[HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL]. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo, original brown cloth, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed; quarter morocco slipcase. Later edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Holmes on the half-title: "Mrs. Davis, My old friend 'Lucy Stimson' from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sept. 15th 1860."

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[HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL]. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo, original brown cloth, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed; quarter morocco slipcase. Later edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Holmes on the half-title: "Mrs. Davis, My old friend 'Lucy Stimson' from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sept. 15th 1860."

Provenance

Arthur Swann, bookplate (see his sale, lot 204).

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