EMERSON, RALPH WALDO | An Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1837

The Property of a Gentleman

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO

An Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1837

8vo. Some foxing, some staining to title-page. Original brown printed wrappers; stain to upper wrapper, some splits and creasing, a few ships, with some loss to spine. In clamshell case; cover detached. 

First edition of Emerson's "American Scholar" address

"The clarion cry, to think, to create, to become a productive scholar, and above all to fulfil yourself as an individualist."  

REFERENCE:

BAL 5183; Grolier, American 100 43