Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Poems By Oliver Wendell Holmes. William D. Ticknor & Company, 1849.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A fine copy in the original dark brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind; January 1st 1849 ads at front. First issue (p. 187 'Perpsichore'). This copy is near perfect, with only faint hints of wear to cloth, and occasional traces of foxing or browning to text. The binding is tight and without trace of restoration. Laid in loose is a 6-line Autograph Note Signed by Holmes, dated 1879. The A. Herbert Bellows copy.

Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Poems. New and enlarged edition. William D. Ticknor & Company, Boston, 1849.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: Full calf, spine gilt in compartments with red label, gilt rule borders to covers and gilt dentelles, edges gilt. With contemporary ownership inscription to front free end-paper dated Dec., 1848. ONE OF FIVE COPIES BOUND IN MOROCCO. First edition, first issue, with the characteristic misprint "Perpischore" at the top of page 187. Several of the poems appear here for the first time in book form, including A modest request; Nux postcÅ"natica; A song of other days; and The stethoscope song. "The [Ticknor and Fields] Commission account book A, page 214, under the date December 12, 1848, notes five copies in full calf." BAL, 8750; C&T, p. 42.

Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Poems. William D. Ticknor & Co., Boston, 1849.

Price: US$806.25 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description:

Seller: Bookworm & Pen Books, Roseville, MN, U.S.A.

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Poems. New and enlarged edition. William D. Ticknor & Company, Boston, 1849.

Price: US$1850.00 + shipping

Description: With 4 pages publisher's advertisements between fly-leaf and paste-down. Original brown cloth, worn, chip at head of spine; interior spotting and browning. Presentation inscription from the author to Mr. Charles G. Eastman on fly-leaf. PRESENTATION COPY. First edition, first issue. BAL, 8750; C&T, p. 41.

Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.