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Lot 183

Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$1,500 - 2,500
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$960
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[Literature] Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson


Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903-04. In 22 volumes (with the 10-volume Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson). Autograph Centenary Edition, #361/600 numbered sets, signed by the publisher, including an autograph manuscript leaf of Emerson's bound in at front of first volume. Publisher's brown cloth, printed paper spine labels, some boards lightly soiled, cloth on front joint of first volume split, wear to some headcaps; all edges untrimmed; dampstaining to prelims of first volume, scattered foxing to same. BAL 5463; Myerson A44.3a

Several poems and essays in Vols. IX, XI, and XII are printed or collected here for the first time. 

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