Over Teacups, Signed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Paper label on spine has lost most of lettering. Gold top edges. Card with authors signature in full & dated Boston. Oct. 31st 1890. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Holmes on the flyleaf with the last stanza of his poem The Last Leaf. Laid is in an addressed envelope in Holmes' hand to famed American botanist Asa Gray. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Second state with Over the Teacups priced at $1.50 in the ads facing the title page. Original green cloth with gilt-stamped titles and decorations, top edge gilt; pp. (ii), 319pp, [3]. Light shelfwear near boards with a small pinhole to cloth near spine crown, a few minor stains to covers. Hinges starting but still secured. Bookplates to front pastedown are over several bookseller catalogue descriptions and a poem, brief catalogue description of this volume tipped in to rear endpaper. Recipient's name blotted out in the inscription, bled through to the first second blank, foxing to endpapers. Housed in a custom two-part cloth slipcase with leather spine label titled in gilt. Shows a bit of wear and light fraying. A presentable copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. 319p, octavo. A near fine copy in full red morocco, raised bands, all edges gilt. Bound by R. W. Smith. Archivally inserted in the leaf opposite the title page is a 15 line letter signed, date 1890 from Oliver Wendell Holmes to Edward Bok in London, ".My teacups will be published in the course of a few weeks." Holmes explains that he's cutting back and hopes for Bok's success in his literary pursuits. Bok became known for his pursuit of famous people. In his Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography "The Americanization of Edward Bok" Bok has written, "He was always interested in the manner in which in which personality was expressed in letters.for this reason.he adopted the method of collecting letters characteristic of their writers. One of these writers was Oliver Wendell Holmes" (Chapter 19). In return, Holmes has written, "Edward Bok has perservered like the widow in scripture.look at Mr. Bok's with such thoughts.and you will have cause to wonder at his pertinacity and applaud the conquests of his enthusiasm." Engraved bookplate of railroad financier Samuel F. Barger pasted to front end paper. Barger was also mentioned in Bok's book and the two corresponded.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. First edition of Over the Teacups, inscribed by the author, Oliver Wendell Holmes. (illustrator). First Edition, Second State. Octavo, [2], 319pp, [3]. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover, gilt floral border on front cover, floral border stamped in blind on rear cover. Top edge gilt, light rubbing to spine tips and corners. This is the second state printing, with Over the Teacups priced at $1.50 in the advertisement opposite the title page. Binding "variant A." Housed in a green cloth chemise within a custom quarter morocco slipcase with green cloth boards, title in gilt on spine, decorative raised bands. (Ives 196) (BAL 9027). Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "Oliver Wendell Holmes for Miss Emma Hitt Harris - Boston. October 9th, 1891.". Signed.