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Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volume set. Faded purple cloth with gilt titles and decorations and closed pages.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Houghton Mifflin Boston 1894, 1894.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good + Edition Not Specified Printing Not Spec. 12mo = 7-9" No DJ n/a Complete in 2 volumes. Riverside Press - Cambridge, MA. Reddish cloth covers w/gilt lettering on front and spine and small decoration near spine. Bookplates on inside of front covers of both volumes. none
Seller: Heritage Books, Southampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Description: Black and White illustrations by Howard Pyle, with tissue guards. VG+, without dust jacket. .
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.45 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no. 6 of 250 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 219, (1); vi, 474 pp, with 15 photogravure plates and further illustrations in the text, some light spotting, bound in the original gilt titled vellum, marked, t.e.g. Tipped in at the front of the first volume is a leaf inscribed from the Author ".Dear Sir, You will find the ruse you ask for on the next leaf."; and on the other side seven lines of verse, starting "Build the more stately mansion, O my soul.". The note is dated "Jan. 6th 1881" and the verse "January 11th 1882", so unless the Author took a year completing this task one of these dates is in error.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 Volumes. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1894. #183 of 250, Large Paper Edition. First thus with Pyle illustrations. 8vo. 474 pages, Index. 13 full-page gravure plates with printed guards, many vignettes. Full vellum decorated and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Binding moderately soiled, boards slightly warped, tiny split to lower front joint of Vol. I. Owner's name on each pastedown, and brief Christmas gift inscription in pencil dated 1893 on front blank of Vol. I, few small spots, paper bright. BAL 9215.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 274 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Pyle, Howard. First Trade edition. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 2 vols. 8vo. BAL 9215 Original brown cloth. Very good Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 2 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. #13 of 250cc of the large paper edition. Two volumes in three quarter leather over marbled boards; extremities lightly worn, else a nice set.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Pyle, Howard. Large Paper Edition, no. 63 of 250 copies. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 2 vols. 8vo. BAL 8215 Full vellum, spines and boards ornamented and titled in gilt, t.e.g. Usual slight spotting to spines, upper portion of half-title of first volume cut away, another signature partialy effaced, else Very Good. Rare thus Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 2 vols. 8vo Large Paper Edition, no. 63 of 250 copies.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The autocrat of the breakfast table. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Half-title and title in red and black, frontispiece in each volume. With 13 plates. Full vellum, decorated in gilt, top edges gilt. A bright, clean and uncut copy with the bookplates of Carroll Atwood Wilson and Edwin B. Holden. Large paper limited edition, number 1 of 250 numbered printed. Pyle (1853-1911) was one of America's foremost illustrators known for the timeless quality of his work. Some of the other works written and illustrated by him are Book of pirates; The story of King Arthur and his knights and The merry adventures of Robin Hood. BAL, 9215; C&T, p. 81.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.