THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL
by [HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Contents clean; mild rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Dr. Harold C. Ernst was first a star pitcher on the baseball team at Harvard and later a professor of bacteriology and pathology at Harvard Medical School. In 1919 he was the first recipient in America of the Gold-Headed Cane Award.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015374
- Title
- THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL
- Author
- [HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Contents clean; mild rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Forty-Ninth Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- Signed, 19th Century Literature, Autograph Letters, High Spots, Modern Firsts, Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Inscribed; 19th Century American Literature; Medicine;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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Charles Agvent
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