The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected and Edited with a Commentary by Louis Untermeyer
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
All edges gilt. Silk moire endpapers; satin bookmark. Untermeyer's last paragraph of his Introduction says a lot: "Emerson's is a deceptive idiom. Casual and yet oracular, it is at once "rich and homely"; Lowll well described it as "Homespun cloth-of-gold." Without a slogan, with scarcely a whisper of rebellion, Emerson created a poetry that is far more challenging than that of all his "school". The enraptured New Englander still has a way of astonishing us with sudden daring and delight, knowing that we
....mount to Paradise By the stairway of surprise.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stillman Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 372SB
- Title
- The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Illustrator
- Simple illustrations throughout the text by Richard and Doris Beer
- Format/Binding
- Burgundy leather binding with gilt decorated boards and spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- No other copyright but 1945, but I'll go along with the 1979 pri
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Pages
- 238
- Size
- Tall 8 vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Easton Press "Masterpieces of American Literature" bookplate laid-in, not used.
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About Stillman Books
children's and other illustrated books, along with aviation, sea and naval and other categories. I'm still plugging along after 42 years of book-selling.
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