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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and other pieces. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1867.

Price: US$19.71 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 205 p. 12x19cm. Bookplate of the Fraser Institute. Class number on spine. Editor's bookbinding slight worn (spine worn). Internally very good condition. code 1115

Seller: Livresse, Gatineau, QC, Canada

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. May- Day and Other Pieces. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1867.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 205p octavo, Fraying at the spine heads, inner hinges cracking, wear to the front top corner, and wearing along the front gutter. Top edge gilt, contents very good

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1867.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 205p, 8vo. A good copy, with gilt fern on front board. Top edge of text block gilt. Inner hinges cracked but holding, front outer hinge starting, small gouge in top edge of textblock affecting first 15-20 pages.

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1867.

Price: US$108.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bound in half calf with spine elaborately ornamented in gilt with gilt lettering, marbled paper on boards, marbled endpapers, and marbled edges. Moderate wear at extremities, otherwise fine. From the library of Charles H. Foster with his signature on half title.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.. May-day, and Other Pieces.. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867, 1867.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Original reddish-brown cloth, binding A (Myerson, A28.1.a) There were 2000 copies in the first printing. Some chips to the spine ends. A Very Good copy.

Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Letters and Social Aims. James R. Osgood, Boston, 1867.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: May-Day and Other Pieces by Ralph Waldo Emersion. First edition in reddish-brown cloth. Gilt top edge. Publisher: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1867. 205 pages. First edition with “1” and triangle on the half-title page. Cambridge: Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co." on page 205. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean and bright. 5 x 7 ¼ inches. BAL 5250. Inventory #23-022. Price: $500.

Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.

Emerson, ralph Waldo. May Day and Other Pieces. Ticknor & Fields, 1867.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Spine has been nicely repaired, but still dulled. A remarkable copy inasmuch as it contains an autograph letter signed by Emerson to Mrs. Fields which is 2 pages long and dated 3 May, but no year. Also there is a 1897 autograph letter of Annie Fields to a Katherine sending her this volume along with the letter. Additionally inside the front cover is affixed the calling card of "Mrs. R. W. Emerson".

Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces.. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1867.

Price: US$7200.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, first issue of this collection of Emerson's later poems. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and botanical emblem to the front panel, top edge gilt. Signed by Emerson on the title page, "R.W. Emerson." In very good condition with rubbing to the crown of the spine and minor chipping to the front free endpaper. Rare and desirable. American essayist, lecturer, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, disseminating the tenets of transcendentalism through dozens of published essays and more than 1500 public lectures. In addition to his many important contributions to literature including 'Walden' and 'Nature', he was instrumental in facilitating the publication of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' in 1855 and, in 1862, delivered his best friend and protege, Henry David Thoreau's eulogy. Published when Emerson's health was beginning to decline, May-Day and other Stories includes poems inspired by Emerson's 1858 venture into the wilderness of the Adirondacks to connect with nature among others.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. May-day and other pieces. Insc. to Susan B. Jackson, wife of Charles T. Jackson. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1867.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Description: Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-82). May-day and other pieces. iv, 205pp. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 177 x 120 mm. Original cloth, gilt-stamped on the spine and front cover, top edges gilt, spine darkened, some soiling, small splits in hinges but sound. Light toning but very good. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Emerson on the front flyleaf to Susan B. Jackson, wife of Charles T. Jackson (1805-88): "Susan Jackson from R. W. Emerson 1 May, 1867." First Edition of Emerson's second and final collection of poetry. "Emerson collected his verse into two major volumes, both published at the urging of his admirers and after his enshrinement as an important literary figure . . . [May-Day] contains a substantial number of important texts, among them ‘Brahma,' ‘Days,' ‘Voluntaries,' and ‘Terminus'" (Morris, pp. 219-220). Emerson inscribed this copy to Susan Jackson, wife of his brother-in-law Charles T. Jackson, famous in his own right as the discoverer of ether anesthesia. S. Morris, "‘Metre-making' arguments: Emerson's poems," in J. Porte and S. Morris, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, pp. 218-242. .

Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces. , 1867.

Price: US$8250.00 + shipping

Description: EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces. Original gilt-pictorial white linen, T.e.g. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First edition. BAL 5250. Myerson A28.1.a. One of approximately 100 copies in the gift binding. Presentation inscription from the author: "Edward Atkinson, Esq. from R.W. Emerson, May 1867." Atkinson was an industrialist, insurance executive, and advocate for various social. Light soiling to cloth, wear to head of spine, else very good.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1867.

Price: US$10625.00 + shipping

Description: Original gilt-decorated white linen, the gift binding, one of only 100 copies bound thus from a total edition of 2000. Both BAL 5250 and Myerson A28.1.a note that the earliest inscribed copies are dated 1 May 1867, May Day. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author as "R. W. Emerson" to Mrs. Anna C. Lowell on 1 May 1867 on the first blank. Anna Cabot Lowell was the author of THEORY OF TEACHING, THE ELEMENTS OF ASTRONOMY, and several books for children. A few pages unopened. Spine slightly darkened with minor wear to the tips. Near Fine and scarce

Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.

EMERSON Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces. , 1867.

Price: US$16000.00 + shipping

Description: "EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $16,000.First edition, presentation copy, of Emerson's second volume of poems, inscribed in the year of publication to his close friend and trusted adviser: "Abel Adams from R.W. Emerson. 1 May, 1867."May-Day, Emerson's second volume of poetry, followed his highly successful Poems (1946). "The two volumes established his reputation as a major American poet" (Britannica). "Emerson had always thought verse to be the most perfect mode of utterance, and he had always referred to himself as a poet. Now he offered evidence whereby he might be judged. The judgement has taken some time to become mature, but it is no longer to be doubted that in a few of his pieces he reached a mark which only Whitman, Poe, and Emily Dickinson reached in America during the 19th century It is an intellectual poetry that he writes It is the work of a passionate intellect saturated in Wordsworth, Shakespeare, and the lyric masters of the 17th century" (ANB). Myerson A.28.1.a (listing this as the "first American edition" with no editions preceding and the British edition following). BAL 5250. This copy is inscribed by Emerson to Abel Adams, one of Emerson's closest friends. "At the time of his first marriage and during the few years of his ministry in Boston, Mr. Emerson and his young wife found a home in Chardon Street with his parishioner, Mr. Abel Adams, a merchant of integrity and success. All through his life Mr. Adams was a valued and helpful friend and adviser" (Rusk, The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 93, note 1). Not only was Adams Emerson's financial adviser for many years, but when he steered Emerson towards a bad investment in railroad stock, he assumed the college expenses of Emerson's son. He also included the Emerson family in his will. After Adams' death, Emerson wrote that Adams was: "[o]ne of the best of my friends, whose hospitable house was always open to me by day or night for so many years I had given him, first and last, a good deal of trouble, in his counsels & anxieties about my different pieces of property which he looked after We cannot love him better than we did, but it is certain that in this house, when the ear hearth of him then it shall bless him." Ex-libris Faulkner Hospital.Shallow dampstain to marginal edge of text block, expert restoration to joints, spine ends and extremities of binding. A very good copy."

Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.