Essays. Second Series. By R. W. Emerson. United States Book Company, no date specified. Hardcover, 248 pp. Blue cloth with gilt letters on spine and gilt top edges. Heavy wear to head and heel of spine. Book is otherwise only slightly aged. Contents: "The Poet," "Experience," "Character," "Manners," "Gifts," "Nature," "Politics," "Nominalist and Realist," and Emerson's "Emancipation Address," delivered in Concord on August 1, 1844.