May-Day and Other Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1867
First Edition
12mo. <i>-iv, <1>-205, blank leaf. Laid paper. Purple-brown cloth covered boards. Gilt fern imprint on cover. Blind-stamped fern on the back cover.  Gilt Publisher's device on foot of the spine. Title in gilt on the top of the spine. Chocolate end-oaoers. Top of closed page edges are gold gilt. 
 
Condition notes: Good Condition Overall with the below noted:
Damage to the top of the spine with a tear to the cloth at the top, and ~1" cosmetic split to fabirc at joint with cover. Loss of gilt over and between the "M" and "A" on word "May", and a question-mark shaped loss of cloth on the spine. Please see the upclose photographs. 
Shelf wear to the bottom of the spine; light bumping of all corners, and ~1" spot of rubbing with cloth loss exposing the board over the edge of the front cover board. 
Inside, the binding is very good and tight. Some cosmetic cracking and exposure of hinges noted near the middle of the volume.
 
Contents: 
MAY-DAY. 
THE ADIRONDACS.
OCCASIONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
BRAHMA
NEMESIS
FATE
FREEDOM
ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857
BOSTON HYMN
VOLUNTARIES
LOVE AND THOUGHT
LOVER’S PETITION
UNA
LETTERS
RUBIES
MERLIN’S SONG
THE TEST
SOLUTION
NATURE AND LIFE.
NATURE
THE ROMANY GIRL
DAYS
THE CHARTIST’S COMPLAINT
MY GARDEN
THE TITMOUSE
SEA-SHORE
SONG OF NATURE
TWO RIVERS
WALDEINSAMKEIT
TERMINUS
THE PAST
THE LAST FAREWELL
IN MEMORIAM
ELEMENTS.
EXPERIENCE
COMPENSATION
POLITICS
HEROISM
CHARACTER
CULTURE
FRIENDSHIP
BEAUTY
MANNERS
ART
SPIRITUAL LAWS
UNITY
WORSHIP
QUATRAINS.
TRANSLATIONS.