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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882). Letters and Social Aims. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1876.
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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882). Letters and Social Aims. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1876.
12o. Original green cloth (hinges cracked, worn). Provenance: Henry James, Sr. (1811-1882, presentation inscription from the author); Edward Holton James, son of Robertson James and grandson of Henry James, Sr. (inscriptions on flyleaf: "Edward W. Emerson of Concord told me in 1923 that the above handwriting was that of his father R.W. Emerson" and "To go to my daughter Mary after my death. Dec 18 1931.")
FIRST EDITION, A SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY EMERSON TO HENRY JAMES on the front flyleaf: "Henry James, Esqre With kind regards of the Author. December 1875."
A very fine association. "Through Emerson he came to know the Transcendentalists-Margaret Fuller, William Ellery Channing, Bronson Alcott Emerson said he had a 'serenity like the sun,' and Thoreau found him 'patient and determined to have the good of you.'" But no one, not even one of his closest friends, was spared his frankness in print: "Even the benign Emerson was not spared. Henry James could see him as 'a soul full of doors and windows'; he could call him, also, a 'man without a handle'" (Leon Edel, Henry James, New York, 1985, pp.9-11). BAL 5272.
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FIRST EDITION, A SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY EMERSON TO HENRY JAMES on the front flyleaf: "Henry James, Esq
A very fine association. "Through Emerson he came to know the Transcendentalists-Margaret Fuller, William Ellery Channing, Bronson Alcott Emerson said he had a 'serenity like the sun,' and Thoreau found him 'patient and determined to have the good of you.'" But no one, not even one of his closest friends, was spared his frankness in print: "Even the benign Emerson was not spared. Henry James could see him as 'a soul full of doors and windows'; he could call him, also, a 'man without a handle'" (Leon Edel, Henry James, New York, 1985, pp.9-11). BAL 5272.