The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Published by Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858., 1858

About this Item

First edition, mixed issue, first issue of ads to rear endpapers with "Poetry and the Drama" and "School Books" heading rear endpapers, 2nd issue title without vignette. Octavo, publisher's brown cloth lettered, ruled and decorated in blind at the boards, and gilt at the spine with 4 ring decorations to spine (shaken, a couple middle signatures not square with rest of text block, small chip to the protruding fore-edges of those signatures, heavy rubbing to extremities including chips with loss at spine ends, upper joint starting, but hinges solid, else a good copy). A clipped signature of author affixed to front blank.

Seller Inventory # 03653

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
• Publisher: Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858.
• Publication Date: 1858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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  • Literature