THE LIFE OF EMERSON

NY: Dutton, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Kent, Rockwell (bookplate by). Emerson's life and work as told by one of America's most literary biographers. With the book plate of Maxwell Steinhardt designed by Rockwell Kent on the pastedown. Maxwell Steinhardt (c1890-1977) was a Manhattan attorney and an avid book collector. An admirer of George Bernard Shaw, Steinhardt was president of the Shaw Society of America. Book covers moderately dusty around edges. Dustjacket toned about edges, more at spine which has a sliver of loss at its head.