AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- A few small stains and mounting remnants on verso. Near Fine
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Beverly Farms, MA, 24 August 1878. Manuscript. A few small stains and mounting remnants on verso. Near Fine. On a 6-1/8" x 6-3/8" piece of lined paper the author has written the following six-line stanza from his poem "The Silent Melody":
Sweet are the lips of all who sing
When nature's music heather unsought
But never yet could voice or string
So truly shape our tenderest thought
As when by life's decaying fire
Our fingers sweep the stringless lyre!
Below this he has SIGNED "Oliver Wendell Holmes/Beverly Farms, Mass./Aug. 24th 1878." The poem is identified in ink in a smaller hand at the bottom left corner.
Sweet are the lips of all who sing
When nature's music heather unsought
But never yet could voice or string
So truly shape our tenderest thought
As when by life's decaying fire
Our fingers sweep the stringless lyre!
Below this he has SIGNED "Oliver Wendell Holmes/Beverly Farms, Mass./Aug. 24th 1878." The poem is identified in ink in a smaller hand at the bottom left corner.
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Details
- Seller
- Charles Agvent (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 020091
- Title
- AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
- Author
- HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Manuscript
- Book Condition
- Used - A few small stains and mounting remnants on verso. Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Beverly Farms, MA
- Date Published
- 24 August 1878
- Keywords
- Signed, Manuscript, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Medicine, Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century American Literature; Autographs;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).