The Professor at the Breakfast Table. with A.L.S. to an unknown poet

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

$375 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo, iv , 410 pp. Original brown embossed cloth, brown coated endpapers. Rebacked, cloth a little rubbed, but sound and square; name in pencil on front free endpaper. 2 pp. A.L.S. signed O W Holmes, Boston, December 5, 1880, and typewritten transcription tipped in. Letter with a little light edgewear but entirely legible. § First trade edition. An attractive copy of the first sequel to Holmes's immensely popular The Autocrat

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