[Rarebooks] FS: Emerson's POEMS with Hand-colored Illustrations

[Charles Agvent]

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. THE POEMS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. New York: 
Limited Editions Club, 1945. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full 
black sheepskin leather, grained and crushed, with gilt lettering on the 
front cover and spine; 256 pages. Selected and edited with a commentary 
by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with 22 lovely watercolor vignettes by 
Richard and Doris Beers that have been colored by hand in the studio of 
Charlize Brakeley. Copy #1076 of 1500 SIGNED by the artists on the 
colophon page. Just about Fine in a Fine slipcase. (#017939)        $135.00

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