The Autocrat At the Breakfast Table

First Edition. BAL State B, lacking illustrations. Inscribed by Holmes on the front free endpaper. Very rare thus. Overall very good in publishers beveled terra-cotta, pebble, embossed cloth. All edges gilt. Tear and chipping to head and tail of spine; front and rear cover hinges starting. Some bumping to corners. Internally, text is clean, bright and unmarred. First published in… Read more about this item

Boston: The Riverside Press, for Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. Hardcover. Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, still moderately attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copies, complete in two volumes. Bound in rubbed brown marbled paper over boards, pebbly leather over tips and spine. Five raised bands to each spine, rubbed gilt lettering, rubbing to, scuffing… Read more about this item

Henry Frowde, 1909. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. A few small spots to the rear board, else very good with clear and unmarked pages.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1907-1911. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". H. M. Brock. An illustrated three volume collection of Oliver Wendell-Holmes' 'Breakfast Table' series, in smart half morocco signed bindings from Bayntun's. Complete in three volumes in half morocco signed bindings from Bayntun's, these collections of essays are the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, an… Read more about this item

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. 1st Edition. Cloth. Good. 8vo., (viii)373(2)pp. Beautiful First Edition, Early Issue, very possibly the "intermediate" printing, between the first and second, mentioned by BAL(pg.247-248, #8781), which has a period after the word "Company" in the imprint but without the vignette title page. Binding "C" though order ..."has not been firmly established". Brown… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: William Paterson, nd. Leatherbound. Very good. 3 vols.: vii, 271; 287; 320 p. 17 cm. Half green leather with marbled paper boards and endpapers. Moderate edge wear and chip from one spine head.

Humphrey Milford, 1923. Hardcover. Good. 1923. 1923 Reprint. 271 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed.… Read more about this item

Bound in flowered pictorial cloth with a silver design and silver lettering on the spine, this is a pretty, turn of the century copy of a classic work of literature. It is in good condition with some wear and a former owner's name and inscription on the endsheet and does not contain a publication date, which… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1942. d Pp. [x]+300+8(list of volumes in series), patterned endpapers; f'cap. 8vo; orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind at centre of upper board, the boards a trifle canted and slightly marked, bottom fore-corner of upper board lightly bruised; top edges brown; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and… Read more about this item

The Gresham Publishing Company, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild… Read more about this item

Dent,, [1906]. 8vo., Second Edition thus, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of ribbed terracotta cloth, gilt back, dark top, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy. Published five months after the first edition thus. EL 66; Seymour 516.0.

Avon, CT: The Heritage Press, 1955. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. 4to., 281pp. Beautiful Later Heritage Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive Publisher's slipcase. Heritage's monthly newsletter, "Sandglass" still present. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.

Cosimo Classics, 2005. Trade Paperback. Very Good +.

Walter Scott,, n.d. [c.1910]. 3 vols., 8vo., handsomely bound in green half morocco, marbled sides heightened in gilt, backs with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, gilt tops, marbled endpapers heightened with gilt, backstrips mildly sunned to brown, fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean set.

Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company, 1858. First Edition, Second Issue. Hardcover. VG-. First edition, second issue. Original, brown pebbled cloth binding better than very good save for slight loss spine ends, one corner "shaved" off. Light blue endpapers. Solid binding, uncocked, tight copy. No previous owner names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. All tissue guards extant, leaves… Read more about this item

New York: Irving Co., 1872 The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly (1857-58). This book is in good condition, with some noticeable signs of aging and wear; the plates are lightly scuffed, and there is some foxing on the text block, but the book si intact and clear.

NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1955. First Edition, thus. R. J. Holden. Large 8vo, pp. 281. Bound in publisher's (slightly soiled) cloth. One of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. This is copy "J. M. W." The book was planned by Carl Purington Rogers of the Yale University Press in New Haven, CT. Lacks the box.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. 320pgs frontispiece w/tissue guard. decorative endpapers. . Red cloth, gilt embossed iniitals on front panel. rough cut pages, top edge gilt with illustrations by H.M. Brock throughout. An attractive copy. Size: Octavo. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by H.M. Brock.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Volume one in the Standard Library Edition of The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Blue cloth with leather label on spine. Some cracks to hinges . Good. Hardcover. 1892.

London: MacMillan, 1903. Full leather. Very good. 4 x 6 in. Full maroon calf binding by Morrell. Condition is VERY GOOD ; joints show wear but are fine, covers clean, spine has a few tiny flecks. Binding tight, text very clean. PO's bookplate on pastedown. Fic. Stax.