The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson [WITH] Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1872 [LIMITED EDITION, WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF INSERTED - COMPLETE IN 22 VOLUMES]

Published by Printed at The Riverside Press / Houghton, Mifflin and Co, Cambridge / Boston, 1903

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507/600. 22 volumes, octavo (22 by 15 cm), published between 1903 and 1914. Half-titles and volume titles in red and black; gravure frontispieces and occasional illustrations throughout on India paper, mounted; top edge gilt, other edges uncut as issued; silk ribbon markers. Sheet of Emerson's autograph manuscript inset in leaf following half-title of the first volume. Uniformly bound at the Riverside Press in three-quarter brown crushed morocco over marbled boards, with matching endleaves. Edition limited to 600 copies, numbered by hand at the limitation page (and signed for the publisher in the first volume), this being set no. 507. Spines lightly sunned, a few with light rubbing; 3 volumes with slight chips at spine caps; paper boards with occasional scuffs, else a fine set. Autograph Centenary Edition (Works); Large Paper Copy (Journals), with all of Emerson's poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters and essays, some published here for the first time. The inset manuscript contains sixteen lines of text in black ink on blue paper, with corrections. The opening line, "The English are not particularly desirous that foreign nations should be ably represented at their court." suggests the sort of observation one might find in Emerson's English Traits (1856). References: BAL 5314 (Works); Grolier, American 100, 47.

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Title
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson [WITH] Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1872 [LIMITED EDITION, WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF INSERTED - COMPLETE IN 22 VOLUMES]
Author
Emerson, Ralph Waldo; E. (Edward) Waldo Emerson (ed.); Waldo Emerson Forbes (ed.)
Publisher
Printed at The Riverside Press / Houghton, Mifflin and Co, Cambridge / Boston
Publication year
1903
Condition
Nearly Fine
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Hardcover
Edition
The Autograph Centenary Edition.
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Since 1985 we offer individual books for sale from our inventory of 150,000 rare, out-of-print and antiquarian volumes on many topics, with an emphasis on Judaica, Hebraica, Bibles and rabbinics, the fine and decorative arts, architecture, photography, textile and wallpaper sample books, Bauhaus and the avant garde, expressionist dance, Olympic Games and sport, the ancient near-east and archeology, erotica, illustrated and foreign-language books, especially German, Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew, as well as books from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, plus Russian constructivist materials. We create book collections, both large and small, for individuals, decorators, archives and libraries¿currently available: a 10,000-volume research collection on Judaica in the German language. In addition, we maintain a beguiling selection of original works of art and photography. Eric Chaim Kline provides appraisal services for estate, insurance and tax purposes, often helping to match book donors with libraries and museums. We purchase books of merit and entire collections; we also take books on consignment with favorable terms. We are a rental source for movie and tv production, occasionally providing the prop on which the plot turns. Traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe, Eric Chaim Kline has been buying and selling old and rare books since the 1980¿s, when in graduate school at Brandeis University. Proprietor of bookshops in several Los Angeles locations since 1985, he hosts visitors by appointment in our lively bookstore and ships books to collectors, libraries and museums worldwide. Kline occasionally lectures on topics in book collecting and Jewish studies. He sponsors the annual Bibliography Award granted by the Association of Jewish Libraries and serves on the national board of the Antiquarian Booksellers¿ Association of America. We welcome your inquiries.

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