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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Last Leaf (Poem). Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1886.
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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. 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.
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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.