first edition Hardcover
1879 · Boston
by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, was preceded by a private printing, which lacked the title page, a title, and the author's name. Decorative red-brown cloth stamped in black and two-tone gilt, all edge gilt. Illustrated by D.C. Hitchcock, J. Appleton Brown, F.T. Merrill, W.L. Sheppard and A.R. Waud. Blank preliminary page cut out, contemporary owner's name on front fly, small tide line on bottom corner of frontispiece, edges worn with spine ends and corners frayed, about very good. Poetry. (Inventory #: 408887)