[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: TRANSCENDENTALISM

[Norman Kane]

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE. 12 CHAPTERS. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870. First edition. BAL 5260: first printing.  Original green C cloth, slight wear, very good. 

A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JOHN STERLING AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON. WITH A SKETCH OF STERLING'S LIFE BY EDWARD WALDO EMERSON. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1897. First edition. BAL 5306. One of a small number of large paper copies. Original cloth with paper title label, signature of literary scholar Carl F. Strauch, very good. 

LETTERS FROM RALPH WALDO EMERSON TO A FRIEND 1838-1853. EDITED BY CHAS. ELIOT NORTON. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899. First edition. BAL 5307. One of a small number of large paper copies. Original cloth with paper title label, very good.  Prof. Strauch's copy. 

COOKE, GEORGE WILLIS. RALPH WALDO EMERSON: HIS LIFE, WRITINGS AND PHILOSOPHY. Boston: Osgood, 1881. First edition. Original cloth, some wear, good only. Portr. 

THOMPSON, LAWRANCE. EMERSON AND FROST, CRITICS OF THEIR TIMES ... Phila: Philobiblon Club, 1940. 1 of 250 copies only. Orig. cloth/boards, in box. Nice. 

SWIFT, LINDSAY.  BROOK FARM, ITS MEMBERS, SCHOLARS AND VISITORS.   N. Y.: Macmillan, 1900.  2nd ptg. Original. cloth, name of Jas. P. De La Vergne on end paper, very good. 

THOREAU, HENRY D.   WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS. A LIMITED EDITION. Franklin Library, 1976. Original full gilt-decorated leather, silk end papers, nice copy. Map & vignettes. 

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