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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Heritage Press, NY, 1934.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Reprinted from the beautiful Limited Editions Club edition created by John Henry Nash. Large quarto in linen backed green marbled paper boards. All textblock edges red. A bright, fine, unmarked copy housed in the publisher's slipcase. See photos. [No International shipping on this item]
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good copy with slight fading at spine and spotting to top edge of text; bound in tan linen over blue boards, paper spine label; good slipcase with minor wear and fading. Copy # 1083 of 1500 printed copies signed by printer by John Henry Nash.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$47.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . . . . ltd edition, # 170 of 1500 copies, printed and signed by John Henry Nash, San Francisco. Folio, hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Several small old tape residue marks to front endpapers; Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. Original slipcase present, though barely holding together.
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. x, 262, [1] pp. Limited edition, numbered 667 of 1500 copies, signed by the printer under the colophon. Backed in linen with printed paper spine label and blue paper over boards. Printed in black Cloister Lightface type with red shoulder notes. A fairly bright copy with limited shelfwear including some spotting to the spine and a bumped bottom corner on the front boards; contents are clean but for some very occasional light spotting; the publisher issued slipcase is worn, sunned, and stained and the spine piece, while present, is separated. The slipcase is often found battered when present. Nevertheless, a stately edition of Emerson's essays designed and printed by one of the country's foremost printers. Bookplate of Frederick Hyde on the front pastedown. Quatro-Millenary 60; Ransom 60.
Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 262 [1] pp. Folio, publisher's quarter cloth with printed paper label in red and black on spine, in publisher's slipcase. First edition: No. 1295 of 1500 copies, signed by John Henry Nash. Corner of the front free endpaper creased; clean, tight, unworn and sound in a sunned slipcase with some splitting starting along the joints.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Limited Editions Club, San Francisco, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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"
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: oversized,dark blue paper boards w/ tan cloth spine; black & red printed title plate. book x, 262 pgs. Pages remain bright with occasional smudges or darkened, foxing to edges. This is copy 854 of 1500 signed by the printer, John Henry Nash. No slipcase. VG (scuffs, smudges & wear to boards. corners rubbed to boards. cloth spine darkened; rubbing & fraying to ends.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 262 [1] pp. Folio, publisher's quarter cloth with printed paper label in red and black on spine, in partial publisher's slipcase. First edition: No. 1232 of 1500 copies, signed by John Henry Nash. A clean, tight, unworn, sound copy with very slight tanning to the spine and printed paper label on the spine. The slipcase is lacking the long fore-edge side, and is sunned.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Limited Editions Club: 1934. Large quarto. Hardcover lacking the slipcase. Limited edition: this is copy number1031 of 1500 printed and signed by John Henry Nash. Cloth backed spine with paper boards. Top half inch of the front and back board is sunned. Small piece missing from the paste down label on the spine. A lovely copy with a secure binding and bright text block. Book is in very good condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. .An imprint of George Macy Companies, Ltd., Heritage Press was founded in 1935. The Press printed more affordable classic volumes that were previously published by Macy's Limited Editions Club and covered a broad range of topics primarily within the Western canon. In addition to Macy, directors of the Heritage Press included Cedric Crowell, General Manager of the Doubleday Bookshops; Frank L. Magel, head of Putnam Bookstores in New York; and A. Koch, head of Brentano Stores in New York. Though many of Macy's other imprints, including The Heritage Club, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, and The Junior Heritage Club, were sold by subscription only, Heritage Press editions were sold through bookstores. Macy combined his publishing enterprises in 1944, though each imprint maintained its specific target audience. The archives of the George Macy Companies, including both the Limited Editions Club and The Heritage Press, were purchased by the Ransom Center in 1970. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the printer John Henry Nash on the limitation page. Number 316 of an edition of 1500. Some soiling to spine. Slipcase has some rubbing and wear to edges, small tears at corners. Oversize. Emerson's Essays, First and Second Series. Bookplate on front endpaper.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: San Francisco: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Quarter cloth, printed paper label, and paper boards, 262 pages, in a paper slipcase, printed paper label. Printed by John Henry Nash and signed by him, number 143 of 1500. A large and heavy book, 14 x 9 1/2 inches. Both the 1841 "Essays" and the 1844 "Essays Second Series" are given here. A few tiny abrasions on the front of the slipcase, one on the back - the volume and slipcase are in Fine condition.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: One of 1500, Number 41, Printed from Cloister Lightface type. 1 vols. Folio. Linen backed boards. near fine. Lacking slipcase One of 1500, Number 41, Printed from Cloister Lightface type.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original natural linen cloth and blue paper over boards; quarto; x, 262 pp. Printed paper spine label. This copy signed by John Henry Nash in the colophon, un-numbered, but with "Printer's Copy" penned in place. Ex libris Robert G. Sproul (1891-1975), president of the University of California from 1938-1958, with his tasteful bookplate on front pastedown.
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$130.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in Cream cloth over blue paper covered boards, #1222, in slipcase. Book is near fine, case is solid but unevenly sunned with chips at the corners. This copy is bound and signed on the colophon by John Henry Nash.
Seller: Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI, Warsaw, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: "SAMPLES" A BOOK CONTAINING FINE ILLUSTRATIONS AND FINE PAGES FROM THE BOOKS TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB IN ITS SIXTH SERIES, Limited Editions Club, 1934, first edition, an advance look at the books to be published in 1934, near fine in spiral bound wraps with fine contents consisting of Hervey Allens preface and the title pages, two pages of text and one page of production details for the 1934 publications of: THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON; A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE BEING A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS by Charles Dickens with a full color illustration by Gordon Ross); GREEN MANSIONS - A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST by W.H. Hudson (with a full color illustration by Edward A. Wilson); THE CANTERBURY TALES by Geoffrey Chaucer; SLOVENLY PETER (DER STRUWWELPETER) by Heinrich Hoffman translated by Mark Twain with 3 full color illustrations by Fritz Kredel); UTOPIA written in Latin by Sir Thomas More and done into English by Ralph Robynson; THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE by Lewis Carroll (with 2 illustrations by John Tenniel); THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY GENTLEMAN by Laurence Sterne ( with a 2 color illustration by T.M. Cleland); TYPEE - A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS by Herman Melville (with 2 full color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias); THE VOICE OF THE CITY AND OTHER STORIES by O. Henry (with 2 full color illustrations by George Grosz); THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES by Nathaniel Hawthorne (with 2 full color illustrations by Valenti Angel) and ULYSSES by James Joyce with one illustration by Henri Matisse).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Limited Editions Club, San Francisco, 1934.
Price: US$156.30 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays of.With Critical Introduction by Edward F. O'Day. , 1934.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. The Essays of.With Critical Introduction by Edward F. O'Day. Small folio. Orig. cloth-backed boards with paper label, in publisher's box. San Francisco: Newly Imprinted for The Limited Editions Club by John Henry Nash, 1934. One of 1500 copies. Signed by Nash. A fine copy in a soiled and somewhat worn box.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original decorated boards, very good with visible fade to front cover and lesser fade to rear cover. Printed lables to spine still intact and content inside neat and complete.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Limited Editions Club, San Francisco, 1934.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. , 1934.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. With critical introduction by Edward F. O'Day. The First Series, MDCCCXLI, and the Second Series, MDCCCXLIV, in one volume. San Francisco: Now newly imprinted for the Limited Editions Club by John Henry Nash, 1934. Issued in a numbered edition of 1,500, this copy is unnumbered and out-of-series. However, it is identified as the printer's copy on the colophon, where it is also signed by John Henry Nash. Nash in turn presented this volume to John "Jack" H. Neblett, who did the presswork on this edition, in an ink inscription on the front pastedown that is dated August 24th, 1934 - which is three months before the copyright date. (Myerson A 10.42.a and A 16.33.a). Folio, 13.5 x 9 inches, buckram-backed blue paper-covered boards with a red and black printed paper spine label. Lightly sunned at spine, else fine. Housed in a worn publisher's slipcase (blue paper-covered boards with a red and black printed paper label on one side) that is sunned and split at the back panel.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.