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Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 286pp, 16pp publisher's ads. Blue cloth-covered boards, blind-embossed design all around, reverse titles gilt spine label. Fore text block edge untrimmed. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends, cloth worn through, loss to fore edge of front board. Top text block edge dust damaged, remaining edges starting to tan. Top and fore edges of endpapers water stained; front hinge cracking and stretching, volume loose. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Otherwise, internally neat and clean
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition, small octavo, rebound in full olive green leather, five raised bands with embossed decoration and titles stamped in gilt across spine, frame rules on front and rear covers, slight fading to spine, new marbled end papers, 286 pages plus two pages of publisher's list. [QP]
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$99.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original purple binding with gold titles and emboss decoration. 279 pages. 16 page publisher's list at back. Owner's name on title page, otherwise internally spotless and free of foxing. Cover faded. A firm, straight copy of the first edition. Scan available.
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Description: pp. (iii), 4-286, (ii) Book List dated November 1860. Original purple embossed cloth now faded, new matching front free end-paper, a very good copy. *Published simultaneously with the American, Boston, edition, this English edition is considerably scarcer. During the rest of the decade, it was re-issued with the addition of a lengthy bookseller's catalogue for that year. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894), physician, poet and essayist, see GARRISON-MORTON #6274 & #6276 for his papers on puerperal fever, 1842-43 and 1855, and #6390 for Medical Essays 1883 - 'The most important American book dealing with the history of medicine up to its day'.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: With 2 pages publisher's advertisements dated November, 1860, and a 16-page publisher's catalogue dated June, 1863, bound into the back (different leaf size). Original blue pebbled cloth, decorated in blind. Morocco bookplate of Alfred Sutro, small bookbinders label to rear paste-down. First English edition. Includes the poems The boys, A mother's secret, The crooked footpath, and Iris, her book, amongst many others. C&T, p. 90.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$513.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sampson Low, Son & Company, London, 1860. Blue Cloth. Book Condition: Good. First British Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 286 pp, index, followed by a 2-page list of titles in preparation dated 1860, curiously followed by a 16-page catalogue published by Sampson Low, Son & Marston dated 1869. Presumably, though the leaves were printed in 1860, the book was bound some 9 years later. The rear pastedown has a small sticker bearing the wording, "Bound by W Bone & Son, Fleet St London". The covers are blind-stamped and the title and author's name are set in a gilt panel on the spine. The spine and the covers are worn, and the spine has darkened. The page edges are dusty. Both hinges are sound and the binding is firm and there are no loose pages. The title page is tanned, and there is foxing to the opposite page. Includes a letter in Oliver Wendell Holmes hand, dated 1887, to J Rogers Rees, author of The Diversions of a Bookworm , who also signed the book (the envelope address has been cut and pasted to the front pastedown and is in OWH s hand). J Rogers Rees also inscribes the book to a Will Griffiths. With a letter by the Author and Inscribed by J Rogers Rees (Author of The Diversions of a Bookworm . Scarce. Condition Report Externally see above and photos Internally see above and photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1860 Binding: Cloth
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom