[Rarebooks] FS: One of the finest Emerson Presentation Copies Extant

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recently posted internet catalog--American Transcendentalists: 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau--consisting of 55 items, 
mostly new arrivals and with many autographed pieces. A direct link to 
our Catalogs page is:
http://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/catalogues.html?id=EPnCfiRM&mv_pc=1534

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS. Boston: Osgood, 1876. 
First Edition. Original terra cotta cloth. BAL 5272: Signature mark N 
present on page 209; Myerson A34.1.a: correct readings on page 308. 
Myerson also notes that "Emerson was greatly assisted in compiling this 
volume by James Elliot Cabot and Ellen Emerson." This copy is INSCRIBED 
and SIGNED by the author: "J. Elliot Cabot, Esq./His book/R. W. 
Emerson/14 Dec. 1875." Below the inscription, likely in Cabot's hand, is 
the following: "This, Miss Ellen Emerson says, was the first copy that 
came to him from the publisher." Myerson states that 5000 copies were 
printed 15 December 1875, the same day the book was advertised as being 
published that day in a Boston newspaper. There are also five pages with 
comments or corrections in pencil in Cabot's hand as well as notes 
filling about a third of one of the rear blanks. In addition to his work 
on this book, Cabot was also a secretary for Emerson as well as a 
longtime friend and his first biographer. Association copies of this 
magnitude of Emerson's books are very few and far between. The rear 
hinge is broken and the front hinge is ready to go with some external 
splitting there as well. The spine tips are frayed. Good example of one 
of the finest Emerson Presentation copies extant.         $20,000.00

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