Thoreau's Complex Weave: The Writing of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. With the Text of the First Draft. By Linck C. Johnson. University Press of Virginia, 1986, 490 pp. Gray and green cloth hardcover, with gray and green paper dust jacket. Johnson traces the growth of Thoreau's first book from inception to publication, focusing on how the writer constructed it, and discussing the relationship between its design and the overall pattern of his early literary career. This copy has a dust jacket of average age, and the book block has light fox marks on it. The pages are clean, and this is still a good copy.