[EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.] Nature. 8vo, original blue-green cloth, decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, light rubbing to head and foot of spine and corners; moderate foxing, front hinge tender, small hole in rear endpaper; preserved in custom 1/4 morocco clamshell case. first edition of emerson's first book, second issue, with p. 94 correctly paginated. Published anonymously. From the Estate of Kenneth Silverman, a Pulitzer-winning biographer. Mr. Silverman was a specialist in Colonial American literature and the co-director of the program in American civilization at New York University. BAL 5181. Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1836