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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School-Boy. Houghton Osgood and Co, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Description:
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The school-boy. Houghton, Osgood and Co, 1879.
Price: US$8.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School-Boy. Houghton Osgood Boston 1879, 1879.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: Good Edition Not Specified Printing Not Spec. 12mo = 7-9" No DJ 80pp Brown cloth covers are bumped and worn on top/bottom of spine and corners. Silver lettering on front and spine, with an illustration of a butterfly and bird in gilt. Top of spine has small tear. Covers are soiled, ink spot on front cover, light areas on back cover, mildew spotting. Front hinge is cracked and cover is loose. Frontispiece is almost completely loose. Foxing throughout. Illustrated endpapers. Gilt fore edging. none
Seller: Heritage Books, Southampton, MA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School-Boy. Houghton, Osgood & Co. Boston 1879, 1879.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Description: 79pp. sq. 8vo illustrated in black and white by D.C. Hitchcock, J. Appleton Brown, F.T. Merrill, W.L. Sheppard, and A.R. Waud gilt pictorial terra cotta cloth, bevelled edges, t.e.g. BAL 8931: 1st published edition Cloth lightly soiled, VG-/no dj
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. The School-Boy. Houghton, Osgood and Company, The Riverside Press, 1879.
Price: US$24.99 + shipping
Description: Terra-cotta cloth stamped in black silver and gold over bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Cover has wear and rubbing, but the silver, gold, and black decoration is still bright. Corners are bumped, rubbed, and frayed. Binding is intact, but rear hinge is beginning to crack. Some pages have small marks and spots, possibly ink and/or finger smudges. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.
Seller: Firefly Bookstore, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School Boy. Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown decorative cloth over beveled edged boards. A little rubbing on edges. Black endpapers. Clean throughout. All edges gilt. B/W illustrations
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School-Boy. Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. First Edition, First Printing (private edition published a year earlier). 8vo. 79pp. Decorated brown cloth stamped in silver, gold, and black, beveled edges, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers, text printed on rectos only. Very good condition, edges briefly worn at ends of spine and corners, interior very good, occasional light spots. With full-page and vignette engravings by various artists. BAL 8931; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 79 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HB NODustJacket, 1879,1st Edition, NF-/VG, AS-IS, NODJ, Green & Black decorated cloth with White ,cover light rub, wear Scuff & tiny Chips Extremities, some light stains Cvr, Interior nice, tight some Wear FoX, all edges pgs Gold Gilt, 79 pages
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School-boy. Houghton Osgood the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1879.
Price: US$30.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pp.79. Illustrated. Embossed calf with title gilt on spine & marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Decorative Gilt border along all edges of pastedowns. Some light internal staining. Overall v.g. Attractive copy. Scarce First UK Edition.
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School Boy. Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gray cloth with black, silver, and gold. Nicely illustrated.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver W.. The School Boy-Illustrated. Houghton, Osgood, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: Corners / spine-ends. inside hinge cracked. pages have age spots. illustrations good. 1st published edition. Fair / illustrated stamped terracotta cloth soiled / worn at
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School-Boy.. Houghton, Osgood, 1879.
Price: US$44.10 + shipping
Description: First edition. Fine poems. - To the students of Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; read at the centennial celebration, June 6, 1878. - Clean copy and in best condition 79 pages with 28 illustrations in woodcut Publisher s brown cloth with beveled edges, front cover lettered in white and with a black and gilt stamped design, same motif repeated on spine, decorative coloured endpapers, all edges gilt / Illustr. Orig.-Lwd. mit Gold- u. Schwarzpr., Goldschn.,
Seller: Buch- und Kunst-Antiquariat Flotow GmbH, Ottobrunn, Germany
Holmes, Oliver. Wendall. The School Boy. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black, white, and gilt designs on front board and spine. Bright gilt page edges. Many black & white illustrations, some full page. 79 pages. Very hard to find.
Seller: Arch Bridge Bookshop, Bellows Falls, VT, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School-Boy. Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Terra-cotta cloth stamped in black silver and gold over bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Printed on rectos only. Illustrated with full page and vignette engravings by various artists. BAL 8931. Private inscription on blank prelim. A very nice, clean copy, a quite handsome example of Victorian printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.. The School Boy. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879, 1879.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First Published Edition. Publisher's decorated cloth. BAL 8931. Bookplates; hinges cracking; 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 School-Boy. Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, was preceded by a private printing, which lacked the title page, a title, and the author's name. Decorative red-brown cloth stamped in black and two-tone gilt, all edge gilt. Illustrated by D.C. Hitchcock, J. Appleton Brown, F.T. Merrill, W.L. Sheppard and A.R. Waud. Blank preliminary page cut out, contemporary owner's name on front fly, small tide line on bottom corner of frontispiece, edges worn with spine ends and corners frayed, about very good. Poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The School-Boy. Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition book in very good custom-made box. With 28 illustrations; 5 (including frontispiece) are full page with tissue. Blue cloth covered beveled-edge boards. Front panel has dark blue narrow triple-ruled edging: a center band of dark blue with raised floral and gilt illustrations, and a black background panel in the center with silver gilt lettering and illustrations surrounded by a gilt edge and gilt and silver illustrations; spine is similarly decorated. Extremities are sunned. Several stains and smudges on front and back panels. All edges are gilt. Crimping and scuffs along edges at head and tail of board spine; fore-edge corner tips are barely rubbed through. Colorful end papers with subtle date and gift notations of previous owner. Previous owner inscription on blank page after FFEP; this page is almost completely separated. Solid slip-case is custom-made by The Rose Bindery. Green cloth with letter on spine. Several scuffs on spine. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The School-Boy. Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo (21.3 x 15 cm). 79 pages. Frontispiece, illustrations in text. Printed on rectos only. Original decorated beveled cloth, decorated endpapers, edges gilt. FIRST TRADE EDITION, first issued privately without a title-page nor identification of the author. Holmes read this poem on 6 June 1878 at the centennial of the founding of Philips Academy in Andover, MA. BAL 8931. Chipped at ends of spine, light wear at corners, but an attractive copy
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.]. THE SCHOOL-BOY. Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 79p. A decorated brown cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Corners and spine extremities lightly worn. Patchy but light tanning on endpapers. Previous owner's inscription on blank front endpaper and note on last page; otherwise clean and tight. Scarce in such nice condition. The first edition of this lengthy poem, preceded a year earlier by a privately printed edition. Beautifully illustrated in a striking decorative cover with gilt foredges. BAL 8931.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The school boy. Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: With engraved frontispiece, 25 cuts, and 4 engraved plates. Original decorated cloth over beveled boards, with decorated pictorial end-papers, lightly rubbed at corners, as well as head and foot of spine, small tear to top right corner of top board; some off-set browning and spotting to end-papers, and some light spotting to preliminaries. Bookplate of the "House of Whittemore" tipped in to recto of fly-leaf. First edition of this poem, which was read on June 6, 1878, at the centennial of the founding of Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, the school Holmes' attended as a boy. This, the first published edition, was preceded by a private printing, which bore neither a title page, a title, or the author's name. BAL, 8931; C&T, p. 169.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. THE SCHOOL-BOY. , 1879.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. THE SCHOOL-BOY. Illustrated by D. C. HITCHCOCK, J. Appleton BROWN, F. T. MERRILL, W. L. SHEPPARD and A. R. WAUD. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. First trade edition. Dedicated to the Students of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. 79 pp. 8vo., brown cloth, beveled boards stamped in gilt, black and white, a.e.g. Boards shelfworn, corners and spine frayed. Cloth and decoration bright. Extra set of gilt decorated endpapers is inserted after front endappers (publisher's error). Signed by Holmes and dated April 23, 1880 on recto of frontispiece. B/w illustrations. Overopened at title page, else clean and tight. BAL 8931.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.