Oliver Wendell Holmes. Over the Teacups. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891.

Price: US$700.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Holmes on the flyleaf with the last stanza of his poem The Last Leaf. Laid is in an addressed envelope in Holmes' hand to famed American botanist Asa Gray. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Second state with Over the Teacups priced at $1.50 in the ads facing the title page. Original green cloth with gilt-stamped titles and decorations, top edge gilt; pp. (ii), 319pp, [3]. Light shelfwear near boards with a small pinhole to cloth near spine crown, a few minor stains to covers. Hinges starting but still secured. Bookplates to front pastedown are over several bookseller catalogue descriptions and a poem, brief catalogue description of this volume tipped in to rear endpaper. Recipient's name blotted out in the inscription, bled through to the first second blank, foxing to endpapers. Housed in a custom two-part cloth slipcase with leather spine label titled in gilt. Shows a bit of wear and light fraying. A presentable copy.

Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Over The Teacups. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1891.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, [2], 319pp, [3]. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover, gilt floral border on front cover, floral border stamped in blind on rear cover. Top edge gilt, light rubbing to spine tips and corners. This is the second state printing, with Over the Teacups priced at $1.50 in the advertisement opposite the title page. Binding "variant A." Housed in a green cloth chemise within a custom quarter morocco slipcase with green cloth boards, title in gilt on spine, decorative raised bands, sunning to spine. (Ives 196) (BAL 9027). Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "Oliver Wendell Holmes for Miss Emma Hitt Harris - Boston. October 9th, 1891."

Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.