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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell -- Limited Edition
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 1965. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 1965 LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER. 325 pages. Beige boards with doorknob design on front cover, brown cloth spine with gold lettering, offset lithographic decorative endpapers. Photograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Lowell W. Maxham, from The Bettmann Archive. Light shelf wear, small surface tear on front free end page. "Originally published in 1858, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table is a series of personal essays ostensibly recounting the boarding-house breakfast-table conversation of 'the Autocrat' and his table-mates -- the Professor, the Landlady, the Schoolmistress, the Divinity Student, and so on. The book is both a timeless depiction of a witty, urbane, and genial critical intelligence, and a vivid record of 19th-century America in general, and Boston intellectual circles in particular.". Foreword by Jean A. Bradnick; The Autocrat's Autobiography; The Author's Preface, 1882; The Author's Preface, 1891; The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
Offered for US$ 5.25 by: Yesterday's Muse Books - Book number: 048344
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