Author: HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL
Title: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1955. Hardcover. A famed collection of essays, poems and musings, first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine from 1831 to 1832. Physician, author and general scholar Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.] (1809-1894) was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, a well-known Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This deluxe edition features R. J. Holden illustrations and an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Sandglass leaflet laid in (New York, no. V:20). --- In full grey cloth-covered hardcovers with Holden illustations pasted to front & back covers; titling in gilt on brown spine block. Interior leaves of a buff-colored stock; all textblock edges stippled in brown. In black paper-covered slipcase. --- With scratches to title block on spine, otherwise a clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy lacking additional damages. Minor soiling & scratching to structurally sound slipcase.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall ; xvi, 281 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>American Society, Life in the Us >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Illustrated Classics >>Heritage Press Editions
Title: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1955. Hardcover. A famed collection of essays, poems and musings, first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine from 1831 to 1832. Physician, author and general scholar Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.] (1809-1894) was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, a well-known Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This deluxe edition features R. J. Holden illustrations and an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Sandglass leaflet laid in (New York, no. V:20). --- In full grey cloth-covered hardcovers with Holden illustations pasted to front & back covers; titling in gilt on brown spine block. Interior leaves of a buff-colored stock; all textblock edges stippled in brown. In black paper-covered slipcase. --- With scratches to title block on spine, otherwise a clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy lacking additional damages. Minor soiling & scratching to structurally sound slipcase.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall ; xvi, 281 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>American Society, Life in the Us >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought >>Illustrated Classics >>Heritage Press Editions
Price: US$ 13.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86748
- Book number: 86748