"One Hoss Shay": A Logical Story
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hagerstown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
NY: Barse & Hopkins, 1910. no date given, (circa 1910?); brown embossed c a/gilt titles; lite wear; owner's namee; 16 clean, unmarked bordered [Often interpreted as a satire on the breakdown of Calvinism in America, the poem concerns a one-hoss shay (i.e., one-horse chaise) constructed logically and with all parts of equal strength by a New England deacon. Though it is meant to last forever, the vehicle spontaneously falls apart 100 years after it was built. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Frontis Portrait. 12 vo.
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- Bookseller
- Dorley House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 123056
- Title
- "One Hoss Shay": A Logical Story
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Illustrator
- Frontis Portrait
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Barse & Hopkins
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1910
- Size
- 12 vo
- Keywords
- POETRY; satire.
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Dorley House Books
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Hagerstown, Maryland
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