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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Essays * Essays: Second Series. 2 volumes. Half-title in first volume, second volume bound without adverstisements and with dampstain to preliminaries and first 10 pages. 8vo, later 3/4 brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, top edges gilt; bookplate to front pastedowns. Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1841-1844
first editions. One of the defining texts of American Transcendentalism. "In effect a single book ... Timeless, and without a trace of 'dating' ... " (Grolier American 47). BAL 5189; 5198.
