Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 203 pages, text clean & unmarked. Decorative title page, green ribbon marker (darkened strip on adjacent pages), t.e.g. Slight spine cock, ends & corners worn & frayed, front hinge just starting. Dark green cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine.
Seller: Monkey House Books, Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition: Gd+ Dust Jacket condition: No
Seller: FrierBooks, Washington, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.11 + shipping
Description: Beautiful copy of this noted work by the great American author, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Top edge gilt; deep blue cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Beautiful condition, probably never read as some pages are uncut, pages and endpapers nice and clean, very minimal edgewear. Illustrated.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 321 pages including Index. VOL.One : The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Red cloth boards with title in black rectangle at top of spine. 8x5.25". Frontispiece portrait of young author. Top edge is gilt; all corners are lightly frayed; ends of spine are crushed with wear. Marked over name on front flyleaf and foxing from there through to title page. Broken gutter rear cover pasted endpaper.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition: Gd+ Dust Jacket condition: No
Seller: FrierBooks, Washington, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 9 Volumes of a 13 volume set. Books are all bumped and worn at head and tail of spine and fore edge corners. Surfaces of several boards have discoloration spots. A few boards and spines have a few very small soil spots. "The Guardian Angel" has a heavily chipped paste-in title on spine. All others are intact. Each volume has a blind stamp on both the ffep and the title page as well as a penciled in name on the title page and small notation on rear paste-down. Pages are unmarked. Bindings are tight. Books have gold gilt top edge. The volumes included are: - The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table - The Professor at the Breakfast Table - The Poet at the Breakfast Table - Over the Teacups - Elsie Venner - The Guardian Angel - Pages From an Old Volume of Life - Medical Essays - Our Hundred Days in Europe/Index.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1895.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Howard Pyle illustrated edition. Two volumes. Brick cloth, gilt stamping. TEG. Black and white illustrations inlcuding 12 photogravures. Prize bookplate on pastedown of Volume I, dated 1897. Near fine.
Seller: Susan Davis Bookseller, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes: Red cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on front and rear covers, gilt lettering on spines, gilt top edges, frontispiece with tissue, numerous illustrations by Howard Pyle and photogravures, 474 pp. (both volumes combined). Both volumes with mild shelf wear and previous owner's nicely written signatures dated 1896 on the front free endpaper, clean texts, tight bindings. Volume II with small water drop (?) on front cover.
Seller: Bob's Book Journey, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good ++. Reprint. A set of four volumes of the thirteen volume set;The Poet. The Professor at the Breakfast Table,The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table and Over the Teacups. HC red cloth,gilt lettering on the spine.Leather blocks on spines holding title and author in gilt,all tightly adhered,with light chipping along spine folds.Light rubbing to bottom of spines and light wear to corners.Top edges are gilt,no prev.owner's markings.Tight bindings and pastedowns,clean text.
Seller: Deborah Fiegl, Bookseller, Perry, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Classic novel, embellished by Pyle's fine engravings. Remarkably well preserved, showing only slight darkening to spines, faint soiling to front board of volume two, and some rough edgewear on the top edges.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed binding. 1/2 leather bound over marbled paper (shell-veined Spanish with moire effect) with gilt rules; 5 raised bands on spine with gilt stamped floral design panels and gilt stamped title panel on black leather; top edge gilt; marbled end papers (same); tissue guarded frontispiece; silk ribbon marker separated and laid in. Attractive, bright, clean covers and spine; slight edge wear with boards just exposed; some darkening of leather on spine and along cover edges from previous leather treatment; spine title panel chipped along edges; short cracks at spine head/cover joints; tightly bound; bright, clean interior; many leaves unopened at fore edge - never been read. Binder's small stamp on front free end paper 'G. P. Putnam's Sons' and on rear free end paper 'The Knickerbocker Press'. 8vo, 352 pp; indexes. Cf, BAL #9059.
Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two Volumes, Full Maroon Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Lettering, Gilt Rules On Cover, Gilt Design On Edges, Elaborate Gilt Turns, Marbled Endpapers, All Edges Gilt. Gilt Bright, A Few Tiny Rubs At Edges, Hairline Crack To Front External Spine Edge Of Volume I, No Names Or Marks. Finely Made And Finely Bound, Very Well Preserved, Gift Quality. (From The Library Of Actress Marjorie Lord, But Not Marked As Such.)
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Holmes Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the breakfast table. Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1895.
Price: US$137.21 + shipping
Description: Deux volumes in-8 reliés, cartonnage toile de l'éditeur, avec texte et ornementations dorées sur les plats et le dos, xvi + 219 & vi + 254 pp. (numérotation continue sur le deuxième tome pour la numérotation arabe), magnifique édition avec de très belles illustrations hors-texte ainsi que des tête de chapitre et cul-de-lampe noir et blanc d'Howard Pyle ; menus incidents sans gravité, très bel état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande. Pyle Howard
Seller: Abraxas-libris, Bécherel, France
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A beautiful illustrated 2 vol. set of this classic book. Both volumes in fine condition, Vol 1 (219 pages) has a little fade at front corner, corner tips are all sharp. Volume 2 (253 pages) is fine. Presentation copy made by former owner to friend on day Christmas 1901. Presenter signed ffe on both volumes, otherwise fine. Top of text blocks are gilded. other edges are ragged as issued. Book is bound in nice brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Spine lettering is fine in gilt. A very fine set. 56 very well rendered period ( late 19th century) illustrations by Howard Pyle. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Oshtemo Book Sellers, Chester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This beautiful, matching, thirteen-volume complete set is bound in half light brown leather with leather tipped corners and marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt. Hubbed spines are all heavily ornamented in gilt, each with a burgundy and green label stamped in gilt lettering. Matching marbled endpapers. End-to-end on a shelf, this set spans 14.5 inches.VOLUME I: The Autocrat of The Breakfast Table; Every Man his own Boswell. 1896. Includes frontispiece of Holmes in black and white, protected by an india paper leaf. Indexed. xii, 321 pp. VOLUME II: The Professor at The Breakfast-Table with The Story of Iris. 1895. Indexed. x, 332 pp.VOLUME III: The Poet at The Breakfast-Table; He talks with his fellow-Boarders and the Reader. 1895. Indexed. viii, 360 pp. VOLUME IV: Over the Teacups. 1896. Includes frontispiece of Holmes in black and white, protected by an india paper leaf. Indexed. ii, 319 pp. VOLUME V: Elsie Venner; A Romance of Destiny. 1896. xvi, 487 pp. VOLUME VI: The Guardian Angel. 1896. xi, 431 pp.VOLUME VII: A Mortal Antipathy; First Opening of the New Portfolio. 1895. vi, 307 pp. VOLUME VIII: Pages From an Old Volume of Life; A Collection of Essays 1857-1881. 1895. vi, 433 pp.VOLUME IX: Medical Essays, 1842-1882. 1895. Includes frontispiece of Holmes in black and white, protected by an india paper leaf. Includes appendix. xvii, 445 pp. VOLUME X: Our Hundred Days in Europe. 1895. Indexed. 301 pp. VOLUME XI: (The Poetical Works, Volume I). 1896. Includes frontispiece of Holmes, yet the india paper leaf has been torn out. Earlier Poems (18-30-1836); Additional Poems (1837-1848); Medical Poems; Songs in Many Keys. Includes notes. x, 287 pp. VOLUME XII: (The Poetical Works, Volume II). 1896. Poems of the Class of '29; Poems from the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1857-1858); Poems from the Professor at the Breakfast Table (1858-1859); Poems from the Poet at the Breakfast Table (1871-1872); Songs of Many Seasons (1862-1874); and Songs of Welcome and Farewell. Includes Notes. ix, 306 pp. VOLUME XIII: (The Poetical Works, Volume III). Bunker-Hill Battle and Other Poems; The Iron Gate and Other Poems; Before the Curfew; Poems From Over the Teacups; Readings Over the Teachers. 1896. Includes notes and is indexed. vii, 294 pp.CONDITION: Overall moderate wear to the external covers. Many pages are uncut at the foredge. Leaves have lightly and evenly toned and are unmarked. Occasional chipping along page edges, but it is very little. An absolutely lovely set that looks lovely on the shelf. At over 17 lbs., due to the size and weight of this set, an additional shipping charge will apply. Full refund if not satisfied.
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.