Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Phillips, Sampson and Company, Boston, 1859.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Large Paper Edition. ALS tipped-in to the front endpaper. Near Fine. Brown pebbled cloth, lightly rubbed at the head and foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, hinges with minor expert strengthening. An early state of the text with the illustrations, a later state binding with "Ticknor & Co" on the spine.

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.

[Holmes, Oliver Wendell]. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell. Phillips, Sampson and Company, Boston, 1859.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, Large Paper printing. 8 plates, integral but not reckoned in pagination. Title-page in black and red. [ii], viii, 373 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo (8-5/16 x 5-1/2 inches). Signed by Holmes, Jr. Signed in blue ink and dated May 23, 1930, by then Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. BAL 9093, binding A; Currier-Tilton pp 73-4 Publisher's beveled maroon pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blindstamped frame to covers, a.e.g. Head of spine repaired, front joint split, inner hinges strengthened with binder's tape. Neat contemporary ownership marks to preliminaries. Internally fine 8 plates, integral but not reckoned in pagination. Title-page in black and red. [ii], viii, 373 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo (8-5/16 x 5-1/2 inches)

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.