The School-Boy
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1879. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. First Edition, First Printing (private edition published a year earlier). 8vo. 79pp. Decorated brown cloth stamped in silver, gold, and black, beveled edges, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers, text printed on rectos only. Very good condition, edges briefly worn at ends of spine and corners, interior very good, occasional light spots. With full-page and vignette engravings by various artists. BAL 8931; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 79 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13952
- Title
- The School-Boy
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton, Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1879
- Keywords
- New England Poets, Poetry, American Literature
Terms of Sale
Dale A. Sorenson
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About the Seller
Dale A. Sorenson
Biblio member since 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Dale A. Sorenson
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