[Rarebooks] FS: Ralph Waldo Emerson's MAY-DAY, one of only 100 copies in the gift binding, INSCRIBED to Anna Cabot Lowell

[Charles Agvent]

  From our just posted internet catalog--American Transcendentalists: 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau--consisting of 55 items, 
mostly new arrivals and with many autographed pieces. Highlights include 
several letters, manuscript items, and inscribed books by Emerson, a few 
bound copies of the Dial magazine edited by Emerson and Margaret Fuller, 
and a number of first editions by Thoreau including WALDEN and the issue 
of his first book that prompted his famous quote: _"I have now a library 
of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote 
myself."_  We list two copies of those 700.  A direct link to our 
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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES. Boston: Ticknor and 
Fields, 1867. Original gilt-decorated white linen, the gift binding, one 
of only 100 copies bound thus from a total edition of 2000. Both BAL 
5250 and Myerson A28.1.a note that the earliest inscribed copies are 
dated 1 May 1867, May Day. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the 
author as "R. W. Emerson" to Mrs. Anna C. Lowell on 1 May 1867 on the 
first blank. Anna Cabot Lowell was the author of THEORY OF TEACHING, THE 
ELEMENTS OF ASTRONOMY, and several books for children. A few pages 
unopened. Spine slightly darkened with minor wear to the tips. Near Fine 
and scarce.         $8,500.00

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