[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Ralph Waldo Emerson MAY-DAY in Gift Binding, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $6500 NET

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. (#015678)        $8,500.00

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