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Holmes, Oliver Wendell Breakfast-Table Trilogy: the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the Poet At the Breakfast-Table, and the Professor At the Breakfast-Table
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1889 Reprint Decorative Cloth Good with no dust jacket
The three titles in the "Breakfast-Table" trilogy by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894). Aside from siring Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. , the Senior Holmes was a physician and pioneering proponent of hand washing as well as a renowned poet, novelist and essayist. His best known works are the Breakfast-Table series described below, which consist of homey, humorous essays punctuated with poems at their conclusion. All books are reprint editions uniformly bound in forest green cloth with winged urn design stamped in gilt on front boards and gilt lettering on spine. Top edges gilt. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table was printed in 1885. This volume is scuffed and foxed on first several pages. Frontispiece engraved portrait of the mutton-chopped author. The second volume, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table was also printed in 1885. It has scuffed boards, and foxing to first several pages. Frontispiece engraving of the old gambrel-roofed house. The concluding volume, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, with the Story of Iris, was printed in 1889 and is only in Good condition, having silverfish damage to boards. A Holmes quote to reflect upon: "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening" (from The Professor at the Breakfast Table) . ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell Opals from Holmes
Boston De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. 1870 Hardcover Fair
White padded cover. Many chromolithographs of flowers and birds (some signed "C Klein") accompany verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Chromolithograph portrait of Holmes as frontispiece, though he looks oddly rouged and lipsticked. Covers heavily soiled and worn, backstrip split, hinges tender, owner bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 34 pages
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