[Rarebooks] FS: THE DIAL, 1841-42: Margaret Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau

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FULLER,  Margaret  and EMERSON, Ralph  Waldo  (editors).  THOREAU,
Henry  David.  THE  DIAL: A MAGAZINE FOR LITERATURE,  PHILOSOPHY,  AND
RELIGION,  VOLUME  II: July 1841, October 1841, January 1842, &  April
1842.  Boston & London: E. P. Peabody/John Green 1842. First  Edition.
Contemporary  half  calf with calf corners and marbled  boards;  bound
without  wrappers.  A prototype of the 20th-century  little  magazine,
the  DIAL  was the most important American literary periodical of  the
19th  century and one of the scarcest with print runs never  exceeding
300  copies.  First  edited by Margaret Fuller (1840-42) and  then  by
Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  (1842-44), it not only featured many  of  their
most  important works but also introduced the writings of Henry  David
Thoreau.  Published  only  from July 1840 to April 1844,  Volume  II's
four  issues  contain  works  by   Thoreau,  including  his  important
"Friendship,"  later  collected  in  his first book,  and  by  Emerson
including  "Transcendentalism."  Poems  by James Russell  Lowell  also
appear.  Page 421 has an early ink correction, possibly in the hand of
the  editor. Rubbing to spine and boards. Tight, clean, and Near  Fine
                                                               $2500.00

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