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Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PRESENTATION COPY AUTOGRAPHED BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "George Stewart, Jr. Esq. with the kind regards of Oliver Wendell Holmes." This was Arthur Swann's copy with his bookplate. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Original green decorative cloth with gilt top edge. Catalog description slip tipped to flyleaf, small clipping tipped in at page 92 otherwise very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Our Hundred Days in Europe. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1887.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition (BAL binding A). Octavo. iv, 329pp., and 14 pages of advertisements at the back. Publisher's gray green pictorial cloth stamped in dark green on front cover, gilt spine, top edge gilt. An early presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper: "J. Lewis Stackpole with the kind regards of his friend and neighbor Oliver Wendell Holmes. November 30th 1887". The spine is moderately darkened with fading to gilt lettering, front and back endpapers are toned and lightly dust soiled, a very good copy. *BAL* 9006.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition following very shortly after the English edition. BAL binding B, priority undetermined. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy with Autograph Poem on Stonehenge. Inscribed with the concluding stanzas of The Broken Circle (at p. 172 in the present volume): Cold is the Druid's altar-stone, Its vanished flame no more returns, But ours no chilling damp has known, Unchanged, unchanging still it burns So let our broken circle stand A wreck, a remnant, yet the same While one last, loving, faithful hand Still lives to feed its altar flame Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston, March 17th 1888 Tipped in at the back is a leaf in the author's hand: "J.R. Kendall Esq, 29 Pemberton Square, With the thanks of O. W. Holmes" BAL 9006 Original dark green,cloth, beveled edges, winged urn in gilt on upper cover, in blind on lower, top edge gilt, blue-black coated endpapers, 14 pages publisher's advertisements at back. Slightest rubbing of cloth, one leaf with minute tear in margin (carelessly opened). Near fine First American edition following very shortly after the English edition. BAL binding B, priority undetermined.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.