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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. POEMS. Otis, Broaders, And Company, Boston, 1836.
Price: US$45.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 163 pages, brown cloth covers with paper label to the spine. Rough exterior, cracked spine, lacks front free endpaper. The contents are foxed, yet bright and complete. This is a Good copy for reading or reference.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Poems. Otis, Broaders, and Company., Boston, 1836.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original brown silk cloth. Some foxing; spine slightly chipped; at edge but overall a very good copy of Dr. Holmes's first book, preceded only by a number of small pieces.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition with Boston imprint only, of Holmes' first book. Embossed Dark brown cloth, 5 X 7 3/4 inches, 163 pages. Spine lacking, pages foxed. Sold as is.
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Poems. Otis, Broaders, Boston, 1836.
Price: US$83.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's first book, which includes poems written in 1830 while a law student at Harvard ("The Dorchester Giant", "Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian", "Evening, by a Tailor" and "The Height of the Ridiculous") all of which would become among his best known. Rebound in dark blue cloth, including the original pages from the half title through p163. With just a bit of scattered foxing.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. POEMS. Otis, Broaders, and Company (Boston), USA, 1836.
Price: US$98.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Title page does NOT mention the New York publisher. Original dark green cloth (zigzag patterned in blind). Paper title label (heavily browned). 16 and 164 pages. Fairly clean tight text with a little marginal staining. Covers quite clean. Spine has been REBACKED using greater part of original.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Poems. Otis, Broaders, and Company, Boston, 1836.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher's green blind embossed zigzag pattern cloth (BAL Binding C, no priority), paper title label, (8 x 5.25 inches). True FIRST EDITION with Boston imprint only. 163 pages. Printed in Cambridge by Folson, Wells, and Thurston. The author's first book containing poems written while a law student at Harvard. Showing overall wear, heavest at head and tail of spine and corners, some loss to paper title label, expected typical foxing througout heaviest at the prelims. Former period owner's signature "Elizabeth" on front endpaper. BAL 8729 Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Sr. Poems. Otis Broaders, Boston, 1836.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Thin 8vo, embossed cloth, chipped at the extremes of the spine and corners; paper spine label mostly gone; light foxing. Boston: Otis Broaders, 1836. First Edition. Despite defects noted, a very good, solid copy of the first issue of the author's first book.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. POEMS. Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Company,, 1836.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue. BAL 8729. Boston imprint only on title-page. In a custom contemporary half morocco binding by Stikeman and Company. Very good plus: fading to spine, wear and abrasion at the extremities. Faint scattered foxing and soiling within. Green morocco over marbled boards with gilt rules, marbled endsheets, spine lettering, raised bands, gilt top edge. Though Holmes had earlier published broadsides, chapbooks and made anthology appearances, this is his first book. This example is extra-illustrated: a tipped-in, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the poet has been bound in.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. POEMS. Otis, Broaders, and Company, Boston, 1836.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 163p. A hardcover book bound in full black leather with marbled foredges and endpapers. Very good condition overall. Small rub marks on the edges and spine, and foxing throughout the interior. The text is otherwise clean and the binding is secure. The first edition of Holmes' first book. A handsome 19th-century binding!
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.. Poems. Boston: Otis, Broaders, & Co,, 1836, 1836.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; original publisher's cloth (BAL cloth 'C', no priority established); some foxing; paper title label mostly perished; overall a very good copy of Holmes's first book. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Poems. Otis, Broaders, and Co., Boston, 1836.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. First Edition, bound by Stikeman in full green morocco, covers triple ruled in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands, t.e.g., original cloth bound in at rear. Excellent copy. Tipped in is a nice autograph letter signed in which Holmes assures the recipient that he will give an opinion of the poem sent to him.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; publisher's green cloth; there are imprints with or without the New York publisher and the BAL does not assign any priority. Some foxing; paper spine title label slightly chipped; overall a very good copy of Holmes's first book, preceded by a number of small pieces. In a custom quarter-morocco slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. POEMS. Otis, Broaders: Boston, 1836.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7.75 x 5", rebound in full crushed Morocco; teg, 163pp with original cloth covers and back strip of gilt included at rear, covers rubbed and unevenly sunned, spine a bit dry, outer hinges quite worn, but still a nice copy. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (Boston imprint only), Blank "Cloth A", INSCRIBED "For Mr. G.N. Williamson.Boston, Oct. 31 1887" AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. SCARCE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.