[Rarebooks] FS: First Editions of Emerson's Essays, 1841 & 1844

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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. ESSAYS: with ESSAYS: SECOND SERIES. Boston: James 
Munroe, 1841 & 1844. First Edition. First Editions of Emerson's two 
essential collections of essays, each uniformly bound in later 3/4 brown 
morocco leather and boards with gilt rules, gilt-lettered spines with 
five raised bands, top edges gilt. Half-title in first volume, second 
volume bound without advertisements. One of the defining texts of 
American Transcendentalism. BAL 5189 and BAL 5198; GROLIER AMERICAN 47: 
"In effect a single book.... Timeless, and without a trace of 'dating'"; 
MYERSON A10.1.a and A16.1.a-b. Tasteful bookplate on each front 
pastedown; somewhat faint dampstain to preliminaries and first 10 pages 
of the second volume. Near Fine. (#019803)     $3,500

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