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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 18.5 x 2 cm. 12mo. 4 [ads] 39pp. A card SIGNED by Holmes, "Beverly Farms, Mass., Sept 6th 1887" is affixed to the front fixed endpaper. From the library of noted collector Henry William Poor with his bookplate. In BAL binding style "A'" in cream-yellow boards with publisher's list dated October 1850. First printing state "B" with the "&" on the copyright page somewhat above the line and signature mark on p. 33 set under "ag". No priority established between state A and B. Spine is heavily chipped. Catalogue of the Library of Henry W. Poor #579. BAL 8757.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.. Astraea. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850, 1850.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. BAL 8757; first printing, state A; binding A. Publisher's boards; spine perished, and while the boards are in very good condition, the book needs to be resewn and rebacked; a short 1887 holograph letter signed by Holmes is tipped in. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: BAL 8757: First Printing, State B (A?), Binding A of original glazed boards; 39 pages: 2500 copies printed of this poem delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College on 14 August 1850. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "H. W. Longfellow/With the compliments of/O. W. Holmes." An absolutely superb presentation copy linking two giants of nineteenth century American Literature. With the bookplate of the Longfellow Collection of Harvard College Library on the front pastedown, deaccessioned. Dampstain to slightly more than the lower half of nearly all of the pages but not affecting the inscription. Spine, as is usually the case, partly eroded. Still Very Good. One could not hope for a better association
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.