ASTRAEA: The Balance of Illusions. A Poem Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850. Published

by Request of the Society by Oliver Wendell Holmes

$225 · Offered by Tavistock Books

First edition

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. 1850. 1st edition, first printing, state A (BAL 8757; Tilton, p. 47-48). 39, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/8". Pale yellow printed glazed paper boards (BAL Binding A). Chemised, and housed in a maroon quarter-morocco slipcase. More

• Printing: first
• Binding: Leather

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