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The American Transcendentalists: Their Prose and Poetry
by Miller, Perry (Ed)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1957. Paperback Original (PBO) . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Gorey, Edward. First Edition, first printing, of this paperback original (Anchor A119), collectible because of the cover art & typography by the late, great Edward Gorey. Content-wise, the book is a brilliant introduction to the Transcendentalist writers of New England, focusing on the 1830s, when the movement flourished. Writers include Emerson, Thoreau, Channing, Brownson, Fuller, & Bronson Alcott, along with their European counterparts in the movement, Coleridge, Carlyle, & Goethe. 388 pgs, Index. Condition is solidly VG: very tight & clean, with minor rubbing to extremities, extremely slight spine creasing. Light tanning to inside covers only. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015273
- Title
- The American Transcendentalists: Their Prose and Poetry
- Author
- Miller, Perry (Ed)
- Illustrator
- Gorey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Paperback Original (PBO)
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Doubleday Anchor
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- WRITERS NEW ENGLAND NINETEENTH CENTURY EDWARD GOREY ILLUSTRATION POETRY TRANSCENDENTALISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories; Illustrated Books/Illustrators / Edward Gorey;
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