 [ Large Image ] | A Button Intercepts the Light and Casts a Shadow Henry David Thoreau 2022 / Essay / $20.00 Fine / 8 pp Edition is out of print Sometime after the wreck of the steamship Elizabeth on July 19, 1850, Henry David Thoreau travelled to Fire Island, New York, to investigate the drowning of the transcendentalist writer and editor Margaret Fuller and her husband, the Marquis Giovanni Angelo Ossoli. This short passage from Thoreau’s journal chronicles his reaction to the tragedy and records his call to live life fully: “If you can drive a nail and have any nails to drive, drive them.” This is item number five in the ‘Henry’ series. This book was typeset in Linotype Fairfield and printed letterpress on Arches Johannot mouldmade paper in black and grey. Bound with a three-hole stitch in a black Saint Armand Canal paper printed in grey and transparent white. Comes in a black paper portfolio. Octavo format. Limited edition of 50 copies. | Other Books by this Author |  | Shoe-strings Henry David Thoreau 2023 / Essay / $25.00 CAN Fine / 8 pp |  | Man is Altogether Too Much Insisted On Henry David Thoreau 2021 / / $25.00 CAN Fine / 8 pp |  | The Library a Wilderness Henry David Thoreau 2021 / Journal excerpts / $60.00 CAN Fine / 16 pp |  | Survey of a Swamp Henry David Thoreau 2019 / Essay / $25.00 CAN Fine / 8 pp |  | Still Deep and Sweet: Henry David Thoreau on Maple Sugaring Henry David Thoreau 2019 / Essay / $70.00 CAN Fine / 32 pp |  | The Dream of the Toad Henry David Thoreau 2017 / Essay / $25.00 CAN Fine / 12 pp |  | Walking Henry David Thoreau 2009 / Essay / $150.00 CAN 9781554470495 / Fine / 96 pp |
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