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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1824-1832. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1909.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Description: Dark green cloth, gold lettering, rubbed, no dj, ex-lib. FER; 25466
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is Volume 2 only, of what was once a larger set. Bound in green cloth. With frontispiece of Madam Emerson. Some light wear at edges. "The extracts from the early journals are not chosen for their merit alone: they show the soil out of which Emerson grew, the atmosphere around, his habits and mental food, his doubts, his steady, earnest purpose, and the things he outgrew. His frankness with himself is seen, and how he granted the floor to the adversary for a fair hearing. Also the ups and downs of the boy?s health appear in the schoolkeeping days, and why, beyond all reasonable hope considering the neglect of the body, he lived to a healthy middle life and old age by his rambling tendencies, by quietness, and bending to the blast which shattered the health of his more unyielding brothers". "Throughout, and increasingly in later years, these are journals, not of incidents and persons, but of thoughts." Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 ? April 27, 1882),who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. "In all my lectures," he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist. In 1867, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.
Seller: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owners inscriptions: Yes as shown Book Condition: Very Good Jacket condition: No jacket Published: 1909 Edition: 1st Pages: 394 Description: "Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century."
Seller: HAWKMOOR BOOKS LTD, WINCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.96 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 542 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
Price: US$42.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and Company Date of Publication: 1909 The first volume only. Total of 10 volumes. Full green cloth, gilt titling, top edge gilt. 394 pages, photogravure frontispiece + 4 plates. Typical Library marks and stamps with discharge. Old library card in back cover from UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO library. Inside front cover is a paste down of The University of Chicago Libraries. Slim dark stain on front Green cover. Top and bottom of spine frayed. Small split at front cover to spine 2 inches long 2/3's down seam. Cracks at front and back covers. One loose page.
Seller: Second Site Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good copy in hardcover with very good minus jacket. Light shelf-wear, small bookseller's sticker on first free endpaper. Jacket has toning to spine and edges with chipping and some light damp-staining on spine. Small piece of tape on spine.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.24 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 394 pages; Physical desc.: 394 p. Notes: Vol. 1 only of a 10 volume set. Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --Diaries. Authors, American--19th century--Diaries. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 394 pages; Physical desc.: 394 p. Notes: Vol. 1 only of a 10 volume set. Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --Diaries. Authors, American--19th century--Diaries. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$87.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcovers. No DJ's. 3 BOOK SET.VOLUMES 1,2, AND 3. Ex-Library with usual markings. Pages are clean and unmarked. Gilt top page edges. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Volume 1 binding loosening slightly but still intact. TITLES: Vol. 1 - 1820-1824, Vol. 2: 1824-1832 and Vol. 3: 1833-1835.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Ten volumes complete, bound in dark green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front covers, top page edges gilt; all volumes clean tight and unmarked save for Christmas gift inscriptions on upper edge of front free endpapers, and volumes III through Vol. X bear the tasteful Art-Deco style bookplate on the front pastedown of Erich Cramer Stern (February 8, 1879 ¿ February 18, 1969), an American politician and lawyer, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All volumes appear to be First printings, with the date at the foot of the title page matching that of the copyright [save for Vol. X, which has no date on the title page but the gift inscription is Christmas 1914, same year as the copyright]. According to BAL, the First printings have the publisher imprint on a separate page after the end of the text, and this is the case for all 10 volumes. The first 9 volumes have the date range only on the spine, while Vol. X has a gilt "X" on the spine in addition to the dates. All in FINE almost As New condition, some partially unopened
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.