Henry David Thoreau

American poet, essayist, philosopher, naturalist and pacifist Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) is perhaps best known for Walden, or Life in the Woods written during his stay on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s property outside Concord, MA. Among his other well-known works are Civil Disobedience and The Maine Woods.



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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.


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