The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion: Vol. 2, No. 3: January 1842
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, James Russell Lowell, and others.
Boston: E.P. Peabody, 109 Washington Street, 1842
Original magazine in original wrapper.
Octavo. pp. [273] 274-408. 
 
Condition Notes: Fair Condition.
The original cover wrapper is fair condition with a tear and missing section to bottom left.  Lacks back wrapper and much of spine paper cover. The binding is good and the pages are secure. Scattered foxing over the front pages. Other pages are near fine condition.
 
About:
This a scarce single issue in the original printed wrappers. Started by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and other members of "The Hedge Club",  "The Dial" was one of the most important American literary magazines of the 19th century,. Around 300 people subscribed to the magazine. Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the editors, ended up with multiple extra copies in his attic. Emerson hired a "bin man" to dispose of these copies! Today, it is very rare to find surviving issues of any parts of "The Dial".  This is a treasure for any transcendentalist collector's library. 
 
Contents include:
Margaret Fuller's contributions:
“Yuca Filamentosa.” pp. 286-288
"Bettine Brentano and Her Friend Günderode.” pp. 313- 357.
"Epilogue to the Tragedy of Essex.”  pp. 380-382.
 “Motherwell’s Poems.” pp. 393-394.
“Monaldi, a Tale.”  pp. 395-399.
“Wilde’s ‘Conjectures and Researches.’”  pp. 399-407.
“Boston Academy of Music.”  pp. 407-408.
 “Theory of Teaching.” pp. 408.
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson contributions:
“The Park" pp. 373-373
“Forebearance", pp. 373
 “Grace", pp. 373-374
"The Senses and the Soul", pp. 374-380
"Transcendentalism", pp. 382
“The Ideal Man.”
 
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody:
"Plan of the West Roxbury Community"  (Describes the plan for Brook Farm Transcendentalist Community).