Baker, Carlos — Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait

New York, Viking, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Carlos Baker's magnum opus, published just posthumously, focusing on the 19th Century Romantics and environmentalists including Ralph Waldo Emerson but also Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Amos Bronson and Alcott Margaret Fuller. A fine looking, big, tall, Imperial octavo format hardcover copy. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" and with frontis matter and 608 pp. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good