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Nature
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Good
- Seller
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1929. 86 pages. Printed for Random House by Bremer Presse, Munich. Printed by hand on Zanders hand-made paper. 250 numbered copies (i-ccl) for Random House; 280 numbered copies (1-280) for subscribers of the Bremer Presse. This is Nr. cvi. Title and Initials by Anna Simons. Boards and text clean, bright and tight. Dustjacket repairs to the joints at the spine; spine darkened with some small loss of material and wear to head and tail as well as corners. Jacket protected by a Brodart cover. Previous collector's bookplate on the front pastedown. . Limited Numbered Edition. Vellum backed marbled boards. Fine/Good. 11" x 7.5". Small Press Printing.
Synopsis
Ralph Waldo Emerson , the son of a Unitarian minister and a chaplain during the American Revolution, was born in 1803 in Boston. He attended the Boston Latin School, and in 1817 entered Harvard, graduating in 1820. Emerson supported himself as a schoolteacher from 1821-26. In 1826 he was "approbated to preach," and in 1829 became pastor of the Scond Church (Unitarian) in Boston. That same year he married Ellen Louise Tucker, who was to die of tuberculosis only seventeen months later. In 1832 Emerson resigned his pastorate and traveled to Eurpe, where he met Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. He settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a new career as a public lecturer, and married Lydia Jackson a year later. A group that gathered around Emerson in Concord came to be known as "the Concord school," and included Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour; and these lectures were the source of most of his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy , which views the world of phenomena as a sort of symbol of the inner life and emphasizes individual freedom and self-reliance. Emerson's address to the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard (1837) and another address to the graduating class of the Harvard Divinity School (1838) applied his doctrine to the scholar and the clergyman, provoking sharp controversy. An ardent abolitionist, Emerson lectured and wrote widely against slavery from the 1840's through the Civil War. His principal publications include two volumes of Essays (1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870). He died of pneumonia in 1882 and was buried in Concord.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ultramarine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005190
- Title
- Nature
- Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Limited Numbered Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- emerson nature small press bremer presse
- Size
- 11" x 7.5"
Terms of Sale
Ultramarine Books
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About the Seller
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Brooklyn, New York
About Ultramarine Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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