EMERSON, RALPH WALDO

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The First Series and the Second Series

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1975. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full light brown leather, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering or decoration in each compartment, intricate gilt decoration on both covers, red moire silk endpapers, a. e. g, printed on archival paper, silk ribbon marker bound in, Smyth sewn, and with concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. Illustrated with specially commissioned color frontispiece portrait. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series. Color Frontispiece Portrait. 4to 11" - 13" tall. x, 262 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 18404

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: Literature; Easton Press; Poetry; Prose; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Essays; Philosophy; Transcendentalism; Illustrated Books Essays Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

San Francisco, Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Folio (9" x 13-1/2") bound in cloth-backed blue paper boards. Contains both the First and the Second Series of Emerson's masterful essays with a critical introduction By Edward F. O'Day. Copy #7 of 1500 beautifully designed, printed in red and black, and bound by John Henry Nash and SIGNED by him on the colophon page. A beautiful presentation of these classic essays. Scarce Monthly Letter laid in. Spine a little darkened. Near Fine in a Fair slipcase lacking the backstrip .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 018218

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, John Henry Nash, Limited Editions Club, 19th Century Literature, Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th Century American Literature Signed Literature: American 19th Century American Literature Limited Editions Club

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

San Francisco, Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Folio (9" x 13-1/2") bound in cloth-backed blue paper boards. Contains both the First and the Second Series of Emerson's masterful essays with a critical introduction By Edward F. O'Day. Copy #432 of 1500 beautifully designed, printed in red and black, and bound by John Henry Nash and SIGNED by him on the colophon page. A beautiful presentation of these classic essays. Upper corners slightly bumped. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 018960

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, John Henry Nash, Limited Editions Club, 19th Century Literature, Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th Century American Literature Signed Literature: American 19th Century American Literature Limited Editions Club

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo

Essays: With Essays: Second Series

Boston, James Munroe, 1841 & 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. First Editions of Emerson's two essential collections of essays, each uniformly bound in later 3/4 brown morocco leather and boards with gilt rules, gilt-lettered spines with five raised bands, top edges gilt. Half-title in first volume, second volume bound without advertisements. One of the defining texts of American Transcendentalism. BAL 5189 and BAL 5198; GROLIER AMERICAN 47: "In effect a single book.. Timeless, and without a trace of 'dating'"; MYERSON A10.1.a and A16.1.a-b. Tasteful bookplate on each front pastedown; somewhat faint dampstain to preliminaries and first 10 pages of the second volume. Near Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 019803

Catalogue: 19th Century American Literature

Keywords: Fine Binding, High Spots, 19th Century American Literature, Gift Ideas, Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th Century Literature, Transcendentalism Literature: American 19th Century American Literature Transcendentalism 19th Century Literature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

San Francisco, Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 262p. #277 OF 1550 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PRINTER, JOHN HENRY NASH. An oversize hardcover book with a beige cloth spine. Corners and edges wearing through, and spine label lightly chafed. Very small and faint stain in the bottom corner of the front cover. Otherwise clean and tight. Lacks the slipcase. Good condition. The first and second series in one volume. Includes a critical introduction by Edward F. O'Day, and comes with a printed slip from the publisher. Measures approx. 13.75" x 9.3. Good .

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Book number: 181141

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays

NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1920. Hardcover, rebound in half leather with marbled boards. Ex-seminary library copy. Old paper label on spine, name stamped on title page, otherwise a clean, tight book in good condition. Second series. .

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Book number: 28278

Keywords: literary

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.

Essays: First & Second Series.

Franklin Center:: Franklin Library, 1981. Hardcover. Limited edition ("The 100 Greatest Books of All Time"). Octavo, fully bound in brown leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along the spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine. ; 400 pages. Near Fine . International orders are billed at cost: . 00 for a book of average size and weight, more for oversize or heavier volumes

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Book number: 100784

Catalogue: General Nonfiction IV

Keywords: Essays

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Norwalk:: Easton Press, 1979. Hardcover. ISBN: 1121148441. The First and Second Series in one volume. Critical introduction by Edward F. O'Day. Collector's edition ("The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written"). Quarto, fully bound in brown leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along the spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon book mark. Previous owner's book-plate on verso of front free endpaper, else near fine. ; 262 pages. Near Fine . International orders are billed at cost: . 00 for a book of average size and weight, more for oversize or heavier volumes

Grendel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 101009

Catalogue: General Nonfiction IV

Keywords: 1121148441 Essays

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); G.F. Maine; DeLancey Ferguson (Intro.)

Essays and Poems

London & Glasgow, Collins, 1962. Card Covers. pp. 510. 12mo. Publisher's pebbled navy-blue stiff cloth covers with gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine. Black-and-white illustrated portrait frontispiece of Emerson, illustrated endpapers. Remarkably well-preserved: bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine. .

Black’s Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional seller

Book number: 6709

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: poems; poetry; english literature; history

Emerson, Ralph Waldo & Edward F. O'Day

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Easton Press 1980, Reprint, Leather_Bound. . 1121148441 Full brown leather binding, all edges gilt, silk marker ribbon, five raised spine bands. Silk moire endpapers.; 12 X 8.8 X 1.2 inches; 262 pages. Near Fine.

Books On The BoulevardProfessional seller

Book number: 63738

Catalogue: Literature

"Emerson, Ralph Waldo"

"Essays and Representative Men"

"Collins Clear-Type Press Library of Classics", "hardcover, klein formaat, stofomslag beschadigd (scheurtjes)". .

Boekhandel Louis TinnerProfessional seller

Book number: 204266761

Catalogue: filosofie

EMERSON RALPH WALDO

Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1940. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers / gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Spine title are faded, and the ends are bumped. Undated (1940s) and fore edge is deckled. Foxing to the back end paper and paste down. Text clean and binding tight. "Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own. " His celebrated essays--the twelve published in "Essays: First Series" (1841) and eight in "Essays: Second Series" (1844) --are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication. " ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Bytown BookeryProfessional seller

Book number: 2044

Catalogue: Literature, Essays

Keywords: Essays Fiction Classics

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First and Second Series, and Nature

London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1910. Leather. 2 vols. 288p; 279p. A set of two small hardcover books bound in full blue leather with gilt-decorated spines. Features gilt foredges and marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles. Near-fine condition, with the spines lightly rubbed, but the text unmarked and bindings tight. Clean and attractive volumes, presented here in a marbled slipcase, which is scuffed at the corners but still sturdy. Volume I is a 1910 printing, and volume II is a 1905 printing. Measures approx. 6.2" x 4" in the slipcase. .

Kubik Fine Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 177064

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First and Second Series

Mount Vernon, The Peter Pauper Press. Leather. 314p. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 burgundy leather with patterned boards and five raised bands on the spine. Very good condition. Spine is faded and endpapers are foxed. Owner's bookplate inside front cover, but otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated with woodcuts by Hans Alexander Mueller. Undated vintage printing, ca. 1950. Very Good .

Kubik Fine Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 193360

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO

Essays (First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume)

NY: A. L. Burt, c. 1919. Reprint. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. Former owner's name and date (3/24/1919) on ffep, small old bookseller's label on fep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. The Home Library Series. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. iv, 461 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 29604

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson Literature American Literature Novels, Poetry & Literature Philosophy & Social Sciences Essays