Essays
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Essays
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
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- 1841
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East Woodstock, Connecticut, USA
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£4,047.50
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Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841. First Edition, binding state D (no priority). Original brown ribbed cloth, gilt lettering at spine. On Grolier list of one hundred most influential books, includes his most famous essay, Self-Reliance. Author George Van Santvoord's copy with his bookplate and 1842 ownership signature at front endpaper. Van Santvoord wrote law books including 'Sketches of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays: First and Second Series Complete in Two Volumes
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Chanute, Kansas, USA
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£16.19
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New York: A. L. Burt Company No date, though circa early twentieth century. Complete in two volumes as published. Half leather over spine and corners, and marbled paper over boards. Raised spine bands. Gilt stamped lettering. Covers are scuffed and rubbed, mostly along edges and on leather spine cover. Leather is a little chipped… Read more about this item Item Price
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ESSAYS: SECOND SERIES
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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- First Edition
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- 1844
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- Hardcover
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Rockville, Maryland, USA
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£323.80
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Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, [i-iv], 1-256, 259-313, blank, 314, 2 pp advertisements. In Fair condition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt text on spine and blindstamped ornament on both covers. Boards have moderate rubbing to corners, chipping to spine edges, and two small holes on front joint. Binding loose. Textblock has light age… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1841
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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£2,428.50
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Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Finely bound in early 20th-century full leather, spine heavily gilt decorated and with raised bands, wide turn-ins with dentelle. Near Fine with rubbing to joints, previous owner bookplate to front pastedown and several marginal marks. Item Price
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Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- 1920
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BATH, Somerset, GBR
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£120.00
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A nicely bound collection of the first and second series of the essays of the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. In a signed binding by Ramage London. A collection of the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, containing both the first and second… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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- Used - Good-
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- ca, 1900
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Olympia, Washington, USA
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£18.42
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A two-violume set, with ten essays in each volume. Cover has marbled paper and leather at the corners and the spine. Most of the wear is to the leather, which is now well over 100 years old. Pictured is a split in the leather along the spine hinge at the top rear of Volume I. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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ESSAYS: First and Second Series, and NATURE
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- 1910
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Dayton, Ohio, USA
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£202.38
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London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1910. Leather. 2 vols. 288p; 279p. A set of two small hardcover books bound in full blue leather with gilt-decorated spines. Features gilt foredges and marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles. Near-fine condition, with the spines lightly rubbed, but the text unmarked and bindings tight. Clean and attractive volumes, presented here in a marbled slipcase,… Read more about this item Item Price
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ESSAYS: with ESSAYS: SECOND SERIES
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
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- Used - Tasteful bookplate on each front pastedown; somewhat faint dampstain to preliminaries and first 10 pages of the second volume. N
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- First Edition
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- 1841 & 1844
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£3,541.56
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Boston: James Munroe, 1841 & 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on each front pastedown; somewhat faint dampstain to preliminaries and first 10 pages of the second volume. Near Fine. First Editions of Emerson's two essential collections of essays, each uniformly bound in later 3/4 brown morocco leather and boards with gilt rules, gilt-lettered spines with five raised… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Used - Good
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- 1905
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- Hardcover
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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£7.74
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Henry Frowde, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 1905. 354 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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- Hardcover
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Woodstock, Illinois, USA
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£16.19
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New York: Grosset and Dunlap. Hardcover. Good. First and Second Series complete in one volume. Good, lacking the jacket. Yellow cloth, generally toned and soiled, bumped at the corners and edges, some light fraying. Square, bound with some reading wear, a few pencil marks at the preliminaries and contents page. A collection of Emerson's writings featuring some of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays: Second Series
by EMERSON Ralph Waldo
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- First Edition
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- 1844
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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£14,166.25
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1844. First Edition . Signed. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays: Second Series. Boston: James Munroe, 1844. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $17,500.First edition, presentation copy, of the second series of Emerson's essays including such important works as ""Experience,"" ""The Poet,"" and ""Nature,"" usual mixed first and second printing but composed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1841
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- Hardcover
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Rocky River, Ohio, USA
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£2,428.50
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Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo, 303pp. A fresh, lovely copy, bound in full crushed deep blue morocco by Taffin, with gilt borders,raised bands, gilt spine compartments, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, and gilt top edge. A few very small abrasions to the bottom edges of the boards and corners, and the rear board,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Used - Fair
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- 1st Edition
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- 1841
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Hudson, New Hampshire, USA
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£2,266.60
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This is a rare, first edition copy of "ESSAYS" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1841 1st edition, 1st printing; James Munroe and Company; Boston. The book is a collection of Emerson's first series of essays, including the classic, "Self Reliance" - please see the photos for the complete list. Original publisher's cloth binding.
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Staining and fading of the cloth over the covers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays : Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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- 1910
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- Full Leather
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London, Greater London, GBR
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£35.00
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London and New York: George Routledge and Sons N.d. [c. 1910's]. 8vo. 270 pp. Contemporary full leather with gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine darkened. A few marks to boards. Internally clean. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1910. Item Price
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Essays: First and Second Series. Two Volumes in one.
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
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- Reprint Edition
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- 1929.
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Langley, Washington, USA
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£76.90
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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1929.. Reprint Edition. A Near Fine copy in maroon cloth binding in a Very Good plus dust jacket.with two shallow edge tears. Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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- Reprint
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- 1901
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Perth, Western Australia, AUS
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£63.49
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London: Macmillan. 1901. Octavo, full leather binding, gilt school crest front board, gilt decoration to spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, pp 538. School prize plate front endpaper. Very good condition. Works by the American essayist, poet and philosopher: the well-known 'First Series' and 'Second Series' in one volume. Reprint. Leather. Item Price
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Essays: Second Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Like New
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- Fine
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA
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£24.28
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New York, New York: The Classics of Liberty Library, 1995. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. This special edition was privately printed for the members of The Classics of Liberty Library. "Essays: Second Series" is a series of essays written in 1844 by American essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson American concerning transcendentalism. It is the second volume of Emerson's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1924
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BATH, Somerset, GBR
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£790.00
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London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1924. Leather. Near Fine. 7" by 4.5". None. A finely bound Bumpus bound edition of the collected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a lovely copy from the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. In a fine full morocco Bumpus binding.A collection of the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, containing both the first and second series… Read more about this item Item Price
£790.00
Essays: Second Series (New and Revised Edition)
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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- Used - Very good copy
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- Revised ed.
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- 1883
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- Hardcover
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Pittsford, New York, USA
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£12.14
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very good copy. 1883. Revised ed.. hardcover. 8vo, 270 pp. . Item Price
£12.14
Essays: First Series and Second Series, Two Volumes in One - New Century Library
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
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£20.24
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NY : Thomas Nelson & Sons. vg-. Leather bound. no publication date, most New Century Library pub between 1899 & 1910; 206pp; green marbled eps; frontis on Emerson; text clean, previous owner name & light foxing to edges; top edge gilt; light wear to edges of green leather cover; gilt decor on spine . Item Price
£20.24