LITERATURE 30 31EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays. Boston, 1841. Octavo, original brown cloth, custom slipcase. $11,500 “Trust Thyself: Every Heart Vibrates To That Iron String” First edition of Emerson’s collection 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). With 12 essays, including Emerson’s celebrated “Self-Reliance,” as well as essays on love, friendship, heroism, “the Over-Soul,” the intellect and art. Just a touch of rubbing to extremities, faint discoloration to front cover, very nearly fine. “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.”
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