A Fine Collection of American Literature and History

1. Representative Men: Seven Lectures
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850. First edition, second issue. 12mo. 285 pp. Three-quarter straight-grain brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, joints rubbed, spine dry; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; marbled endpapers. BAL 5219; Myerson A22.1.b

2. The Conduct of Life
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First edition, second printing (BAL Reprint A). 12mo. (viii), 288 pp.; without 16-page catalogue found in some copies. Bound as above, joints and extremities rubbed, spine ends worn, spine dry. BAL 5231, Reprint A; Myerson A26.1.b

3. May-Day and Other Pieces
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First edition, first printing. 12mo. iv, 205 pp. Bound as above, joints and spine ends rubbed, spine dry; title-page toned. BAL 5250; Myerson A28.1.a

4. Society and Solitude...
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First edition. 12mo. (iv), 300 pp. Bound as above, joints and spine ends rubbed, spine dry; title-page toned. BAL 5260; Myerson A31.1.a

5. Letters and Social Aims
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. First edition. 12mo. (iv), 314 pp. Bound as above, joints rubbed, spine dry; title-page toned; some text leaves toned. BAL 5272; Myerson A34.1.a1

6. The Massachusetts Quarterly Review
Boston, etc., September, 1848. Vol. I, No., IV. Includes Emerson’s unsigned notice of Essays and Tales by John Sterling, on pp. 515-516; unsigned notice of a new translation of Dante by John Carlyle, on p. 527. Myerson on p. E118, E119

7. English Traits
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1856. First edition, first issue (with damaged type in the first word of the last line on p. 230 and "(1)" on the half-title). Publisher’s brown cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed. Myerson A24.1a

8. Thayer, James Bradley
A Western Journey With Mr. Emerson
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1884. First edition. Printed limp wrappers; in rare (and early) original printed dust-jacket. Not in Myerson