Ralph waldo emerson preface (9 risultati)

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited, numbered printing of 1,500 copies (this is #1204). Bookplate on front paste-down. Otherwise, clean and solid. ; 8vo; 377 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Translated by Francis Gladwin. Covers are worn and soiled -- corners worn through. Front inner hinge paper is split although cloth backing is intact. One signature is slightly pulled. Thirteen page preface by Emerson. ; 12mo.

Hardcover. Condizione: vg. Limited ed. 1/1500. 8vo. xix. 377pp. Blue cloth with gold bordering to boards, gold illustration to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Spine faded. Corners rubbed. Top page edge gilt. Illustrated end papers. Great work of literature. In English. In very good condition. …

Hard Cover. No Jacket. Hard Cover. No Jacket. HB NODJ, 1875, Purple Cloth with Gold Gilt decoration & Title, Cover Rubbed & Scuffed & Few Spots,Minor Fox,534 pgs, index 1st Lines,Spine.

dj. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xx],588pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown, and his annotations inked and pencilled throughout. Light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Roy Howard Brown, unclipped (priced $25.00), with trace soil, and light rubbing with tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Sections include "A Reluctant Priesr (1825-1832)", "A Self on Trial (1839-1841)", and "Issue and Campaigns (1857-1865)", with chronology and concluding index. [86795].…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1931 LTD EDITION CLUB NMBR #485 of 1500 and SIGNED by Publisher OLIVER SIMON hardcover NEAR FINE nice clean copy, Binding is solid, cover is nice and clean, spine has faded in color, slipcase is VERY GOOD is starting to crack and wear at edges. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 379 pages; Snugly bound in original chestnut brown, trade cloth with boards beveled at edges and titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine and in blind to lower board. Light crimping to cloth at spine ends and trace fraying at crown. Coated brown endpages are neat and clean, though the name of the prior owner has been effaced from the bookplate to the front pastedown. Cloth at spine a trifle toned. Noatable Emerson preface for this first appearance of the Francis Gladwin translation of this important medieval Persian poet's Gulistan. Handsome clean copy. VG or better and uncommon in condition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Original, limp full vellum in very good condition, contents bright, very slightly toned on the page edges, printed in red and black from an edition of 325, from the library of artist and printmaker Harold Lukens Doolittle bearing his label, which has resulted in a little offsetting, Doves Bindery stamp to the rear pastedown, 312pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

First Edition. First Printing, one of 2,100 copies. Octavo (18.75cm); publisher's dark green dotted cloth (Blanck's binding A / Borst's binding 2, with spine reading "Author of Excursions and A Week on Concord River") titled in gilt on spine, with holly wreaths embossed within an elaborate blind-ruled border on covers; brown endpapers; [viii],[1],2-229,[3]pp. A Delano family copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf 2 months prior to publication by Annie L. Delano to her uncle, Edward Delano: "For my dear Uncle Ned / from his affectionate niece / Annie L. Delano / July 31st 1865." Hint of sunning to spine, a few tiny nicks to spine ends, with some foxing to text edges and margins (most evident in the preliminary and terminal leaves); hinges sound, with the cloth unspoiled, and the gilt titling still quite bright; Very Good+.The first collection of Thoreau's letters, accompanied by a small selection of poems, published posthumously and edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. "These letters, most of which were addressed to a single confidential friend, give us Thoreau's thoughts in undress, and there has been no previous book in which we came so near him. It is like engraving the studies of an artist, studies many of which were found too daring or difficult for final execution, and which must be show in their original shape or not at all" (review in The Atlantic, October, 1865). This copy was inscribed by Annie Delano to her uncle Ned well prior to publication (Letters was deposited for copyright on August 14, 1865, and published in October). The recipient, Edward Delano, was the brother of one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's maternal grandfathersl; Annie Delano was his aunt. An attractive, early copy with an interesting pedigree. Borst A6.1.a; BAL 20116.…