Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr · 1859 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Boston, Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. Hardcover. 373p. A hardcover book bound in embossed brown cloth with gilt edges. The spine has been discreetly rebacked with burgundy cloth, but retains all of the original spine save for worn-off fragments at the top and bottom. Ed...

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1965 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (Westvaco), 1965. Hardcover. 325p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a damaged slipcase. The book is clean and tight. The slipcase is split along the top and has been repaired with clear tape. .

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL · 1955 · Bluebird Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

New York: The Heritage Press, 1955. Hardcover. A famed collection of essays, poems and musings, first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine from 1831 to 1832. Physician, author and general scholar Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.] (1809-1894) was the father of Oliver Wendell Ho...

POEMS

[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. Holmes, Oliver Wendell [1809 - 1894] · 1846 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.87 | ¥26,352)

London: O. Rich & Sons, 1846. 1st edition thus (BAL 8743; Tilton, p. 36). Brown cloth stamped in blind (BAL Binding A). Gilt spine lettering. 175 pp, sm 8vo. VG+ (the front-pastedown sale sticker noted by Tilton has been removed/contemporary dated owner sig [pencil] on ffep/on...

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL · 1968 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£18.37 (€22.02 | $24.27 | ¥3,877)

Airmont Pub Co. 1968. (ISBN: 9780804901598). Paperback, a5 off white black text. Paperback - 1968 - good condition, sun fading to cover and pages brown with age. Used: Acceptable.

Poems

Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1836 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Boston, Otis, Broaders, and Company, 1836. First Edition, First Printing. Leather. 163p. A hardcover book bound in full black leather with marbled foredges and endpapers. Very good condition overall. Small rub marks on the edges and spine, and foxing throughout the interior. T...

A Mortal Antipathy: First Opening of the New Portfolio

Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1885 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 307p; 13p. A green gilt cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Cover rubbed, most visibly on the front. Early owner's signature inside. Otherwise, text clean, pages crisp, and binding tight. .

The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes] · 1872 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 418p. A green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Head and foot of spine worn, and corners wearing through. Early owner's pencil inscription on first blank page, dated 1873. Small brown stain in side m...

The Professor at the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1905 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

London, J.M. Dent & Co, 1905. Leather. 320p. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 green leather and green cloth boards. Good condition overall. The spine is tanned and scuffed, leaving the gilt text hard to read. Edges rubbed as well. Old bookplate inside front cover. Pencil notes in...

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1950 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Books, Inc. Art-Type Edition. Hardcover. 246p. A hardcover book bound in 1/4 navy blue cloth, simulating the appearance of leather. Very good condition. Spine text has become slightly dull with age. Rough-textured stripe across the middle of the spine (a manufacturin...

One Hundred Days in Europe

Holmes, Oliver Wendell · 1887 · Creaking Shelves Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Sampson Low Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887. Hardcover. Original red beveled cloth. 308p black endpapers. First edition, printed shortly before the first American edition. From the Fasque, Gladstone library with the obtrusive Fasque bookplate on the front board and signature...

The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics. January-June, 1863. Volume XI

Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Hamilton, Gail; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward et al. · 1863 · Mare Booksellers

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.08 | ¥7,826)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Cloth. Bound in brown cloth. 788 pp. No original wraps present. A bound volume of this noted magazine, featuring 'A London Suburb' and 'Recollections of a Gifted Woman' by Nathaniel Hawthorne; the poem 'Boston Hymn,' by Ralph Waldo Emerson; 'S...

Ladies' National Magazine. Volume IV. July to December 1843 Inclusive. Bound with: Godey's Lady's Book March 1844; Graham's Magazine January 1844; Graham's Magazine November 1844; Godey's Lady's Book February, 1845 Thousand-and-Second Tale Scheherazade

Poe, Edgar Allan;(Browning) Barrett, Elizabeth B.; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Herbert, Henry William et al. Stephens, Ann S. (editor) · 1843 · Mare Booksellers

$189.00 (€171.47 | £143.03 | ¥30,184)

Philadelphia, Various Publishers. Half-Leather. Charles J. Peterson et al. publishers. Philadelphia: 1843-1845. Half leather with marbled boards. A bound volume of different 'Lady's' magazines, containing the bound volume of July through December 1843 of the Ladie's National M...

The One Hoss Shay with Its Companion Poems

Holmes, Oliver Wendell · 1905 · Parigi Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. New edition with illustrations redrawn in color. 78, [4]pp. Green embossed cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, full-page, and in-text color illustrati...

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (World's Popular Classics Series).

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, · 0 · Vintage Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, Books, Inc., Undated. Hardcover., Vg/Vg- Dj Lightly Edgeworn, a Few Tiny Tears. Pages: 246.

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL · 1892 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin and Company. 1892. Blue cloth, gilt titles, 5.5" x 3.5". 411 pages. fust-rate, prime, a prime article. Clean throughout within; binding tight; the boards discolored, especially with the ring of a cup or glass; head and tail lightly worn. Good/No Jacket.

autograph letter signed by Holmes and dated 'Boston sept. 15th 1876', in which he thanks Amy Twiss for her kind letter of thanks and her enclosed pictures [and possibly a book?]. 'I have a liking for Holland, the home of my maternal ancestors more than two centuries ago, ...'. He encloses a picture for Amy Twiss '...I am afraid it looks somewhat like me, but there is no help for it.' Wendell Holmes has no further friendly 'offices'with which to repay her kindness. 'Several years ago I had a fancy for getting hold of some children's picture-books, Dutch ones...'A friend picked them up for him and Holmes 'read every word in every one of them'. Wendell Holmes thanks Amy Twiss for her kind appreciation of his books. 'With many thanks for your token of regard, I am very truly yours O.W.Holmes'

WENDELL HOLMES, Oliver.- ALS.- AMY TWISS.- · 1876 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Boston, 1876. September 15. 8vo. Original sheet of paper [14.8 x 22.4 cm]. Folded twice. Smallest size for the envelope being 11.5 x 7.5 cm. (3 pp. w. 40 lines of text. 1 page blank.). (The original envelope preserved with postal stamps in black and red ink 'Boston', 'New Yo...

Personal letter by the famous doctor and conversationalist Oliver Wendel Holmes, dated 'Boston Aug. 15th 1876', opening 'My dear Lady...' To the author & collector Amy Twiss housed in the original 'Autographensammlung von Amy Twiss' folder. Wendell Holmes acknowledges the receipt of the letter and replies most kindly to Ms. Twiss' praise for his writing skills. He then tells the events surrounding the loss of her letter upon his return to Boston after a visit to the sea-shore. Once he realises he took out his pocket-book at a pharmacy's Sunday last [in order to buy some mosquito repellant] the puzzle is solved: 'Just one hour and 15 minutes ago I got into a horse-car and went to the shop where I made my purchase. There sure enough, I found the letter!' He explains that letter writing 'a few words of communication' makes him feel better. 'I like myself better for having done so.' In 30 lines he then proceeds to explain the poem 'How the Old Horse Won the Bet'

WENDELL HOLMES, Oliver.- ALS.- AMY TWISS [Recipient].- · 1876 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

Boston, autograph, 1876. [15 August 1876]. 8vo. [Meas. appr. 12.5 x 20.5 cm.]. 2 further folds visible. Without the envelope. Appr. 95 lines of text in the hand of Wendell Holmes, w. signature. (4 pp.). Oliver Wendell Holmes [1809 - 1894] was an American physician, professor, ...

The Poet at the Breakfast Table.

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. · 1885 · The Book Firm

A$21.00 (€12.91 | $14.23 | £10.77 | ¥2,272)

William Paterson, 1885. Hardcover. A few stains to covers. Edges a little worn. 320pp.

John Lothrop Motley: a memoir.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, · 1879 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Boston, Houghton Osgood, 1879. VG ex-library. American diplomat and historian who was appointed to the U.S. legation in St. Petersburg in 1841 and later served as Minister. to Austria and then Great Britain. He published his most famous work "The Rise of the Dutch Republic" in...