Wendel Holmes (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. in Near fine slipcase; green c w/blue boards; decorative end papers; satin bookmark bound-in; 492 clean, unmarked pages. color & b/w (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Vol II and III of 14 volume set. Owners name in Vol III. Pages have no tears noted. The red boards have minimal edge wear. Vol III have a small stain on the front and 1 inch mark on the spine. TK.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Penciled price to fep. Slight age discoloring to eps and page edges. Text and pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Cover with some rubbing and wear, sight white marks. 316 pages.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Octavo, half calf, marbled boards. gilt lettering and raised bands on backstrip. Marbled page edges and end papers. Pages are clean, text is clear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Support Small Business by buying this book! Family owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Vintage book. Pages are clean and unmarked, though modest aging/tanning to aged pages. Binding sound. Shelf-wear to book. About the book: No date (circa 1899) Limp Velvet calf leather green covers. In origingal gift box. #5 of the Altemus' Gem Series. Silk end papers. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Appears unread. som euncut bottom edges. Box top corners are split at corner edges. . . . . . Table of Contents: LECTURE I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology -- LECTURE II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam -- LECTURE III. The Hero as Poet. Dante; Shakspeare -- LECTURE IV. The Hero as Priest. Luther; Reformation: Knox; Puritanism -- LECTURE V. The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns -- LECTURE VI. The Hero as King. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First printing of this edition. 7" x 10 1/2" hardcover bound in cream colored English buckram with a leather spine label stamped in gold. Near fine condition. Tanning to the book's spine. Dust soiling to the covers. This edition is #47 of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator R.J. Holden. Shipping weight is three pounds. Additional shipping charges will apply to international orders. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1892. Leather cover, badly worn. leather missing from spine, several other scrapes and rubs, especially at corners. Several stains on pages, otherwise white. Boards loosening.; lmeug22H74.

VG+. No dustwrapper.

Broché. Condition: Moyen.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60000617: sans date. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 300 pages. Trou dans le 1er plat et les 30 premières pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 329pp. Traveling with one's thought of an ealier life: Oliver Wendell Holmes returns to Europe after 50 years absence. Small 8vo., Original green cloth, black endpapers, gilt-lettered spine and cover ornament. Top edge gilt. Ffep removed. Text clean.…

First Edition. GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION in Atlantic Monthly for January, February & March, 1868, first edition, some light scattered foxing throughout, although much more prominent among the first several leaves, else a vg+ copy of volume 21 which also includes the months of April, May and June, all rebound in quarter leather with cloth covers. These 6 issues issues also contains OUR SECOND GIRL by Harriet Beecher Stowe, HAWTHORNE IN THE BOSTON CUSTOM-HOUSE by Nathaniel Hawthorne, MRS. JOHNSON by W. Dean Howells, ASPECTS OF CULTURE by Ralph Waldo Emerson, THE ROMANCE OF CERTAIN OLD CLOTHES & A MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE by Henry James as well as original poetry by James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendel Holmes, et.al.…

Vellum. Condition: Fine. DELUXE EDITION. A FINE COPY!! EDITION DELUXE, BOUND IN FULL VELLUM. ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD PYLE. COPY NO. 119/250 COPIES. Exceptional copy and rare in this condition. Gold gilt lettering to spine and cover are very bright. All four ties are in excellent condition. All illustrations with tissue guards. Vellum shows no wear, no bumped corners or rubbing. No signatures. No foxing or spotting to end papers or pages. Priority Mail shipping only. ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD PYLE (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Standard Library Edition. 13 + 2 Vols. Octavo. Bound in three quarter blue morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering and ruling on spines; raised bands. Gilt top edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece gravures with printed tissue guards. Publisher's devices on title pages. Illustrated with steel portraits and photogravures. Includes the Breakfast Table series, Over the Teacups, Elsie Venner, The Guardian Angel, A Mortal Antipathy, Pages From an Old Volume of Life, Medical Essays, Our Hundred Days In Europe (with index), Emerson/Motley, Poems in two volumes, and two volumes of Life and Letters of Oliver Wendel Holmes, issued for the Standard Library Edition.…