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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Soundings From The Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Pebbled purple cloth, tarnished gilt-stamped spine title. Hinges and joints starting, some loss of the spine ends, spine and edges faded, thus good only.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 468, 22pp, blind embossed green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration and Ticknor Fields monogram at spine, chocolate pastedowns and endpapers, spine ends frayed, extremities worn, corner points worn through, cloth split 1-inch at top front gutter, light wear to covers. This first edition with ads dated November was limited to 3000 copies, and the green cloth, according to Currier & Tilton, was the most scarce. BAL 8829.
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Soundings From The Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$31.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book of various essays. Bread and the Newspapers (about the Civil war), My Hunt after the Captain (Civil War), The Stereoscope and the Stereograph, Sun-Painting and Sun-Sculpture, and many others, 468 pages plus 22 pages of book ads at the end dated NOV. 1863 as found in first editions. Minor cloth wear to corners and minor chipping to spine top otherwise book is in very nice condition. A wonderful first edition.Front Inside pastedown contains a bookplate of the "H. Young's Circulating Library" listing this book as number 607. There are no other library marking of any kind. The typed name George Graybill has been pasted above the bookplate on a tiny piece of paper.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 468 pages, plus 22 pages of ads. Green textured cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. The covers are soiled with rubbed and frayed spine ends and cover corners. The hinges are tender and the contents show some light soiling and foxing. Good+.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book has cover wear, bumped corners, somewhat faded spine, owner signature and bookplate. Catalogue is dated November 1863.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. First edition. Very good in faded purple cloth with gilt title to spine. The cloth has faded to tan. Red and black title page; ads at rear; brown coated endpapers. Dampstain to edges of later pages. Darkening to margins and a few spots of foxing. 468 pages. Literature. LIT/3113.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 468 pp + 22 pp publisher's ads. Bound in original plum cloth; spine faded and stained, corners lightly rubbed, occasional minor foxing, but generally clean and tight. An interesting collection of essays, including one on the stereoscope and stereograph and two relating to the Civil War.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell.. Soundings from the Atlantic.. Ticknor and Fields., Boston., 1864.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: San Francisco Mercantile Library stamp with "received 1863" on title page. Good, moderate wear to covers, lacks back endpaper. 8vo. [6] 490 pp. + 22 pp. ads. Blue bindstamped cloth, gilt spine title.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with B/W drawings. Additional 22 pages of advertisements. Contents: The U. S. In 1863. Observations on inventions; Civil War; Organ; Stereograph & photography. Front internal hinge with paper tear, cover firmly attached. Military, Civil War; B&W Drawing; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 468 pages
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Soundings From The Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Small octavo. 468, 22 ads pp. Spine gilt dulled, binding with corners worn and some loss and splits at the spine ends, a small portion of the crown neatly strengthened, very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Octavo, original blindstamped purple cloth over boards. Collection of essays on various topics by Holmes. BAL #8829. Very good, spine faded to brown, pocket at rear pastedown but no other indications of library ownership.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. Ticknor and Fields, 1864.
Price: US$52.20 + shipping
Description: SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC, Ticknor and Fields, 1864, first edition, light wear with some cloth loss to the extremities of the lightened spine, second f.e.p. removed, else a tight vg copy in the publishers original blind stamped cloth with 22 pages of November, 1863 ads bound in the rear.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Soundings From The Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Includes 22 pages of Ticknor and Fields book catalog dated November 1863 at the end Very good with a lightly faded and chipped spine. Former owner's name in pencil on front free endsheet. Lovely clean tight copy Brown cloth, completely blind stamped
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Earliest (?) issue, with publisher's catalog at rear dated November, 1863. 12mo (7-1/8"); original blue-green embossed cloth boards; brown clay-coated endpapers, [i-viii],[1]-468pp + 22pp publisher's catalog. Title page printed in red and black. A straight, firm copy with a few faint splash spots to front boards; Very Good. Blanck notes this title in several bindings; this is the green "Z" cloth, no priority given. Early collection of Holmes's essays originally published in The Atlantic. Includes his two essays on the Stereoscope, "The Stereoscope and the Stereograph" and "Sun-Painting and Sun-Sculpture; with a Stereoscopic Trip Across the Atlantic." BAL 8829.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blind-Stamped Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6_" - 7_" tall. This collection of essays, first published in the Atlantic Magazine, includes 'The Stereoscope and the Stereograph,' and two other essays on photography. Holmes invented the American Stereoscope in 1860. The first edition was 3,000 copies, with the November, 1863 advertisements. Ref.: Currier-Tilton, pp. 123-4; BAL 8829. Very tight and clean. Gilt titling has faded, but still readable. [Loc.Rare]
Seller: ReREAD Books & Bindery, Little Rock, AR, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Illustrated. [i - viii], [1] - 468 pp. 22 pp. publisher's catalog. 1 vols. 12mo. Includes several chapters on photography: "The Stereoscope and the Stereograph;" "Sun-Painting and Sun-Sculpture; with a Stereoscopic Trip Across the Atlantic;" and "Doings of the Sunbeam.". BAL 8829 Original purple cloth. Spine faded; otherwise fine Illustrated. [i - viii], [1] - 468 pp. 22 pp. publisher's catalog. 1 vols. 12mo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First printing. Earliest (?) issue, with publisher's catalog at rear dated November, 1863. 12mo (7-1/8"); original blue-green embossed cloth boards; brown clay-coated endpapers, [i-viii],[1]-468pp + 22pp publisher's catalog. Title page printed in red and black. A tight, straight and attractive copy, with just a hint of rippling to cloth on front and rear boards, two small spots of rubbing to rear joint; Very Good or better. Early presentation in pencil, "Stolen by D.L. Brownell from H.C. Brownell," undated, to first flyleaf. Blanck notes this title in several bindings; this is the green "Z" cloth, no priority given. Early collection of Holmes's essays originally published in The Atlantic. Includes his two essays on the Stereoscope, "The Stereoscope and the Stereograph" and "Sun-Painting and Sun-Sculpture; with a Stereoscopic Trip Across the Atlantic." BAL 8829.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.20 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. 4 p.l., 468 + 22(Publisher's ads). original blind-stamped cloth (front flyleaf & front blank wanting, one gathering sprung with upper edge of outer leaves bit tatty, light dampstain to outer margin throughout). First Edition. Including several chapters on photography: The Stereoscope And The Stereograph; Sun-Painting And Sun-Sculpture; With A Stereoscopic Trip Across the Atlantic; Doings Of The Sunbeam. Holmes is credited with having invented the American stereoscope in 1860. BAL 8829.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. , 1864.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First edition. [viii] 1-468 pp., + 22 pp. publisher's advertisement dated November, 1863. Octavo, bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and blind-stamped boards. An attractive near-fine copy, it is clean inside and out, showing only a bit of negligible wear to cloth. Early gift inscription - within weeks of publication, dated 25 December 1863, to Moorfield Storey (American, 1845-1929), an attorney and an important civil rights activist who served as the first president of the NAACP, with his bookplate on front pastedown. All but one of the articles in this compilation first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, from 1868 to 1864. Included are some of Holmes' essays on photography, including "Stereoscope and the Stereograph." (BAL 8829; Currier & Tilton, pp. 123-124).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Soundings From The Atlantic. Ticknor And Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$202.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 468 Pp + 22 Pp Publisher's Catalog At Rear Dated November 1863, With Near-New First Edition Original Spine Cloth, Git Brilliant, Bound In. 3/4 Calf, 5 Bands, Gilt In All Compartments Green Cloth, Green Endpapers, Top Edge Gilt. Light Wear Along Front Spine Edge And At Points Of Tips., Spine Faded From Darker Brown To Lighter Brown, All Gilt Brilliant.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Holmes Oliver Wendell. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. Boston Ticknor and Fields 1864, 1864.
Price: US$214.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo, publishers original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in blind on the covers. 468, (22 ads) pp. A good copy, with some age to the binding and textblock. A COLLECTION OF FASCINATING ESSAYS INCLUDING TWO DEALING WITH THE STEREOSCOPE AND OTHERS WITH THE CIVIL WAR. Worthwhile and intelligent writing by one of Americas preeminent authors.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Title in red and black. Full green morocco, gilt spine and dentelles, with maroon glazed end-papers. An excellent copy from the library of Jonas Bikoff with his bookplate.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1864.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 468pp. + 23pp. ads (dated March 1864). 1st Edition, Later Issue. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Autograph letter signed by Holmes, to one "My dear Mr. Osgood" (the Boston publisher who would later publish some of his works?) mentioning his receipt of tickets to hear Mr. Edwards' lectures (however he must decline) is tipped in after the front free endpaper. He mentions that he is satisfied with the "wonderful invention and its results". This is the Charles B. Foote copy with his beautiful bookplate on the front pastedown (engraved by Edwin Davis French). Foote was a banker whose bank collapsed in 1884. In 1894 part of his library was sold at auction. The catalogue entry from that auction catalogue has been clipped and attached to the back pastedown, along with Dorothy Furman's bookplate. Furman was a respected collector of bookplates and hers is beautifully printed. The price $7.00, handwritten on the catalogue entry is scribbled out-apparently the price realized at unfortunate Foote's auction. Bookplate of Charles Clifford Dibble on the front free endpaper. I guess that makes this the Foote\Furman\Dibble\Kirk\Speed copy, in terms of provenance (you can add your own name to the list when you buy it). Chip from the backstrip. Corners bumped and rubbed through. Spine ends chipped. Some separation along the front joint. Hinges cracked. Lacking the rear free endpaper. Some waterstain along the top edge of the text block, barely perceptible in the top margin. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Jon Speed: The Book Scout, Azle, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Publisher's green cloth, title page printed in black and red, with a 22-page publisher's catalog dated November 1863 at the rear. Fading of the gilt spine lettering, light scattered foxing mostly at the margins, else near fine. Presentation copy Inscribed by John Greenleaf Whittier: "Lydia Maria Parrington, with the best wishes, of J.G. & Elizabeth Whittier." John and his sister Elizabeth H. Whittier had maintained a close relationship until her death in 1864, thus making this one of the last of his inscriptions with her name. A handsome, well-preserved copy. *BAL* 8829.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Soundings from the Atlantic. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864.
Price: US$3600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original purple cloth. Spine faded. Half morocco case. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his friend and fellow fireside poet James Russell Lowell from his friend O.W.H. an excellent New England literary association. This volume contains a selection of Holmes s essays originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, which Lowell edited. The two shared commitments not only to poetry and writing (both were also members of the Dante Club) but also to abolitionism. Holmes wrote a poem to Lowell on his 70th birthday, beginning: A health to him whose double wreath displays / The critic s ivy and the poet s bays.
Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.