Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter (inscribed)
NY: Little, Brown, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed boldly on the title page: "For Linda Henning, with the admiration and good wishes of her friend, John McAleer." Uncommon signed. "Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter is both an authoritative and a very personal biography of one of the most distinguished figures in American literature and a leader in the transcendentalist movement. In this intimate portrait Emerson earns our affection as much as our admiration because, for the first time, he emerges as a man of sympathy as well as high ideals, a man whose courageous struggles were as compelling as his ideas." McAleer was an English professor at Boston College. The recipient published on Thoreau and was a member of the Thoreau society. Grey cloth boards with brown cloth spine. Black-and-white illustration/photo insert at middle. A near fine copy with just a couple spots of foxing to lower board edges, plus brackets and a little underling in a blue pen in the third chapter only, "Parental Ties." In a very good jacket with, wear to spine ends (mild fraying at top) and corners. Near fine / Very good. Item #2181
ISBN: 0316553417
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