Holmes, Oliver Wendell

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.10 | ¥69,871)

(Boston). A brief AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "O. W. Holmes" to Dr. Bowditch on a 4-1/2" x 6" sheet of paper dated February 25, no year, thanking him for his letter. In part: "I had thought of sending it to your cousin Frank Bowditch, and I wish you would show it to him-- also ...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr · 21894 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.09 | £945.99 | ¥199,633)

Boston. A fine 1-1/4 page letter of @50 words on Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 4-7/8" x 8" stationery SIGNED by the Justice to an unnamed correspondent. Holmes transmits the address of an editor that his correspondent might contact in order to have a piece of writing pu...

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD

[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell] GOLDSMITH, Oliver · 1891 · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.10 | ¥69,871)

London & New York. Macmillan & Co.. Second Edition. Decorated cloth, all edges gilt. Illustrated with drawings by Hugh Thomson. A presentation copy from Oliver Wendell Holmes INSCRIBED and SIGNED by him on the half-title page: "Louise Annette Gaudelet,/With the kindest regards...

DOROTHY Q. TOGETHER WITH A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY & GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · 1893 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.13 | £1,418.99 | ¥299,449)

Boston & New York. Houghton Mifflin and Company. Revised Edition. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with plates, drawings, head and tail-pieces by Howard Pyle. An interesting copy inscribed on the front blank: "Dear Dr. Holmes/I am going to give/this charming little edition/To my W...

SPEECHES

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr · 1891 · Charles Agvent

$1,062.50 (€963.98 | £804.09 | ¥169,688)

Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. First Edition. Original gilt-lettered white cloth. We have handled several copies of this title over the years and all have been bound in printed boards. This is the first time we have seen this binding which is fancier and likely produced i...

DEAD, YET LIVING. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT KEENE, N.H. MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 30, 1884

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr · 1884 · Charles Agvent

$4,375.00 (€3,969.31 | £3,310.98 | ¥698,714)

Boston. Ginn, Heath, and Company. First Edition. Reprinted from the Boston Daily Advertiser, by the Author's permission. First Separate Edition in self-printed stitched wraps (5" x 7-1/2"), 12 pages, of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s first printed speech, a celebration of his com...

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL

[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell] · 1888 · Charles Agvent

$1,062.50 (€963.98 | £804.09 | ¥169,688)

Boston. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Forty-Ninth Edition. Octavo (5" x 7-1/2") in original gilt-decorated green cloth. A Grolier American 100 book. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank: "Harold C. Ernst/with the kind regards of/Oliver Wendell Holme...

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL

[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell] · 1890 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,268.18 | £1,891.99 | ¥399,265)

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. Revised Edition. Small octavo (3-1/4" x 5-5/8") in original flexible blue cloth. A Grolier American 100 book, this would be a run-of-the-mill copy but for the remarkable holograph additions by Holmes within. On the recto of the ad page before ...

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · 1955 · Charles Agvent

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,995)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in cream buckram with beveled edges, a gilt-stamped leather spine label, and drawings by the artist embedded in the front and rear covers. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Designed by Calr Purington Rollins and p...

ASTRAEA Inscribed by Holmes to Longfellow

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell [LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth] · 1850 · Charles Agvent

$12,500.00 (€11,340.88 | £9,459.94 | ¥1,996,327)

Boston. Ticknor, Reed & Fields. First Edition. 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 ...

ASTRAEA: THE BALANCE OF ILLUSION. A POEM DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF YALE COLLEGE, AUGUST 14, 1850

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · 1850 · Charles Agvent

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,995)

Boston. Ticknor, Reed & Fields. First Edition. BAL 8757: State A, Binding A of original glazed boards: 2500 copies. . Spine, as is usually the case, partly eroded. Rubbed and edgeworn. Contents partly soiled, foxed. Good+

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE

[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell] · 1858 · Charles Agvent

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

Boston. Phillips, Sampson & Co.. First Edition. First Printing. With engraved title and eight plates. BAL 8781: Binding A, brown cloth with all first issue points. A Grolier American 100 book. Former owner inscription in pencil "Compliments of G. Y.(?) J." dated "Boston Nov. 1...

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE

[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell] · 1858 · Charles Agvent

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.30 | ¥9,982)

Boston. Phillips, Sampson & Co.. First Edition. BAL 8781: Printing 2, Binding C of original brown cloth, no rings. The sheets measure 7-1/2 x 4-3/4, which falls between the paper size of the regular issue and the large paper issue. One of the Grolier 100 Influential American B...

POEMS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Holmes, Oliver Wendell · 1925 · Gibson

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Haldeman-Julius Publications Girard, Kansas Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Pages yellowing, small stain on front cover; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nelson Antrim Crawford; Little Blue Book; Vol. 849; 64 pages

POET OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE He Talks with His Fellow Boarders and the Reader

Holmes, Oliver Wendell · 1900 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Houghton Mifflin Boston, MA Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name. Soiling on endpapers. ; The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes; B&W Illustrations; 360 pages

AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE Every Man His Own Boswell

Holmes, Oliver Wendell · 1900 · Gibson

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Thomas Y. Crowell New York Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Front cover has light soiling; Handy Volume Classics; 329 pages

SIX NEW - ENGLAND AUTHORS. Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes and Lowell

Halliday, Wm. H. - Photographer. Hawthorne, Nathaniel [1804 - 1864]; Emerson, Ralph Waldo [1803 - 1882]; Longfellow; Henry Wadsworth [1807 - 1882]; Whittier, John Greenleaf [1807 - 1892]; Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1809 - 1894]; Lowell, James Russell [1819 - · 1897 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,650.00 (€1,497.00 | £1,248.71 | ¥263,515)

Boston: , 1897. 1st Edition. Period brown full leather binding, with gilt stamped title lettering to front cover, with both covers having a perimeter rule to the edges. Floral patterned-paper eps. TEG. The album is divided into sections, each section devoted to one of these 6 ...

Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Holmes, Oliver Wendell · 0 · Barter Books Ltd

£15.60 (€18.70 | $20.61 | ¥3,292)

G : in Good condition. Hinges cracked and weak London Walter Scott Ltd Reprint 170mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). vii, 279pp. hor.

Over the Teacups

Holmes, Oliver Wendell · 1891 · Barter Books Ltd

£36.00 (€43.16 | $47.57 | ¥7,597)

G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Slight foxing Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz First edition thus 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 312pp.

The Atlantic Monthly. December, 1867

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES; BAYARD TAYLOR; THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH; JOHN NEAL; JAMES K. MEDBERY; CHARLES J. SPRAGUE · 1867 · The Wild Muse

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. 1st. Soft cover. 8vo. Original paper issue for December, 1867. Published Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. 8vo. wrappers, 6 3/8" x 10", 124pp.+iv+xiv ads, plu 3 tipped in sheets of ads on color paper. Includes: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: The Guardian ...