Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894., 1894
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
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Illustrated by Howard Pyle (plates, photogravures, text illustrations). Trade edition. c.1858 Phillips, Sampson, c.1893 Houghton Mifflin with Pyle illustrations. Reddish cloth, gilt lettered top with gilt print spine and three gilt decorations, t.e.g. 8vo. pp. 473. Index. Very Good. One bumped corner, (ink inscription), light cover soil. BAL 9215.
Published by Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891., 1891
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
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Illustrated by Port tissue frontis (is missing but remnant impressed to page before and tissue). 4th Riverside edition. c.1858, 1882, 1886, 1891. Red silk, black spine title, t.e.g. 8vo. pp. xii, 321. Very Good-/No jacket, as issued. Cap and label wear, small nicks to silk, quill owner and date ffep. Internally clean with, stray erasable pencil lines.
Published by Dent, London
Seller: Appleford Bookroom, Abingdon, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
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Add to basketHalf-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Occasional Line Drawings (illustrator). First Edition. vii+279; 288; 320 pp., dark green half leather & marble, teg., original mottled green eps., a fine set of 3 vols., with occasional illus., v. sl wear to extremities, teg, no date but early twentieth century; 2 colour title page; prominent US writer, wit, humourist, and novelist. This is an excellent half leather set of Holmes' famous breakfast-table trilogy. Size: Sm 8vo.
Published by Boston: Prentice, Sawyer & Company, Printers, 10 Water Street, 1859., 1859
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
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Illustrated by albumen photograph port frontis and tissue (uncaptioned). Stated second edition. c.1854. Limp green stamped cloth with (Sequence B) gilt stamped topboard title: "Songs and Poems of the Class of 1829", all edges red. 8vo (19.3cm). pp. 46, [2] blank. Appendix. Very Good. Cloth faded at spine and corner; old dampstain at top corner lessening to, and ending at p. 12. Contents: A Song of Twenty-nine by O.W.H., Lines by S.F.S., Song of Old 'Lang Syne by S.F.S., An Impromptu - Not Meditated by O.W.H., Nos, et Alma Mater Nostra by J.W.H., The Dream by O.W.H, Song by O.W.H., A Poem (written for the class meeting 1856) by O.W.H., Mare Rubrum by O.W.H., Poem (The Mole, The College Goody, A Robin Red-Breast, Dr. Noyes and Dr. Hedge, The Owl, The Owl's Wife, Poet) by J.F.C., The Boys by O.W.H., The Retrospect by B.P.W., The Prospect by B.P.W., In Memoriam by S.F.S., Our Brotherhood by J.H.W., Appendix: An Ode [My Country Tis of Thee, first 4 stanzas of "America"] by S.F.S., Questions and Answers, from Holmes Poems. Additional verse by Samuel Francis Smith 1808-95, James Freeman Clarke 1810-88, James Humphrey Wilder 1809-79, Benjamin Pollard Winslow 1810-79. (BAL 8785, 18309) It is of note that the composer of "America", Samuel Francis Smith aka S.F.S. class of 1829, originally penned the 4 stanza lyrics as his poem "The Ode", as titled in the Appendix.
Published by Onoldi, Typis Ioannis Davidis MessereriTypogr. AVL. (1781)., 1781
Seller: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Germany
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XVIII Seiten, inkl. Titelblatt; S. (III) mit großem allegorisch-ornamentaler Holzschnitt-Vignette, im Stock signiert 'G.S.', 1 kleine Vignette am Schluss. - Orig.-Fadenheftung, ohne Einband; 4to.(ca. 20,5 x 18 cm). *** [FRÜHLINGSVERKAUF-Endspurt, noch bis Montag den 25.05.2026 / Ultimate SPRING-SALE, only until Monday May 25th 2026: um fast 50% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of almost 50%; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 165,-] --- 1. AUFLAGE, ORIGINALAUSGABE DER SELTENEN GEBURTSTAGSCHRIFT; besteht zum größten Teil aus Melchiors Kommentar zum Prolog des Lukrez inkl. deutscher Übersetzung einiger Textpassagen, am Ende dann die Lobreden der beiden Studenten. - Die Feier fand wohl im Ansbacher (damals 'Onolzbach') 'Gymnasium Carolinum' statt, dessen Namensgeber (nach seinem 1733 geborenen Sohn Carl Alexander) im Jahre 1737 der 20 Jahre später verstorbene Gatte der Markgräfin, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1712-1757, genannt der Wilde Markgraf) war. --- Titelblatt unten mit schwungvoller handschriftlicher Annotation der Zeit (Tinte): ''Illustri Academiae'', minimale Gebrauchsspur; SEHR GUTES EXEMPLAR DER FRAGILEN PUBLIKATION.
Seller: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Groß-Gerau, Germany
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Seller: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Groß-Gerau, Germany
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Seller: Herbst-Auktionen, Detmold, Germany
Brief / Befehl (7 Zeilen in Tinte) mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift als Major im Generalstabe in Abwesenheit des Chefs vom Generalstabe Magdeburg, d. 24. Juni 1855 ".der königlichen 7. Division zur gefälligen Kenntnisnahme ergebenst mitgetheilt." - mit zeitgenössischer Original-Lithographie als General mit Pour le Mérite unter matt-dunkelgrünes Passepartout (1 S. 4°) gerahmt.