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Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Prescott, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Rahway, New Jersey: The Mershon Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. N.D.. Flexible leather. 332 pp. Full leather binding, looks to have been rebound. Binding has edgewear, spine ends and corners rubbed and bumped. Top edge gilt. Undated, prize note on front endpaper dated 1912. Dampstaint to the bottom edge of some pages. A collection of essays on various subjects, taking the form of discussion between the author and residents at a boarding house table. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Riverwash Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LIT0384
- Title
- Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Flexible leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Mershon Company
- Place of Publication
- Rahway, New Jersey
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, Essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Riverwash Books
Biblio member since 2004
Prescott, Ontario
About Riverwash Books
Purveyors of gently used, out of print, and rare books.While based in Canada, we ship from both Canada and the US.
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- Rebound
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- Good+
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- Jacket
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- New
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