Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1809 - 1894]. Pyle, Howard - Illustrator
Title: The ONE - HOSS SHAY With Its Companion Poems
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. 1st edition thus (BAL 9258; Davis PM0772; Tilton, p. 238). Olive green vertically-ribbed cloth binding with gilt lettering & decorations. TEG. 78 ll. Text printed recto only. Color frontis & 67 other color illustrations by Pyle. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-3/8". Nr Fine (light wear to extremities/dj flap offset to eps)/VG (some edgewear, with old paper repair to rear panel upper right corner). A posthumous reissue of Pyle's edition, which was first published in 1891. For this 1905 publication, "Mr Pyle has practically redrawn in color his own original illustrations, with results that give the volume an additional charm." [as quoted in Davis].

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