Thoreau as Romantic Naturalist: His Shifting Stance Toward Nature
Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Cy & Roddy, from Jim, the New Year, 1976." Uncommon signed. Also laid in is a one-page handwritten signed letter (ALS) dated 1976 from the author to the the recipients conveying the book (and bemoaning "that I let a few misprints through"), as well as an invitation from the year before to the author's wedding. James McIntosh was a professor of English and American Culture at the University of Michigan with a focus on the transcendentalists and early American literature. This is his first book, which compares Thoreau to Goethe and Wordsworth and examines their naturalist tendencies. A very good book in red cloth with rubbing to edges and light bumping to corners; in a good jacket with a sunned spine, wear to spine ends and corners, and some wrinkling/faint dampstaining to lower edge of rear panel. The letter is near fine, folded twice, and it has a paperclip which has left a rust mark also on the FFEP and the wedding invite. Very good / Good. Item #1137
ISBN: 9780801408076
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