Malibu: Joseph Simon, 1980. This is one of Emerson's most enduring works. His "representative" men are Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe, each presenting to Emerson a particular quality. This is a Fine copy, presented in a Fine Binding by a small press. Based on the 1903 edition, with an introduction by Myron Simon. Blue linen cloth binding, blindstamped with a portrait of Emerson on the front cover. Clean and fresh text; xiv, 204 pages. There is no city listed, but Joseph Simon was known to publish his lovely books in Malibu, California. A beautiful production. No dustjacket; with a slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus.. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Fine.

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From the book:IT IS NATURAL to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal it would not surprise us. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic; that is, their genius is paramount. In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet. Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society; and, actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors. We call our children and our lands by their names. Their names are wrought into the verbs of language, their works and effigies are in our houses, and every circumstance of the day recalls an anecdote of them.

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Bookseller: Quercus Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002833
Title: Representative Men
Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Thus.
ISBN 10: 0934710023
ISBN 13: 9780934710022
Publisher: Joseph Simon
Place of Publication: Malibu
Date Published: 1980
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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