An Oration, Delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

$1,500 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. Side-stitched octavo, measuring 9 x 5.75 inches: 30, 2 . Original blue wrappers printed in black. Contemporary ownership signature to front wrapper. Light shelfwear, soft vertical crease from folding. Housed in custom slipcase and chemise. First and only printing of Emerson’s important early address at Dartmouth, one of 1000 copies, often republished under the

• Binding: Wrappers

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