15 “Trust Thyself: Every Heart Vibrates To That Iron String” 17EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays. WITH: Essays: Second Series. Boston, 1841-44. Two volumes. Octavo, original black and dark brown cloth, custom chemise, clamshell box. $10,000 First editions of Emerson’s first and second series of timeless essays, scarce in original cloth. “Emerson’s fame… rests securely upon the fact that he had something of importance to say, and that he said it with a beautiful freshness which does not permit his best pages to grow old… Let men but stand erect and ‘go alone,’ he said, and they can possess the universe” (ANB). “Timeless, and without a trace of ‘dating,’ these essays are as readable, and to a considerable extent as much read, today as a hundred years ago” (Grolier, 100 American 47). The first series includes Emerson’s celebrated “Self-Reliance,” as well as essays on love, friendship, heroism, “the Over-Soul,” the intellect and art. The second series includes the essays “The Poet,” “Experience” and “Nature.” Scattered foxing, more heavily at endpapers, second series with light marginal dampstaining. first series cloth with restoration to spine ends, second series cloth with light discoloration to boards, wear to spine ends. Extremely good condition. “A Route Of Evanescence / With A Revolving Wheel; / A Resonance Of Emerald, / A Rush Of Cochineal” 16DICKINSON, Emily. Poems. Second Series. Edited by two of her friends, T. W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. Boston, 1891. Small octavo, original gilt-stamped olive cloth, custom clamshell box. $13,000 First edition of Emily Dickinson’s second book of poetry, one of only 960 copies of the first printing. A lovely copy in the original cloth. Emily Dickinson published only 11 poems during her lifetime, but upon her death in 1886, her sister Lavinia discovered 1775 manuscript poems. Mabel Todd edited and published the three series of these poems until a quarrel between the Dickinson and Todd families led to a division of the manuscripts, preventing the further publication of complete and authoritative editions of Dickinson’s poetry until 70 years after her death (Wolff). This is the second of three books of Dickinson’s poetry published by Mabel Todd. Myerson A2.1a. Interior with minimal foxing to first few leaves only, front inner hinge expertly reinforced; mild rubbing to cloth spine extremities, gilt bright. A lovely copy.
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