CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 2014. Trade Paperback. It chanced during one winter, a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age. By an odd coincidence, four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the citizens of Boston or New..... More
Random House Inc, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true..... More
Hougton, Mifflin and Company / Riverside, 1904. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Maroon cloth covered boards.(This is volume VIII of the Concord Edition of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson). Worn at top and bottom of spine. Hinge cracking verso of third page of front stuff..... More
Houghton Mifflin Company/ Riverside Press, 1904. Cloth. Octavo {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Moderate edgewear. Gilt tinted textblock top edge. Hinge starting to crack between blank page verso to frontispiece sculpture of Emerson. 611 pages. More
Houghton Mifflin Company/ Riverside Press, 1903. Cloth. U.S. edition. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with lettering on spine and stamped gold author's facsimile signature front board. Board edges worn, especially bottom edge. Cloth is discolored from exposure to moisture back board top half. Tanning of end pages. Previous owner's bookplate..... More
A.L. Burt Company, 1990 (?). Cloth. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Damp stains & discoloration to boards. Non-authorial inscription (in fountain pen) front pastedown: 'Calhoun Boyd with love fron Aunt Bettye, xmas, 1912.' 267 pages plus 6 pages advertisement of 'A.L. Burt's Catalogue of Books for Young People..... More
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 2014. Trade Paperback. Self-Reliance is an essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her..... More
Houghton Mifflin Company/ Riverside Press Cambridge, 1911. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine & gold facsimile signature tooled center front board. Back panel of board and bottom edge of spine and rear board is discolored (appearing rather green). Many..... More
