.00 by: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. - Book number: 903
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