Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . . . . 8vo, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Vg condition. Covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 78 pp., illus. 19th, American, Century, Literature, Popular,
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.. One-Hoss Shay: With its Companion Poems.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston:, 1905.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 38 color illustrations. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on front paste-down and on bottom edge, else very good in brown, decorated cloth. No dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.. THE ONE HOSS SHAY.. Houghton Mifflin Co.:, 1905.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Each of the three poems here collected has had a wide popularlity, and the general similarity in their character led the publishers to issue them in a single volume in 1891. The collaboration of Mr. Howard Pyle, then as now one of the foremost American book illustrators, and for this new edition, Mr. Pyle has practically redrawn in color his own original illustrations, with results that give the volume an additional charm." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER. Brown cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine and cover. Some wear of cloth on lower edges of book, internally fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback book (no dust jacket) titled THE ONE-HOSS SHAY With its Companion Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Illustrated in color by Howard Pyle. Published in 1905 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Boards show scuffing/rubbing at edge - foxing on endpapers - several pages with crease. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-2A-bottom-middle) rareviewbooks
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark green stamped cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Top edge gilt. An October 12, 1820 date written on front flyleaf. Tissue guarded frontispiece is excellent. Paste downs and flyleaves toned exactly the same indicating a previous cover. A hint of rubbing at extremities. A very clean and tight copy.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 78 [2] leaves printed on rectos only. Illustrated in Color by Howard Pyle. 12mo, publisher's olive cloth, blind-stamped and gilt-lettered. First edition. 1906 ink ownership signature; light rubbing to cloth at edges; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Publisher's olive green gilt embossed cloth with gilt top foreedge and date on title page. A clean, unmarked copy with bright cover gilt and a thick Mylar plastic protective jacket.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description:
Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition. Spine tips and cover corners are worn. A few light foxing spots on endpapers. 80 pages printed on one side with 62 color illustrations. Top edge gilt. Short 8vo size.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 80p. A hardcover book bound in decorated tan cloth. Very good condition overall. Corners lightly bumped; light scratches and smudges on back cover. Owner's inscription inside front cover and scattered small blemishes in page margins. Tissue frontis protector is detached and torn, and has pencil doodles on it (a previous owner attempted to trace the frontis). Otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated throughout with color pictures by Howard Pyle.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: 80p., illus. All illus. and decorations in color. Printed only on the recto. BAL 9258 Very good condition; spine & edges worn
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: New edition with illustrations redrawn in color. 78, [4]pp. Green embossed cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, full-page, and in-text color illustrations by Howard Pyle. Name on front free endpaper, toning to spine. Internally extremely clean. A bright, very good+ copy. BAL 9258. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, with the original Pyle illustrations reproduced in color. A few pages roughly opened with resulting chips in the margins, slight rubbing to the boards, a handsome, very good or better copy. *BAL 9258*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: - Octavo, 8-1/8 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Green cloth titled and decorated in gilt on the front cover and the spine with a repeat pattern vignette of a horse-drawn carriage stamped in blind on the covers. The top edge is gilt. The corners and head & tail of the spine are bumped. 78 & [2] pages, each printed on one-side only, with a color title page device, and 61 color illustrations and decorations by Howard Pyle. Two previous owners' names, with their addresses, are penned on the front endpaper. A few page corners are slightly creased. Very good. A new edition with the illustrations now in color. "For this new edition Mr. Pyle has practically redrawn in color his own original illustrations." - [Publisher's Note page 3].
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus. Illustrated in color by Howard Pyle. Olive green clothcovered boards stamped in gilt and blank. Owner bookplate on the front pastedown, the spine very slightly cocked, toning to the spine, and some bumping to the spine ends and corners, very good, with only the front panel of the rare dust jacket laid in.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. THE ONE-HOSS SHAY. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1905.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus; publisher notes "For this new edition [Howard] Pyle has practically redrawn in color his own original illustrations, with results that give the volume an additional charm." Name on endpaper, light rubbing to spine ends and tips, otherwise bright and fine with gilt lettering and design and page top edges gilt. Lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition with these Pyle color drawings. With Illustrations in Color by Howard Pyle. Printed on the rectos only. 79pp. 1 vols. 8vo. JOHN BARRYMORE'S COPY. "For this new edition Mr. Pyle has practically redrawn in color his won original illustrations (first issued in 1892), with results that give the volume an additional charm." Publisher's Note. BAL 9258 Publisher;'s brown staright ribbed cloth, with blindstamped repeating one hoss shays , stamped in gold. Bookplate of John Barrymore With Illustrations in Color by Howard Pyle. Printed on the rectos only. 79pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition with these Pyle color drawings.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 80 leaves printed recto only. 21 x 14 cm. Sixty-eight color lithographs by Howard Pyle. Reissue of Pyle's edition without color, first published 1891. "Mr. Pyle has practically redrawn in color his own original illustrations, with results that give the volume an additional charm." Early 20th century owner card on free endpaper discussing her pleasant rides in one hoss shay's. Clean, bright copy, slight rubbing to spine ends. Orig. decorated cloth. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good, 1905 Hardback, tooled cloth, no marks, color illustrations throughout by Howard Pyle, binding tight
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition with these Pyle color drawings. With Illustrations in Color by Howard Pyle. Printed on the rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. "For this new edition Mr. Pyle has practically redrawn in color his won original illustrations (first issued in 1892), with results that give the volume an additional charm." Publisher's Note. BAL 9258 Deluxe limp brown calf binding stamped in blind with repeating one hoss shay motif. VG. We have not had this binding before With Illustrations in Color by Howard Pyle. Printed on the rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo First edition with these Pyle color drawings.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Howard Pyle. The One-Hoss Shay. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1905.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition thus, illustrated in color by Howard Pyle. Octavo. 80pp printed rectos only. Brown cloth stamped in gold. Owner's inscription on front fly, rear boards with a thin abrasion at top edge, else a fine, very bright copy in very good or better dust jacket with light overall wear. The publisher's introduction states: "For this new edition Mr. Pyle has practically redrawn in color his own original illustrations, with results that give the volume an additional charm." An elusive title in dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.