Nature
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the son of a Unitarian minister and a chaplain during the American Revolution, was born in 1803 in Boston. He attended the Boston Latin School, and in 1817 entered Harvard, graduating in 1820. Emerson supported himself as a schoolteacher from 1821-26. In 1826 he was "approbated to preach," and in 1829 became pastor of the Scond Church (Unitarian) in Boston. That same year he married Ellen Louise Tucker, who was to die of tuberculosis only seventeen months later. In 1832 Emerson resigned his pastorate and traveled to Eurpe, where he met Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. He settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a new career as a public lecturer, and married Lydia Jackson a year later. A group that gathered around Emerson in Concord came to be known as "the Concord school," and included Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour; and these lectures were the source of most of his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy , which views the world of phenomena as a sort of symbol of the inner life and emphasizes individual freedom and self-reliance. Emerson's address to the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard (1837) and another address to the graduating class of the Harvard Divinity School (1838) applied his doctrine to the scholar and the clergyman, provoking sharp controversy. An ardent abolitionist, Emerson lectured and wrote widely against slavery from the 1840's through the Civil War. His principal publications include two volumes of Essays (1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870). He died of pneumonia in 1882 and was buried in Concord.
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Boston: James Munroe and Company,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1836. 1st; 1st issue. Cloth. 7 3/8 x 4 5/8; The first book by Emerson, the great American author of iconic works. Page 94 paginated incorrectly as page 92. Published Sept 9-10 1836. BAL 5181. Bound modern blue cloth. One fly leaf both front and back.… Read more about this item Item Price
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NATURE: ADDRESSES AND LECTURES
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Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1849. Hardcover. Octavo, [1]-383, [1]-8 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blindstamped frame on boards. Boards show splitting to front joint, rubbing to corners, head edge of spine chipped off, and tail edge of spine partially chipped off. Text block has previous owner's name on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Munich: Bremer Presse, 1929. Printed for Random House. Hardcover. Orig. cream vellum spine lettered in gilt and marbled boards. Fine in near fine red cloth dust wrapper in matching slightly worn slipcase. 86 pages. 29 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 250 printed by hand on Zanders hand-made paper, title and initials designed by Anna Simons.… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Random House, 1929. 86 pages. Printed for Random House by Bremer Presse, Munich. Printed by hand on Zanders hand-made paper. 250 numbered copies (i-ccl) for Random House; 280 numbered copies (1-280) for subscribers of the Bremer Presse. This is Nr. cvi. Title and Initials by Anna Simons. Boards and text clean, bright and tight. Dustjacket repairs to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nature (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
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Nature
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Printed for Random House [by the Bremer Presse], 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A completely fine copy in the original matching simple burgandy wrapper and slipcase. The wrapper and slipcase are in very good condition -- spine faded and the slipcase with some wear and paper splits but solidly intact. The book itself is, again, completely… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nature
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Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
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Nature; addresses, and lectures. -
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. Centenary Edition. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Staining to front cover (see photo) ~5 pages have notes & underlining IN PENCIL.. vi, 461p.; 19 cm. Volume 1 only of Centenary Edition of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson with A biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a General… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nature
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New York: Duffield, 1909. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Small, slim volume in gray paper covered boards over navy blue cloth spine; front cover ornately decorated and lettered in gilt, red, and black. Printed by the Premier Press, New York. 53 pp. with decorated boarders on each page. A bright, tight copy, very faint tidemarking to the top… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nature (Penguin Great Ideas)
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Nature
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Nature (Limited to 50 Copies)
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Pasadena, CA: Clinker Press, 2011. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 50 copies signed and numbered. The present copy is #6. 37 pages. Emerson originally published in 1836. Set in 9 point Caledonia, designed by W.A. Dwiggins, printed on Mohawk Superfine by Andrew Chaves and bound by Mariana Blau. A fine copy bound in brown leather lettered and decorated… Read more about this item Item Price
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