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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894). The Professor at the Breakfast-Table; with the Story of Iris. Boston: H.O. Houghton and Company for Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
8o (217 x 142 mm). Half-title. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, brown coated endpapers, edges gilt; morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Stephen H. Wakeman (bookplate), purchased at his sale through Seven Gables Bookshop, Parke-Bernet, New York, 23 February 1971, lot 385.
FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER ISSUE, one of 500 copies (there were 5000 copies printed of the trade edition). BAL 8791. VERY FINE COPY.
[With:]
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Autograph letter signed ("Oliver Wendell Holmes"), Boston, 23 December 1882 to an unnamed correspondent. 3 pages, 8o. Holmes discusses a relative in the South: "It would have been strange if he and my boy had met on the battle field, when my O.W.H. Jr... managed to pick up five bullet-holes, and is none the worse for any of them." He mentions that he is glad the recipient likes his books, and forwards a SIGNED CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH (included), signed by Holmes ("Oliver Wendell Holmes"). Also with an engraved portrait of Holmes.
8o (217 x 142 mm). Half-title. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, brown coated endpapers, edges gilt; morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Stephen H. Wakeman (bookplate), purchased at his sale through Seven Gables Bookshop, Parke-Bernet, New York, 23 February 1971, lot 385.
FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER ISSUE, one of 500 copies (there were 5000 copies printed of the trade edition). BAL 8791. VERY FINE COPY.
[With:]
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Autograph letter signed ("Oliver Wendell Holmes"), Boston, 23 December 1882 to an unnamed correspondent. 3 pages, 8o. Holmes discusses a relative in the South: "It would have been strange if he and my boy had met on the battle field, when my O.W.H. Jr... managed to pick up five bullet-holes, and is none the worse for any of them." He mentions that he is glad the recipient likes his books, and forwards a SIGNED CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH (included), signed by Holmes ("Oliver Wendell Holmes"). Also with an engraved portrait of Holmes.