Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Selected Essays

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1975.

Green cloth spine with paste-on title, title aged, cloth darkened to flower decorated boards. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 9 inches tall; 122 pages. Olive-green slip case present a bit handled with loss of lower and top panel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. [wiki]

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