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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836.

First edition, second state with page 94 correctly numbered. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth honey-comb patterned in blind with stamped in gilt on the upper board. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, light wear and subtle uneven discoloration to cloth, softening to corners and spine ends, former owner name to front free end paper and Emerson's name written (in a non-authorial hand) to title page and foxing throughout. An important essay in which Emerson puts forth the foundation of transcendentalism. Item #140944440

Price: $5,000.00