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Emerson's Complete Works
by [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]
- Used
- Condition
- Overall very good, with rubbing to leather on all volumes, one volume with a leather panel separating from spine with loss, cont
- Seller
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Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1884. Overall very good, with rubbing to leather on all volumes, one volume with a leather panel separating from spine with loss, contents clean throughout and with both frontispiece portraits present.. The Riverside edition, new and revised. Complete in 11 volumes as issued (a twelfth volume was issued years later in 1893). Uniformly bound in pebbled half leather over marbled boards, top edges gilt. Cooke, pgs. 161-66.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 212
- Title
- Emerson's Complete Works
- Author
- [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]
- Book Condition
- Used - Overall very good, with rubbing to leather on all volumes, one volume with a leather panel separating from spine with loss, cont
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1884
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2012
Haddonfield, New Jersey
About Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB
Bookseller of 18th and 19th century British and American literature, Gothic Revival, architecture, street literature, chapbooks, private press books, focusing on the unpopular, the obscure, and the forgotten. We also handle commonplace books, friendship albums, scrap books and manuscripts.
Glossary
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Marbled boards
- ...
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