Oliver Wendell Holmes
123 copies for sale · $20–$4,500 · 63 first editions · 8 signed
Notable copies for sale
Urania: A rhymed lesson. Pronounced before the Mercantile Library Association, October 14, (first edition, signed) — Rootenberg Rare Books$4,500
Dr. Holmes’s introductory lecture, delivered before the medical class of Harvard Universit (first edition, signed) — Rootenberg Rare Books$2,500
Songs of Many Seasons, 1862-1874 (first edition, signed) — Bartleby's Books$600
“The autocrat of the breakfast table.” In: The Atlantic Monthly, Volumes I-II, pp. 48-57; (first edition, signed) — Rootenberg Rare Books$250
Dorothy Q, Together with a Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker (first edition, signed) — B & B Rare Books$1,500
Diploma Hayward John Mclean Senatus Universitatis Cantabrigiensis Academicus In Republica (signed) — Rootenberg Rare Books$1,500
The Professor at the Breakfast-table; with the Story of Iris (first edition, signed) — James Cummins Bookseller$400
Poems (signed) — James Cummins Bookseller$250
Our hundred days in Europe (first edition) — Rootenberg Rare Books$300
Elsie Venner: a romance of destiny (first edition) — Rootenberg Rare Books$300
An introductory lecture, delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 3, 1847 (first edition) — Rootenberg Rare Books$250
Songs of many seasons. 1862-1874 (first edition) — Rootenberg Rare Books$250
What these are worth
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (first edition, first printing)3 copies from 3 sellers
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (first edition)3 copies from 3 sellers
Each page gathers every copy on the market, what similar copies have fetched, and the spread between them.
Works on the market
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table16 copies · A$20–A$1,800
Collected Legal Papers5 copies · $20–$65
The AUTOCRAT Of The BREAKFAST-TABLE4 copies · $400–$850
Poems. New and enlarged edition3 copies · $600–$1,850
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table3 copies · $175–$950
Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science. With Other Addresses and Essays3 copies · $300–$350
MEDICAL ESSAYS; Gryphon Editions3 copies · $273
Soundings from the Atlantic3 copies · $100–$250
THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES3 copies · €35–€68
Dorothy Q, Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker 2 copies · $275–$1,500
The Professor at the Breakfast-table; with the Story of Iris2 copies · $400–$600
Currents and counter-currents in medical science. An address delivered before the Massachu2 copies · $300–$450
Homeopathy and its kindred delusions; two lectures delivered before the Boston society for2 copies · $450
Astraea: the Balance of Illusions. A Poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Y2 copies · $300
Our Hundred Days in Europe2 copies · $50–$300
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE; Easton Press2 copies · $273–$298
Elsie Venner: a romance of destiny2 copies · $175–$200
THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE2 copies · €18–€173
5 x 7 Black-and-White Press Portrait Photograph of Holmes..2 copies · $50–$150
THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE2 copies · €18–€73
Market context
38 copies of Oliver Wendell Holmes's works have left the market recently; the median last-listed price was $130 (last listed prices at time of sale or removal, not confirmed sale prices).
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