The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: Every Man His Own Boswell
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Port Dover, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
£12.21£10.99
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1909. Later Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Burgundy leather boards with gilt lettering and graphics along the spine. The top edges of the pages are gilt. Previous owner's name written on page 1, which has transposed onto the bottom of the copyright page. No damage to text on either page. Burgundy silk page marker still attached. No DJ. 271 pages plus advertisements.
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Synopsis
I was just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. All economical and practical wisdom is an extension or variation of the following arithmetical formula: 2+2=4. Every philosophical proposition has the more general character of the expression A+B=C. We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists, until we learn to think in letters instead of figures.
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- Bookseller
- Olmstead Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6811
- Title
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1909
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Arts;
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