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Oliver Wendell Holmes et al. The Harbinger; A May Gift. Carter, Hendee & Co., 1833.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Original dark green cloth with paper spine label, in modern custom chenise and slip-case. Contains 17 poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Light wear, front joint splitting, foxing at front and rear; gift inscription dated 1847 on ffe; else very good copy of a fairly scarce volume.
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes et al.. The Harbinger; A May-Gift. Carter, Hendee and Co, Boston, 1833.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1833 correct 1st edition, without the printed copyright notice (BAL 8723). 17 poems attributed to Oliver Wendlell Holmes. Solid and VG in its original dark-green boards, with spotting at the endpapers and pastedowns, and former owner name ("W.S. Morton") at the front free endpaper. Light spotting as well to the panels, light chipping to the paper title-label along the spine and very mild bumping at the spine ends. Still though, sturdy and very presentable. Octavo, 96 pgs.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.. The Harbinger; A May-Gift. Boston: Carter, Hendee, 1833, 1833.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. BAL 8723. Holmes contributed 17 poems which form the second part of the volume. Neither his name nor that of the two other contributors appears in the book. Publisher's cloth; top of spine chipped; some other wear; paper spine label worn; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Harbinger; A May-Gift. Carter, Hendee and Company, Boston, 1833.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small octavo, vi, 96pp. Full red morocco, gilt-ruled covers. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Silk bookmark sewn in. This work is in three parts, with Poems by Park Benjamin in Part I, seventeen poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes in Part II, and poems by John O. Sargent in Part III. Solid text block, faint wear to joints, a near fine example. Previous ownership bookplate of Robert Hoe III affixed to front endpaper. (BAL 8723) Provenance: Anderson Galleries, April 1912, Lot 1559. Robert Hoe III was a prominent American businessman and book collector. He was a founding member and the first president of the Grolier Club of New York.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: Foxing, heavy on endpapers. Gift bookplate from Isaac Mansfield to Harvard dated October 22, 1845. Original blue cloth rebacked with title in gilt on spine. First edition. The Harbinger was compiled and sold to raise funds at a fair on May-Day in Boston to benefit the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind. Contains 17 of Holmes' poems, including The last leaf and The ballad of the oysterman. BAL 8723; Blanck, American first editions, 253; C&T, p. 22.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: With engraved portraits of Holmes and Benjamin laid in. Original blue cloth with paper spine label; lightly foxed. In a cloth slip-case. First edition. The Harbinger was compiled and sold to raise funds at a fair on May-Day in Boston to benefit the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind. Contains 17 of Holmes' poems, including The last leaf and The ballad of the oysterman. BAL 8723; Blanck, American first editions, 253; C&T, p. 22.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.