Elsie Venner
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- first
- Condition
- About very good in original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, somewhat cocked and rubbed with prior owner name in ink,
- Seller
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Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Holmes's first novel. His medical background, and job as a professor at Harvard Medical School, was an important influence on the novel's storyline, as the book is narrated by . . . a medical school professor.
12mo. 2 vol. [i-ix], x, [xi], xii, [13]-288; [i-iii], iv, [5]-312 + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated January 1861. Bleiler pg. 151; Wright II:1249, BAL 8801; Ives pg. 176.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22
- Title
- Elsie Venner
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Book Condition
- Used - About very good in original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, somewhat cocked and rubbed with prior owner name in ink,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1861
Terms of Sale
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Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB
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- Points of Issue
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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