Oliver Wendell Holmes - Elise Venner a Romance of Destiny

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1895. Leather. A lovely leather bound copy of Elise Venner, a romance of destiny by Oliver Wendell Holmes. From the series of The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, being volume five of thirteen of the Riverside edition. Elise Venner A Romance of Destiny was later described as the first of his 'medicated novels' being both an author and a physician. The story follows a young woman whose mother was bitten by a rattlesnake whilst pregnant and the child has some characteristics of the reptile. Oliver Wendell Holmes Bound by Sotheran Sackville. In signed binding by Sotheran Sackville, in half morocco. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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