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(Saturday Club). Emerson, Edward Waldo (Vol. 1); DeWolfe Howe, M. A.; editor (Vol. 2). THE EARLY YEARS OF THE SATURDAY CLUB 1855-1870. Together with: LATER YEARS OF THE SATURDAY CLUB 1870-1920. (2 volumes).
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918; 1927. 1918; 1927. Good
- Large squarish octavo, green cloth & navy blue cloth titled in gilt on the front covers & spines. The covers are bumped & rubbed & the spines are slightly faded with the heads & tails lightly chipped. There are white score marks to the covers of Vol. 1. The covers of Vol. 2 are lightly spotted with light score marks. There is a crease to the Vol. 2 spine & the gilt titling on the spine is faded. xii, [ii] & 515 pages; and xvii & 427 pages. There is an owner's name stamped on the front endpaper of each volume. The inner edge of the Vol. 1 rear pastedown is stained. Vol. 2 is cracked at the frontispiece, its rear hinge is cracked & the front edges of a few pages are roughed. Illustrated with many black-and-white & sepia-toned portrait plates with tissue guards, including a frontispiece in each volume. Good only. First edition of each volume. The Saturday Club was founded in Boston in the mid-nineteenth century. Among its many distinguished members, who included New England poets, scholars, statesmen, lawyers, businessmen, etc., were Louis Agassiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James and John Singer Sargent.
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50.00 USD
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