Search results for: 'EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.'
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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Autograph letter signed to Elizabeth Hoar.Concord, : 1856
RWE returns a book of newly published poems written by a neighbour (" which I have kept longer than was right, from liking & because one is always expecting a better day & mood to read these pastoral verses. I find them always pleasing, with a solid honesty quite free from prettiness or showiness And whilst they particularly please me that he praises... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 70151
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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces.Boston : 1867
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on May Day, "C. C. Shackford from R. W. Emerson. 1 May 1867". This is one of approximately 100 copies in the cream cloth binding for presentation. An excellent association: Charles Chauncy Shackford (1815-1891), Emerson's fellow Harvard graduate in the class of 1835, taught at the Concord Academy... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 109694
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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Representative Men:Boston : 1850
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed in a secretarial hand on the front free endpaper "Frederic H. Hedge / From the Author." The book shows Hedge's close reading, with marginal pencil lines marking several passages, and a number of manuscript marginalia. A key association: Emerson first met Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890) in... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 109707
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DOUGLASS; Frederick; EMERSON, Ralph Waldo; STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence. The Atlantic Monthly, devoted to literature, science, art, and politics. January 1867.Boston : 1867
The January 1867 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, which includes the first appearance in print of three notable works, all published anonymously: Frederick Douglass's An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage, a plea for equal suffrage between the races in the aftermath of the Civil War; Edmund Clarence Stedman's Pan in Wall Street, a whimsical poem... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 135578
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KINGSLEY, Charles. Phaethon.Cambridge : 1852
First edition. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), best remembered for his works The Water-Babies and Westward Ho!, produced this work to seek to refute the doctrines of Ralph Waldo Emerson, using the form of a Platonic dialogue. Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 123965
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THOREAU, Henry David. Letters to Various Persons.Boston : 1865
First edition in the binding variant A, described in BAL as presumably the earliest of a number of styles, and cloth type Z. This volume compiles a large number of letters written by Thoreau to correspondents such as his wife, his sister, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with nine poems. An exceptional copy, Thoreau's books are rarely found in such beautiful... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 79534
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OLIVER, Mary, & Molly Malone Cook. Our World.Boston : 2007
First edition, first impression, signed by Oliver on the rear free endpaper. Published two years after the death of Oliver's partner, Molly Malone Cook, in 2005, Our World brings together Cook's photography and Oliver's poems and prose in "an intimate revelation of their lives and art" (front flap).
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) is best remembered... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 147538
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OLIVER, Mary. West Wind.Boston & New York : 1997
Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, signed by the author on the title page, scarce thus. West Wind is the thirteenth collection by Oliver, containing 40 pieces of lyric poetry and prose.
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) is best remembered today for her crystalline style and minute attentiveness to nature, characteristic of Romantic poetry. Richard... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 147173
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OLIVER, Mary. Winter Hours.Boston & New York : 1999
First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. Winter Hours is Oliver's fourteenth book of poems, which which she "communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" (Miami Herald); also included are Oliver's essays on some of her favourite poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edgar Allen Poe, and Robert Frost.
Mary... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 146951
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OLIVER, Mary. American Primitive.Boston & Toronto : 1983
First edition, first printing, scarce hardcover issue (it was also issued in wrappers). American Primitive is the sixth collection of poems by Oliver, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. Stanley Kunitz wrote that the book "enchants me with the purity of its lyric voice, the loving freshness of its perceptions, and the singular glow of a spiritual... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 147169
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OLIVER, Mary. Blue Pastures.San Diego, New York & London : 1995
Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, signed by the author on the title page, scarce thus. Blue Pastures contains 15 prose pieces by Oliver, inspired by her three "sustaining passions": "love of the wild world, love of literature, love for and from another person" (p. 119).
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) is best remembered today for her crystalline... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 147170
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OLIVER, Mary. House of Light.Boston : 1990
First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. This is an advance review copy, with a letter from the publisher loosely inserted.
House of Light is the ninth book of poems by Oliver. It includes her poem "The Ponds", in which Oliver memorably defends herself from the charge that her work is too idealistic about the world:... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 146956
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OLIVER, Mary. White Pine.New York, San Diego & London : 1994
First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. This is an advance review copy, with the publisher's press release laid-in. White Pine is Oliver's eleventh collection, in which "she writes of the silky bonds between each person and the natural world" (dust jacket); it includes "The Sea Mouse" and some of her earliest prose poems.
Mary... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 146952
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OLIVER, Mary. No Voyage and Other Poems.Boston : 1965
First US edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page, the scarce first book of poems by Mary Oliver (1935-2019). The US edition is expanded from the UK edition, published in 1963. It contains some of her first nature poems (on snow, trees, hawks, lakes, and the sea), which became her primary theme in later collections.
Reviewing... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 146939
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OLIVER, Mary. The Night Traveler.Clevaland : 1978
First edition, first printing, of the third book of poems by Oliver, in a scarce chapbook printed by Bits Press. Susan Salter Reynolds has described the "Blake-eyed revelatory quality" of Oliver's writing, and so the woodcut by William Blake reproduced on the front cover is a fitting compliment to her collection, which includes "Spring", one of her... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 146945
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TAYLOR, Thomas (trans.) Ocellus Lucanus on the Nature of the Universe.London : 1831
First edition of Taylor's translation of these four ancient Greek philosophers. The neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) was a prolific translator of ancient Greek writing, and was the first to translate the complete works of Plato and Aristotle into English. He was such a committed Hellenist that he and his wife are reputed to have conversed only... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 124726
