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The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cabinet Edition

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, 1899-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1899 PRINTING. 453 pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Gilt top page edge. Covers (blue boards with gilt) show light edge wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owner's name/drawing on end paper. Book slightly shelf-cocked.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Oxford University Press - Henry Frowde, 1906. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1906. First Edition Thus. 307 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with white spine. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Binding is weak. Water marking to top edge of pages and text block. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Spine is heavily tanned. Book has forward lean. Water marking present.
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Doubleday Dolphin, No date given. Paperback. Very good/N/A. First printing of Dolphin edition. Aside from a large stamp on first free paper, all other pages are clean and unmarked. Minor edge wear and age toning to covers.
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The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Dole, Nathan Haskell, intro/ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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New York: Crowell, 1899. 1st Edition thus? . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Gladstone Edition. Gold-stamped deep red cloth, general edgewear, back hinge cracked. 1906 gift note FEP. Frontispiece w/ tissue guard. Serviceable reading copy 4507 shelf
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press. Fine copy in slipcase. 1955. 1st. hardcover. Small 4to, 281 pp., Sandglass newsletter laid-in. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. .
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Dorothy Q Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Nearly fine copy in the original decorated cloth. 1893. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 131 pp. .
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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New American Library, 1961. Paperback. Good. 1961. First Printing. 283 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Sticker to front surface.
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Over The Teacups

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston, New York, Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & the Riverside Press. Good. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Condition is good minus. Book is cocked. Covers are slightly soiled. Title page has foxing to edges. Front free endpaper has a vertical strip of paper loss, all the way through, apparently where a label or something was removed. ; Bal 9027, Binding C. .
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Songs Of Many Seasons 1862-1874

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston: James R. Osgood & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine has light wear to the ends and is slightly faded. Owner information is written on a front blank page. ; Bal 8895. .
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Urania: A Rhymed Lesson

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1846. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 31pp, wraps missing, text clean. This is the first state, with star noted at title page. See BAL 8745..
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The Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Introductory Notes by Alfred Lief; Foreword by George W. Kirchwey

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New York: The Vanguard Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. A littlr wear spine ends; .
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Professor at the Breakfast-Table, The

Professor at the Breakfast-Table, The

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The Gresham Publishing Company; London., 1111. Presumed first printing thus. Undated. . Hard. Good-. 16mo. 6 1/4. Portrait frontispiece.. Good-. Lacking dust jacket. Publishers lightly faded cloth with gilt lettering and tooling to front and spine. Spine was very faded. A little darkened. Edges and corners lightly rubbed. General wear and marking on covers. Mild page browned internally. Beautifully decorative art nouveau style endpapers . Top edge gilt. Uncut pages. 390pp.
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Mechanism In Thought And Morals An Address Delivered Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society Of Harvard University, June 29, 1870

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston: James R. Osgood & Company. Good. 1871. First Printing. Hardcover. Condition is good minus. Covers have large patches of discoloration. ; "With notes and afterthoughts." BAL 8876. .
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Our Hundred Days in Europe
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Our Hundred Days in Europe

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Boston And New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, dark green cloth beveled boards decorated in gilt on front and spine. Exterior cloth shows only minor scuffing along with minor edge and corner bumps. Internal binding is good and text pages are tight, no hinge cracks noted. Pages are lightly tone due to age and some very minor spotting and foxing is present. Second front end page contains original owners name and address along with an 1888 date, no other handwriting found. An attractive copy board bordering on near fine condition.
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John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir

John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners and heavier wear to extremities of spine. ; Memoir of John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877), American author and diplomat. ; Ex-Library; 7.25" tall; 278 pages.
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes His Book Notices and Uncollected Letters and Papers

by Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell

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Central Book Co, 1936-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No dustjacket as issued. 8x5x1. From the private collection of prominent Oregon lawyer Glenn R. Jack with his bookplate on front pastedown & his signature on front & rear endpapers. Pastedowns & pages toning with age otherwise text and images unmarked.
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Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny. In Two Volumes. Volume II.

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ticknor and Fields. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Volume 2. Spine slanted, crown slightly chipped. (paranormal fiction, predestination, birthmarks)
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The Poet at the Breakfast-Table: His Talks with his Fellow-Boarders and the Reader

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1872, First Edition, Second state ("table" correct on pg. 9). Hardcover, 8vo., maroon cloth, bevelled edges, gilt title and winged urn on front cover. 418 pp. Very Good copy, no dust jacket. Spine sunned; light wear to cloth at tips. Light foxing throughout; text is unmarked and still bright.
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Phillips,Sampson and Company. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. 2nd state (no period after company on title page, no vignette on title page, 4 fleur-de-lis on spine). Clear wrap added. Hinges cracked, binding shaken. (essays, satire)
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THE STORY OF IRIS

by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

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Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First Separate edition. Hardcover. good . 32mo, 108 pages, embossed brown cloth Osgood's Vest Pocket series. [BAL 9132].
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