The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library #91.3) by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo - [c.1955]

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Fair in Fair dust jacket. [c.1955]. Hardcover. A heavily-used Modern Library edition presenting a comprehensive compendium of the writings of the great 19th Century American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Edited, and with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson, and with a foreword by Tremaine McDowell. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket with snowy scene to front panel, lists 374 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1955, though 1950 date appears in book. ML #91.3. --- A Fair-only copy, with inked underlinings and yellow highlighting on several leaves, colored markers permanently taped to some leaves (see photo), prior owner's embossed seal to half title page, loosened rear hinge and liberal use of tape to the interior of the book; contents seem complete. Price-clipped dust jacket also with plenty of tape repairs but mostly intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector. PLEASE NOTE: This item is damaged and is priced accordingly.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxvii, 930 pages .