The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Emerson Ralph Waldo, First Edition (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 5.75 X 8.5 inches, 276 pages. Brown weave cloth hardcover with paper label affixed to spineTop page edge gilt. Binding is firm and tight. Many pages uncut. Previous owner has stamped his name on the front and back inside covers. Frontispiece of Swedenborg with tissue guard. No publisher listed other than "Fireside Editions".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Considerable damage to the spine, some paint spots to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Photogravures (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 12 Volumes, Complete, Maroon Cloth, Spines Gilt, Blind Stamped Rules On Covers, Top Edges Gilt. First Editions Thus, Newly Copyright 1904, With 1904 Dates On Title Pages. A Very Clean And Bright Near Fine Set, No Marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Bohn's Standard Library. Green binding, gilt titles, all over blind emboss. Volume One. 494 pages. Plain brown endpapers. Volume Two. 448 pages. Green Publisher's list at front and back. Both books are straight, complete, firm and intact. Nothing is missing or damaged. Surprisingly, little or no edge damage or wear. Volume Two has minor scuff on front cover. Top edge lightly soiled. Internally spotless, no foxing. Previous owner's name on title page of both volumes. Part of a collection that has been in storage since the early 1950s. Scans available.

3/4 leather. Condition: Near Fine. A very attractive example of this sumptuous collection of the "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson", bound in a lavish 3/4 dark-green morocco over marbled boards, with fine gilt-tooling at the compartments. Complete in 12 octavo volumes. The 1903-1904 "Autograph Centenary Edition", here honoring Emerson's 1803 birth. This set #67 of 600 copies issued of the "Autograph Centenary Edition", EACH SIGNED "HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & CO." AT THE LIMITATION AND EACH ALSO INCLUDING AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LEAF, IN THIS CASE AN 1854 HANDWRITTEN LETTER --ADDRESSED FROM CONCORD-- IN VOLUME I IN RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S FLOWING HAND, TAKING UP BOTH SIDES OF THE BOUND-IN SINGLE SHEET. THE ALS GRACIOUSLY OFFERS THANKS FOR EMERSON'S "ELECTION AS AN HONORARY MEMBER OF 'THE EVERETT LITERARY ASSOCIATION'", WHILE ADMITTING "I AM MUCH TO BLAME FOR ALLOWING YOUR NOTE INFORMING ME OF MY ELECTION TO REMAIN UNACKNOWLEDGED HITHERTO". The set is bright and crisp and easily VG+ to Near Fine. Top-edges bright-gilt, deckled fore and bottom-edges. Very faint mustiness to several of the volumes, clean as could be internally, with no writing or markings of any kind. Illustrated in photogravure throughout, matching marbled endsheets and pastedowns as well. A lasting, significant collection of Emerson's full body of writings. IN ADDITION, also included are the first 4 volumes (of 10 all told) of "Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1872". This is an example of the scarce signed, numbered sets, IN THIS CASE #67 OF 600 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON IN A STRONG INK AT THE FOOT OF HIS FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT IN AN INSERTED SHEET IN VOLUME I. Likewise, this set is also lavishly bound in a 3/4 morocco, dark-brown in this case, also with fine gilt-tooling at the compartments. Published in 1909 and 1910, the complete set spans Emerson's journals from 1820 thru 1872 and, in its elusive signed/limited, remains one of the diamonds of Emerson's collections of writing. Here, "The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson" (in 12 Volumes) AND the first 4 volumes of "Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson". Both sets signed by Emerson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Two distinct sets, both sets are one of 600 copies, both sets are numbered 159. The first volume of the Autograph Centenary Edition in twelve volumes is signed by the publisher and contains a manuscript leaf in Emerson's hand. The leaf features thirteen lines of handwritten rhyming poetry in ink, covering the full page. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine labels printed in black and red. Illustrated frontispiece in each volume. Text blocks are fine. Books have very light rubbing to corners, heads and heels of spines. Sunning to spine labels. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches.

The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, original publisherâs cloth with printed paper spine labels, illustrated with numerous mounted photogravures, frontispiece portrait of Emerson to Vol. I with lettered tissue guard. One of 600 numbered copies signed by the publisher and with an original double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one, this is number 515. The manuscript leaf reads in full, "Will anyone question the will of an aristocracy? Not, whilst there is any remainder of the substance in the form. For the name is a verdict. The noble ennoblis. That is his use. Can there be any greater? . two to make and atmosphere. I am acquainted with persons who go attended by this ambient cloud. It is sufficient that they come, it is not important what they say. The hospitable soul makes me wiser + bolder by provocation. There are others who have no deference, + who . one of all attributes but material values. As much health + muscle." In near fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emersonâs poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).

The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, publisher's original three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, illustrated with numerous mounted photogravures. One of 600 numbered copies signed by the publisher, this is number 46. The original manuscript reads, "But whilst race works thus immortally to keep its own, it is resisted by other forces. The Arabs of today are the Arabs of Pharaoh, but the Englishman of today is, on the whole, a very different Person. Civilization is a strong re-agent, and eats away the old traits. It is noticed that each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have a well marked face; the Quakers have, the nuns have. An English man will pick at a dissenter by his manners. Trades and professions. carve their own lines on face and form. This is not easy. It is not easy to find more points of contrast than between the French and English people. Whites and negroes are hardly more unlike." In near fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emerson's poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).

The Autograph Centenary edition of Emerson's complete works with an autograph manuscript in his hand and with his notations tipped in. One of six hundred copies additionally signed by the publisher, this is number 576. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with photogravures including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Emerson. Tipped into volume I, the manuscript in Emerson's hand reads in part, "He repeats after Plato the affirmations of real essence. There is not any life in those things which are not eternal life. Life which is not eternal is not life but in a little while perishes nor can To Be be predicated on those things which cease to Be and of those which never cease to be." In near fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emersonâs poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).

Autograph Centenary edition with a double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Numerous mounted photogravure illustrations. One of 600 copies. Emerson discovered Pascal in college and was a lifelong admirer of Pascal's wisdom. At 23, he wrote, âIt is the leading idea of Pascalâs Religious Meditations to contrast what is grand & pitiful in human nature.â In 1859 he remarked, âNow & then, rarely comes a stout man like Luther, Montaigne, Pascal, Herbert, who utters a thought or feeling in a virile manner, and it is unforgettable." And in his journals of April-May 1864: "We said, that ours was the recuperative age. Pascal is one of its recoveries, not only the essay on Love, but the pure text of the Pensees." The quotations in this text seem to be all from the Pensees. In fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emerson's poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).

Autograph Centenary edition with a double sided manuscript in Emersonâs hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarters contemporary morocco over cloth, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Numerous mounted photogravure illustrations. One of 600 copies. In near fine condition. When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. This edition of the Complete Works includes all of Emerson's poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Their "ethical inspiration and stimulation, their occasional startling phrase, their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities" (Grolier, American 100 47).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Numerous mounted photogravure illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. 12 volumes. Set No. 173 of 600 numbered with a hand-written Emerson original double-sided manuscript leaf in ink, bound in Volume 1, and hand-Signed by Publishers, Henry O. Houghton & George Mifflin. Numerous mounted photogravure illustrations. Three-quarter leather. Gilt tooling to the spine front and rear panels. Top edge gilt, marbled end papers and raised band. Large Octavo. Minimal wear, no fading. The autograph manuscript leaf is from Emerson's work "English Traits," which was originally published in 1856. An exceptional set of Emerson's Works enhanced by the inclusion of the manuscript page. Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 ¿ April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul". Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world." He remains among the pillars of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Thus. A complete, matching, twelve (12) volume set in green coth covered boards with gilt spinal titles. Copyright dates of the individual volumes range from 1883 to 1906. Spines of all 12 volumes are darkened. As a set all volumes are clean and unmarked. At least a third possess uncut quartos. Page tops are gilt, remaining page edges are darkening. Most wear is noticeable at the head and tale of the spine where the cloth is ragged. Several volumes have discoloration or staining to covers (white paint splatters) but on the whole this is very minimal. This University edition is very uncommon and is complete in 12 volumes as presented. It includes works by Emerson that were previously unpublished.

First edition, large paper issue, of the Journals, handsomely bound with the Autograph Centenary edition of the Works, each copy number 524 of 600 sets signed by the publisher and issued with a double-sided autograph leaf. This set features manuscript notes for a lecture, which were not retained in the published article, "Aristocracy", and are unrecorded save for a brief mention in this edition's footnotes. Both the Journals and the Works were produced by Emerson's son, Edward (1844-1930). His edition of the collected works remained the standard text until 1971. While lengthy extracts from Emerson's journals had previously been published, this edition of the Journals was the first comprehensive edition. It "was recognized at once as a prodigious undertaking rarely matched previously in providing insights into the intellectual growth of an author of Emerson's stature. It served to stimulate a wide range of critical commentary" (ODNB). This set also features a volume of bibliography, number 499 from a limited edition of 530 copies. BAL 5318-5329 & 5463; Myerson A52.I.1 D1 & B19. 23 vols, octavo (220 x 150 mm). Mounted photogravure frontispieces with captioned tissue guards, similar plates throughout, text printed in red and black. Folded manuscript leaf inlaid to size and bound in to front of vol. I. Publisher's deluxe brown crushed half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, compartments tooled with gilt foliate design, striped green patterned paper sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut, green bookmarkers. Many gatherings unopened. Spines uniformly sunned as usual, bindings very lightly rubbed. A near-fine set.