first edition Hardcover
1860 · Boston / Philadelphia
by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Boston / Philadelphia: Ticknor and Fields / J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. First trade edition with the 1860 (MDCCCLX) date and double imprint J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia added on title page. First appearing in *The Atlantic Monthly*. Original blind-stamped, pebbled brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Pages 203-206 with short tears on edges, spine ends and corners nicked and bumped, still a very good copy. BAL, 8791. Scarce with the double imprint. (Inventory #: 399313)