Oliver Wendell Holmes
64 copies for sale · $20–$4,500 · 39 first editions · 7 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 A.L.S. to an unknown poet (signed) — John Windle Antiquarian$375
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
Soundings from the Atlantic (first edition) — Rootenberg Rare Books$250
Works on the market
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table4 copies · $75–$950
Collected Legal Papers4 copies · $20–$65
Poems. New and enlarged edition3 copies · $600–$1,850
The autocrat of the breakfast table3 copies · $250–$1,800
Dorothy Q, Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker 2 copies · $275–$1,500
The AUTOCRAT Of The BREAKFAST-TABLE2 copies · $495–$850
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
Currents and counter currents in medical science with other addresses and essays. . .2 copies · $350
5 x 7 Black-and-White Press Portrait Photograph of Holmes..2 copies · $50–$150
Urania: A rhymed lesson. Pronounced before the Mercantile Library Association, October 14,1 copy · $4,500
Dr. Holmes’s introductory lecture, delivered before the medical class of Harvard Universit1 copy · $2,500
Diploma Hayward John Mclean Senatus Universitatis Cantabrigiensis Academicus In Republica1 copy · $1,500
The Common Law. London, 18821 copy · $750
Songs of Many Seasons, 1862-18741 copy · $600
John Lothrop Motley. A memoir1 copy · $450
Market context
23 copies of Oliver Wendell Holmes's works have left the market recently; the median last-listed price was $125 (last listed prices at time of sale or removal, not confirmed sale prices).
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