The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, Large Paper printing. 8 plates, integral but not reckoned in pagination. Title-page in black and red. ii , viii, 373 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo 8-5/16 x 5-1/2 inches . Publisher’s beveled maroon pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blindstamped frame to covers, a.e.g. Head of spine repaired, front joint split, inner hinges strengthened with binder's tape. Neat contemporary ownership marks to preliminaries. Internally fine. BAL 9093, binding

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