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The one-hoss shay with its companion poems by Holmes, Oliver Wendell - 1905

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The one-hoss shay with its companion poems

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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London: Gay and Bird, 1905. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Howard Pyle. Brown, stained cloth boards; bumped corners; wear round edges; author, title & illustrator on front in gilt; author, title & pbl in gilt on spine with small blind stamped decorations. Top cut edge in gilt; fore & tail edges tanned. Endpapers tanned, foxed; dedication in ink on ffep; minor crack to front hinge. Text block tight; pages lightly tanned; List of illustrations at front; numerous colour illustrations incl frontispiece which is protected by tanned tissue guard; not all pages are numbered. No jacket.

  • Bookseller Independent bookstores GB (GB)
  • Illustrator Howard Pyle
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Good
  • Jacket Condition No Jacket
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  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Gay and Bird
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1905
  • Pages 80

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The One Hoss Shay with Its Companion Poems

The One Hoss Shay with Its Companion Poems

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Gay And Bird, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 78 pages. No dust jacket. Fully bound brown leather. Black and white illustrations throughout by Howard Pyle. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and rubbing to corners and crushing and rubbing to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces.
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ONE HOSS SHAY WITH ITS COMPANION POEMS

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Illustrated by Howard Pyle

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. Mottled Leather. A Good Copy Later Printing. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 82 pp. Wear on all extremities, light soiling, hinges weak but intact, ribbon marker. Intro. by Holmes, owner's name dated '91 (1891) on flyleaf. Quaint.
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by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Gay and Bird, 1905T. unknown_binding. Good. in x in x in. on brown cloth giled title to frontis MDCCCCV
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The One Hoss Shay WIth Its Companion Poems

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Howard Pyle. Publisher's olive green gilt embossed cloth with gilt top foreedge and date on title page. A clean, unmarked copy with bright cover gilt and a thick Mylar plastic protective jacket.
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THE ONE-HOSS SHAY, WITH ITS COMPANION POEMS

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston, MA.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1905. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in green cloth with a blind-stamped pattern and with gilt stamping to the upper cover and spine. The covers show some light scuffing, edge-wear and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and generally clean, with color illustrations, but also with some light soiling. .
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The One-Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Very good condition; spine & edges worn . Howard Pyle. 80p., illus. All illus. and decorations in color. Printed only on the recto. BAL 9258
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THE ONE-HOSS SHAY with Its Companion Poems

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 80p. A hardcover book bound in decorated tan cloth. Very good condition overall. Corners lightly bumped; light scratches and smudges on back cover. Owner's inscription inside front cover and scattered small blemishes in page margins. Tissue frontis protector is detached and torn, and has pencil doodles on it (a previous owner attempted to trace the frontis). Otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated throughout with color pictures by Howard Pyle.
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The One Hoss Shay with Its Companion Poems

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Pyle, Howard. New edition with illustrations redrawn in color. 78, [4]pp. Green embossed cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, full-page, and in-text color illustrations by Howard Pyle. Name on front free endpaper, toning to spine. Internally extremely clean. A bright, very good+ copy. BAL 9258. ; Octavo.
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The One Hoss Shay, with Its Companion Poems

by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1905. Very Good, 1905 Hardback, tooled cloth, no marks, color illustrations throughout by Howard Pyle, binding tight. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Pyle, Howard (illustrated in color).
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The one hoss shay with its companion poems

by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. Coloured title, each poem with separate coloured half-title, frontispiece, 13 plates and numerous text illustrations, all in colour. Green cloth, decorated in blind with a horse-and-carriage pattern; an absolutely fantastic copy. First colour-illustrated edition. The black and white ink illustrations from the original edition were so popular that Pyle (1853-1911) was asked to reproduce them here in colour. BAL, 9258; C&T, p. 237.
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