ASTRAEA: THE BALANCE OF ILLUSIONS. A POEM DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF YALE COLLEGE, AUGUST 14, 1850
1850 · Boston
by Holmes, Oliver W.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. Original printed cream-yellow glazed boards. First edition, BAL's first printing, state A, binding A. Apart from a couple of carefully closed hairline cracks in the spine, an exceptional copy, largely unopened, and very close to like the day of issue. BAL 8757. (Inventory #: WRCLIT28336)