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EMERSON RALPH WALDO - Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Title: Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Description: New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1940. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers / gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Spine title are faded, and the ends are bumped. Undated (1940s) and fore edge is deckled. Foxing to the back end paper and paste down. Text clean and binding tight. "Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own. " His celebrated essays--the twelve published in "Essays: First Series" (1841) and eight in "Essays: Second Series" (1844) --are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication. " ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Essays Fiction Classics

Price: US$ 19.25 Seller: Bytown Bookery
- Book number: 2044

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