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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. THE LAST LEAF: Poem. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Cambridge, MA, 1886.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1886, not paginated, illus., gilt & black design & lettering to cover, tipped in illus. of Holmes, some soiling & shelfwear to cover, bookplate to fep, newpaper clippings to fep, heavy foxing to a couple pgs, rest have light foxing, owner's anme to title page & one other page, otherwise text is unmarked, no dj.
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Last Leaf (Poem). Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1886.
Price: US$18.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good hardcover. No DJ. Ex-Library with usual markings. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing and soiling. Tears on spine . Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.. The Last Leaf: Poem.. Houghton Mifflin,, Cambridge:, 1886.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. First edition. Folio, bound in cream and gray cloth with gilt lettering and design, top edge gilt. Moderate soiling to boards, hinge repairs to front endpages, else good. B007E2N888
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 54p., + illus. Printed on one side of leaf. 32cm BAL 8992.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The Last Leaf. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. Fair with top edge gilt, in cream colored cloth spine with pictorial grey cloth covered boards, a tear down most of the front gutter and at the bottom rear gutter up about four inches, corners bumped and worn through, ink notations on front endpaper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The Last Leaf. Houghton Mifflin & Co, Cambridge, 1886.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrations by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. 4to. Beige and grey cloth with gilt lettering and black and gilt decorative stamping. 50pp, (3pp). Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 27 full-page illustrations (as called for). Good plus. Binding rather edgeworn (more so at head and tail of spine) and as usual a bit rubbed, scuffed and age toned; inner hinges artfully reinforced with cream cloth tape, though internally tight 'n' bright and a sound very good. A tight and nice first of this illustrated edition of Holmes' memorable 1830 poem -- inspired, strangely enough, by Herman Melville's uncle, Thomas Melvill, one of the last of the Boston Tea Party survivors. Stretched out over many leaves, this over-the-top Victorian, almost Art Deco-ish rendition is interspersed with quaint illustrations.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Last Leaf: Poem (First Edition). Houghton Mifflin Co., Cambridge, 1886.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing. Grey and white boards with white spine. Gilt title and pictorial boards. Letters on spine have faded and a soiled. Top edge gilt. Gift inscription dated christmas 1885 on the front flyleaf. Overall in FAIR PLUS condition. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition (1886 date on title but copyright 1885; no additional printings listed, probably intended for sale during 1885 Christmas season). Consists of a 15 1/4 x 21 inch original gray cloth portfolio with a wax ribbon seal containing two free endpapers , title and copyright pages, contents page and then 12 single sided 15x20 3/4 inch sheets with excerpts from "Under the Willows" by Lowell, "Last Walk in Autumn" by Whittier, and "The Crooked Footpath" by Holmes, each accompanied by an appropriate black and white plate, 12 in all, by Smith, phototyped by the Lewis Co. The portfolio is fair to good, heavily soiled and smudged, with a tear along the length of the side edge of the right flap. The endpapers, title page, contents and poems are age yellowed, with several having 1/2 to 1 inch deep creases along edges, and occasional tears and chips. Happily the plates, mostly bucolic, of the Romantic school with a hint of Impressionism, are on much better quality ivory-white paper with the thickness and heft of thin flexible cardboard. Each has some relatively moderate foxing along the blank borders and reverse side, with only some rather rare, stray spots of foxing on the illustrations themselves. Plate I has a 1/2 to 3/4 inch deep crease along most of the top edge with a 2 inch tear along the fold, a 1/2 to 3/4 x 5 inch long crease on lower edge, Plate II has a 1/4-1/2 x 4 inch crease along the lower edge, Plate VII has smudging on the blank borders, Plate X has some irregular tanning on the upper border and a 1/2 x 3 inch crease on the lower corner. All said, if matted, these peccadilloes would lose their significance, and indeed, the prints are of the type often seen framed and going for rather high prices, which was probably the fate of most copies of this interesting book. Art; prints; plates; Victorian; gift book; poems; literature. HEAVY & OVERSIZED
Seller: Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA, Fleetville, PA, U.S.A.
Holmes Oliver Wendell. THE LAST LEAF. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1886.
Price: US$148.27 + shipping
Description: Good in boards. Repaired open tear down half of spine. George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Last Leaf. Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1886.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Last Leaf Poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards & F. Hopkinson Smith, Houghton Mifflin & Co. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1886, 50 pp, decorative grey and cream cloth, 13 x 9.75, folio. In good condition. Soiling to cloth and cream linen spine with darkened edges and fingersoiling. Slight split along front joint at bottom and top edges. Gilt remains bright and clean. Spine darkened from soiling and time. Corners rubbed with light fraying. Small abrasions to surface of cloth overall. End papers slightly toned and age stained, free of markings or ownership. Facsimile letter of Holmes and a portrait are placed inside. Instances of fingersoiling at the margins with light toning throughout. Free of known marginalia. Binding remains tight and intact. Please see photos. Beautifully illustrated Art Nouveau of The Last Leaf. Grouped among the fireside poets, American physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes also served as a physician, professor, lecturer, inventor, and, although he never practiced it, he received formal training in law.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The Last Leaf. Houghton Mifflin & Co, Cambridge, 1886.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. Folio. The boards are covered with contemporary muslin with needlework lettering and illustration on front and back covers that matches the style of the illustrations. Spine a little soiled, and muslin a little loose at the spine, a charming, near fine example. Unexamined out of the needlework cover, but no obvious evidence of damage.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Holmes' classic poem. Folio, original publisher's half vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, top edge gilt, illustrated by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Ulysses S. Grant's daughter Nellie Grant, "Oliver Wendell Holmes for Miss Nellie Grant" and additionally signed and inscribed by him on the second blank with a stanza from The Last Leaf, "And if I should live to be the The Last Leaf upon the tree in the Spring, Let them smile as I do now At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston December 21st 1885." Soon after South Carolina's secession from the Union in 1861 and the start of the Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes began publishing piecesâ"the first of which was the patriotic song "A Voice of the Loyal North"â"in support of the Union cause. Although he had previously criticized the abolitionists, deeming them traitorous, his main concern was for the preservation of the Union. Less than a month before Johnson issued a proclamation that declaring the end of the War, Holmes was approached by the Semi-Centennial Committee of the New England Society to write a poem honoring Ulysses S. Grant, the guest of honor at the grand opening of a theater on New York Cityâs Fifth Avenue on July 31, 1865. In response, he wrote the poem "Dinner with General Grant" which remains one of the great tributes to Grant as Commanding General of the Union Army. Nellie Grant was the third child and only daughter of Grant and his wife Lady Julia Grant. At the age of 16, Nellie was sent abroad to England by President Grant, and was received by Queen Victoria and she attracted much attention as a teenager growing up in the White House. In near fine condition. Grouped among the fireside poets, American physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes also served as a physician, professor, lecturer, inventor, and, although he never practiced it, he received formal training in law.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.