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. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1955]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting a comprehensive collection of the writings of the acclaimed 19th Century American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Includes all of his essays, and representative portions of his poems, addresses, biographical sketches and miscellaneous works. Edited, and with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson, and with a foreword by Tremaine McDowell. --- In Toledano spine 11 / blue cloth / ML hex torchbearer device blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / tan Kent endpapers / jacket style l, verso blank. Likely published c.1966 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #91.3. --- With plentiful soiling to all textblock edges (but not to interior of volume), inked gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Dust jacket with religious sticker covering flap price area, and with dampstains and small chips & tears to edges, else intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxvii, 930 pages .