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The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1889. First Edition Thus. Leather bound. Near fine. Finely bound collection of The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes as printed by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1889. Inscribed by the author to the Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital.. Octavo, [nine volumes]. Three-quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards. Title in gilt on spines with gilt embellishments. All edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers. No additional printings listed on copyright pages. Solid text block, some rubbing to corners and thin scratches to spines. Internally bright and clear. Inscribed by Holmes on the front flyleaf of Page from an Old Volume of Life: "To the Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital from the Author / Oct. 28th 1889." The Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital, which this collection was presented to, was announced in Hudson, Wisconsin in 1887. This collection includes the following works: Pages from an Old Volume of Life, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, The Guardian Angel, Our Hundred Days in Europe, A Mortal Antipathy, Elsie Venner, and Poetical Works.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15261
- Title
- The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Illustrator
- Finely bound collection of The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes as printed by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1889. Inscribed by th
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- first edition Oliver Wendell Holmes, autocrat breakfast table, signed book Oliver Wendell Holmes, one hundred days in Europe, soundings from the Atlantic, man of destiny lippmann, professor at breakfast table
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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