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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Addresses and Lectures. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1903.
Price: US$11.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume I of The Centenary Edition The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Dark blue cloth binding stamped in gold, Top Edge Gilt. Riverside Press, 461pp. 15 pages of pen underlines, most pages with 4 or less underlines, in chapter "The American Scholar". Name blacked out on front endpaper. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 vols. of the Complete 12 volume set: Containing:Essays; First Series, Essays; Second Series, Representative Men, Society & Solitude, Letters & Social Aims, Poems, Lectures/Biographical Sketches, Miscellanies, Natural History of Intellect. W/ biographical intro & notes by Edward Waldo Emerson & a general index. Burgundy cloth with gilt top edge and gilt titles
Seller: ALEXANDER POPE, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$2450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: -04. One of 600 sets hand-numbered and signed by the publisher, with a LEAF of AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT bound at the beginning of Volume One. This set is number 543. Complete in 12 Volumes. In the Publisher's primary binding of brown cloth with paper labels. There is some very minor fraying at the head of the spines of Volumes One, Three, and Four. On Volume Five there is perhaps an eighth of an inch of loss at the head of the spine. The left side of the head of Volume Eleven is bumped, and there is a short snag to the cloth at the head of the spine of Twelve, along with a couple of faint, dime-sized spots of dampstaining. These quibbles aside, the set is in Near Fine condition. Internally, the books are Fine and, seemingly, unopened. With the early ink signature of Horace Walton, 1008 So. 49th St. Phila. Pa., on the front pastedown of Volume One. The manuscript leaf, also in fine condition, is from the journals and is written on both sides with notes that Emerson was to use in the writing of "English Traits".
Seller: Clarel Rare Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Description: The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, original publisherâs cloth with printed paper spine labels, illustrated with numerous mounted photogravures, frontispiece portrait of Emerson to Vol. I with lettered tissue guard. One of 600 numbered copies signed by the publisher and with an original double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one, this is number 515. The manuscript leaf reads in full, "Will anyone question the will of an aristocracy? Not, whilst there is any remainder of the substance in the form. For the name is a verdict. The noble ennoblis. That is his use. Can there be any greater? . two to make and atmosphere. I am acquainted with persons who go attended by this ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come, it is not important what they say. The hospitable soul makes me wiser + bolder by provocation. There are others who have no deference, + who . one of all attributes but material values. As much health + muscle." In near fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emersonâs poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. With a biographical introduction and notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a general index. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903-1904. Autograph Centenary Edition. Limited to 600 numbered copies, signed by the publisher, this being number 20. With an Autograph Manuscript leaf bound into Volume I. Twelve octavo volumes (8 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 220 x 150 mm). Photogravure frontispieces and plates on India paper mounted. Title vignettes on India paper mounted. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco over marbled boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Boards ruled in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Spines slightly faded, otherwise a fine and desirable set. The manuscript is one full sheet of blue paper, folded with manuscript on both sides. Much of the writing has been crossed through with the same hand. The start of the manuscript reads "It was said Virtue in this Age" and it ends with "The badman is alone in the universe." Myerson B19. HBS 68752. $4,500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1903.
Price: US$4700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson 12 volumes including poems lectures biographical sketches letters and his famous essays. Autograph Centenary edition bound in three quarter emerald green morocco leather over green marbled paper. Lovely raised band spines with gilt tooling. Deckled page edges and top page gilt. Illustrated with photographs, Numbered 148 of 600. Each volume in a slipcase. Beautiful set would enrich any library! May require extra shipping due to weight. ; Authograph Centenary Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Elder's Bookstore, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1903.
Price: US$7000.00 + shipping
Description: Autograph Centenary edition with a double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarters contemporary morocco over cloth, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Numerous mounted photogravure illustrations. One of 600 copies. In near fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emersons poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$8200.00 + shipping
Description: The Autograph Centenary edition of Emerson's complete works with an autograph manuscript in his hand and with his notations tipped in. One of six hundred copies additionally signed by the publisher, this is number 576. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with photogravures including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Emerson. Tipped into volume I, the manuscript in Emerson's hand reads in part, "He repeats after Plato the affirmations of real essence. There is not any life in those things which are not eternal life. Life which is not eternal is not life but in a little while perishes nor can To Be be predicated on those things which cease to Be and of those which never cease to be." In near fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emersonâs poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a General Index. 12 + 10 vols. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo, publisher's 3/4 crushed green morocco; gilt spines; t,e,g. Autograph Centenary Edition; No. 329 of 600 sets, signed by publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. BAL 5463. The 12 volumes of the Works are very fine; the spines of the Journals volumes are uniformly faded to tan / golden brown. Bound into Vol. I is a leaf of original manuscript in the hand of Ralph Waldo Emerson (about 28 words, with corrections) on blue lined paper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1903.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, publisher's original three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, illustrated with numerous mounted photogravures. One of 600 numbered copies signed by the publisher, this is number 46. The original manuscript reads, "But whilst race works thus immortally to keep its own, it is resisted by other forces. The Arabs of today are the Arabs of Pharaoh, but the Englishman of today is, on the whole, a very different Person. Civilization is a strong re-agent, and eats away the old traits. It is noticed that each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have a well marked face; the Quakers have, the nuns have. An English man will pick at a dissenter by his manners. Trades and professions. carve their own lines on face and form. This is not easy. It is not easy to find more points of contrast than between the French and English people. Whites and negroes are hardly more unlike." In near fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emersons poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1903.
Price: US$9800.00 + shipping
Description: Autograph Centenary edition with a double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Numerous mounted photogravure illustrations. One of 600 copies. Emerson discovered Pascal in college and was a lifelong admirer of Pascal's wisdom. At 23, he wrote, âIt is the leading idea of Pascalâs Religious Meditations to contrast what is grand & pitiful in human nature.â In 1859 he remarked, âNow & then, rarely comes a stout man like Luther, Montaigne, Pascal, Herbert, who utters a thought or feeling in a virile manner, and it is unforgettable." And in his journals of April-May 1864: "We said, that ours was the recuperative age. Pascal is one of its recoveries, not only the essay on Love, but the pure text of the Pensees." The quotations in this text seem to be all from the Pensees. In fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emersons poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.