Male : Essayist, Poet and nature lover. Rebelled against society and lived in a solitary hut at Walden pond, near Concord, cultivating a small plot of land, observing nature and reading and writing (1845-7). Went to prison for one night rather than pay a poll tax to support war and slavery. Died of TB. Only two books published in his lifetime

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Concord, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1817 Date of Death : 1862 Age : 45

Other Work : Teacher

Education : Harvard Univ

1849-1855
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849 James Munroe)
[It sold only 218 copies !]
Offered in 1999 for £9090
(In) Thalatta : A Book for the Seaside (1853 Ticknor, Reed & Fields)
Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854 Ticknor & Fields)
Offered in 1998 for £6250
(1886 Walter Scott, Camelot Classics)
Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)

1856-1870
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860)
Excursions (1863 Ticknor & Fields)
Life without Principle (1863)
The Maine Woods (1864 Ticknor & Fields)
Offered in 1999 for £760
Cape Cod (1865 Ticknor & Fields, Boston)
Letters to Various Persons (1865 Ticknor & Fields)
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866 Ticknor & Fields)

1871-1890
Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881 Houghton Mifflin)
Summer : From the Journal of Henry D Thoreau (1884 HM)
Winter (1888 HM)
Thoreau's Thoughts : Selections from the Writings (1890 Houghton Mifflin)

1891-1900
Autumn : From the Journal of Henry D Thoreau (1892 Houghton Mifflin)
Familiar Letters (1894)
Poems of Nature (1895 Houghton Mifflin/John Lane) - 250
Walden (1897 Houghton Mifflin) - 2 vols. Photogravure illus

1901-1910
On Friendship (1901 Riverside Press, Cambridge) - 500
The Service (1902 Charles Goodspeed, Boston) - 500
Sir Walter Raleigh (1905 Bibliophile Society, Boston) - 489
A Little Book of Nature Themes (1906 Mosher, Portland)
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906 Houghton Mifflin) - 20 vols
Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau (1907 Bibliophile Society, Boston) - 470
Walden, or Life in the Woods (1909 Bibliophile Society, Boston) - 2 vols. 10 printed for W K Bixby

After 1911
Night and Moonlight (1921 Hubert Rutherford Brown, NY) - 400. Florence Ivins
Where I Lived & What I Lived For (1924 Golden Cockerel Press)
- 380 of which 30 signed by Gibbings. Robert Gibbings
The Moon (1927 Houghton Mifflin) - 500
Walden, or Life in the Woods (1927 Chapman & Hall) - E F Daglish
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals (1927 Houghton Mifflin)
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1928 Rollins, New Haven) - 300. Rockwell Kent
Walden or Life in the Woods (1930 Lakeside Press, Chicago) - 1000. Rudolph Ruzicka
Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans (1931 Rudge NY) - 200
Walden, or Life in the Woods (1936 Ltd Eds Club, Boston) - 1500 signed by Edward Steichen
The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau (1958 New York UP)
Consciousness in Concord : The text of Thoreau's hitherto lost Journal (1958 Houghton Mifflin)
Cape Cod (1968 Ltd Eds Club, Portland) - 1500 signed by R J Holden
Civil Disobedience (1969 David Godine, Boston) - 50
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1975 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2000 signed by R J Holden
Walden (1980 Folio Society, London) - Michael Renton

READING
W E Channing : Thoreau - The Poet-Naturalist (1873)
Frank Sanborn : Henry D Thoreau (1882 Houghton Mifflin)
F H Allen : Bibliography of Henry D Thoreau (1908 Boston)
Mark Van Doren : Henry David Thoreau - A Critical Guide (1916 Houghton Mifflin)
Leon Bazalgette : Henry Thoreau - Bachelor of Nature (1924 Harcourt Brace, NY)
Henry S Canby : Thoreau (1939 Houghton Mifflin) - 265 signed
William Condry : Thoreau (1954 London)
Walter Harding : The Days of Henry Thoreau (1965)
Raymond Borst : Henry David Thoreau - A Descriptive Bibliography (1982 Pittsburgh UP)