[Works]
by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Lebanon, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton Mifflin and Company. Later editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Contemporary orange-brown three-quarter morocco, gilt spines with raised bands, t.e.g., by R.W. Smith; spines toned, occasional light shelfwear and spotting to covers and endpapers, small chip to head of the Professor at the Breakfast-table A set of the works of Oliver Wendell Holmes assembled from later uniform editions of his works published by Houghton Mifflin:The Guardian Angel (1885); Elsie Venner (188-); The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1884); The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1885); Pages from an Old Volume of Life (1884); The Poetical Works (nd); The Professor at the Breakfast-table (1885); Medical Essays (1883)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100622
- Title
- [Works]
- Author
- HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later editions
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Keywords
- sets
Terms of Sale
Bull's Head Rare Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bull's Head Rare Books
Biblio member since 2021
Lebanon, New Jersey
About Bull's Head Rare Books
Bull's Head Rare Books was established in 2020 by Alex Obercian after more than a dozen years in the New York City book trade. BHRB deals in rare books and manuscripts in all fields, with specialties in literature, bookbindings, architecture, photography, science and medicine and country-life pursuits — gardening, farming and landscape design.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...