Price: $125
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First Edition. Includes several chapters on photography: ”The Stereoscope and the Stereograph;” “Sun-Painting and Sun-Sculpture; with a Stereoscopic Trip Across the Atlantic;” and “Doings of the Sunbeam.”. Read More Item Details for Soundings from the Atlantic Add to Wish List
Item #5441
Price: $275
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894. Pyle, Howard. Large Paper Edition, no. 63 of 250 copies. Read More Item Details for The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Add to Wish List
Item #41750
Price: $1,500
Boston: June 25, 1866. When Health & Morals Clash. A letter from Fireside Poet Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to the owner of a newly opened bathhouse in Boston, complaining that men parade around on the roof while exposing themselves to innocent bystanders: "Naked men... get on to the roof and..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, Signed, Add to Wish List
Item #365466
Price: $450
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. Twenty-Third Edition. INSCRIBED, WITH HIS BOOKPLKATE. Inscribed on ffep: "from Oliver Wendell Holmes May 1,1890." Read More Item Details for Elsie Venner-A Romance of Destiny Add to Wish List
Item #346731
Price: $4,000
Boston: November 29, 1883. Fair Copy of Holmes' Most Famous Poem. Holmes wrote the poem to take issue with the disposal of the 18th Century frigate, the USS Constitution. The poem was published nationally and public protest over its demise saved it from the scrap heap. Read More Item Details for Autograph manuscript signed ("Oliver Wendell Holmes") fair copy of "Old Ironsides" Add to Wish List
Item #346684
Price: $300
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First edition of this collection. Includes first appearance of the “Preface,” “Some More Recent Views on Homoeopathy,” and “Mechanism of Vital Actions.” With the cancelled state of signature 2 as usual. BAL first binding. Holmes on Homoeopathy and Natural Medicines. Read More Item Details for Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science with Other Addresses and Essays Add to Wish List
Item #334658
Price: $75
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893. First Trade edition. JOHN BARRYMORE'S COPY. Reprint save for Preface pp. 5-7. Read More Item Details for Dorothy Q Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle Add to Wish List
Item #332645
Price: $400
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. First edition, first printing with period after "Company" in the imprint, and with the illustrated title-page. Ads printed at front and rear endpapers. Read More Item Details for The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Add to Wish List
Item #320647
Price: $250
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1907. WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. With an ALS tipped in at the front of The Autocrat. To Mrs Merrill. Beverly Farms August 12, 1884, 1 page. A fulsome reply to her letter from Mrs. Merrill thanking him for his work. Read More Item Details for The Autoocrat at the Breakfast Table; The Professor of the Braekfast Table; The Poet at the Breeakfast Table Add to Wish List
Item #267850
Price: $75
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, nd [c. 1914]. Cambridge Edition. Read More Item Details for The Complete Poetical Works of...Edited by Horace E. Scudder Add to Wish List
Item #266025
Price: $400
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. First edition, first printing with period after "Company" in the imprint, and with the illustrated title-page. Ads printed at front and rear endpapers. Read More Item Details for The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Add to Wish List
Item #261674
Price: $1,500
Boston: Jan 19th, 1887. The letter is a thank you for a photograph of her nephew (Winston S. Churchill). An early and charming reference to Winston when he was 13. Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, Signed "Oliver Wendell Holmes." To Lady Constance Leslie, wife of John Leslie (later to become Sir John Leslie 1st Baronet of Glaslough) whose son married Leonie Jerome, sister of Winston Churchill's mother Add to Wish List
Item #251242
Price: $850
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891-1892. The Large Paper Edition. Number 78 of 250 copies on Large paper. Read More Item Details for The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes Add to Wish List
Item #244843
Price: $1,000
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1887. First American edition following very shortly after the English edition. BAL binding B, priority undetermined. Presentation Copy with Autograph Poem on Stonehenge. Inscribed with the concluding stanzas of The Broken Circle (at p. 172 in the present volume): Cold is the..... Read More Item Details for Our Hundred Days in Europe Add to Wish List
Item #243453
Price: $100
Boston: Ticknor and Fileds, 1862. First edition, BAL binding 1 (with "TICKNOR & CO." in gilt on spine). This lecture, first presented in 1861 to Holmes' medical class at Harvard, closes with his poem, "The Two Armies" Read More Item Details for Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science. An introductory Lecture, Delivered Before the Medical Class of Harvard University, November 6th, 1861 Add to Wish List
Item #237273
Price: $3,500
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. First edition, Large Paper printing. Signed by Holmes, Jr. Signed in blue ink and dated May 23, 1930, by then Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Read More Item Details for The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell Add to Wish List
Item #235316
Price: $400
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First edition. Tipped to the front pastedown is a small card signed by the author "Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston April 2d 1877" Read More Item Details for The Professor at the Breakfast-table; with the Story of Iris Add to Wish List
Item #219732
Price: $300
Boston: n.y. Holmes writes, “I hope rather than [word illegible] to have the pleasure of attending the meeting of the Harvard Memorial Association. Yours very truly, O.W. Holmes”. Read More Item Details for Autograph note signed (“O.W. Holmes”), to “Dear Sir”, from 21 Charles Street [Boston], January 17 [n.y.] Add to Wish List
Item #20037
Price: $150
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First edition of this collection. Includes first appearance of the “Preface,” “Some More Recent Views on Homoeopathy,” and “Mechanism of Vital Actions.” With the cancelled state of signature 2 as usual. BAL first binding. Holmes on Homoeopathy and Natural Medicines. Read More Item Details for Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science with Other Addresses and Essays Add to Wish List
Item #17944
Price: $100
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1850. First Edition, first issue with the ampersand in the printer's imprint on copyright page printed slightly above the line. Only 2500 copies of this issue were printed. Now scarce. Read More Item Details for Astra: The Balance of Illustions. A Poem Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College August 14, 1850 Add to Wish List
Item #16647
Price: $300
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861. First edition. Magnificent copy of the first edition, a variant, without the inserted dedication leaf. "With the exception of the 'Preface,' 'Some More Recent Views on Homoeopathy' and 'Mechanism of Vital Actions,' all the material in this book had prior separate publication." Read More Item Details for Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science. With Other Addresses and Essays Add to Wish List
Item #16310
Price: $150
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1905. First edition with these Pyle color drawings. JOHN BARRYMORE'S COPY. "For this new edition Mr. Pyle has practically redrawn in color his won original illustrations (first issued in 1892), with results that give the volume an additional charm." Publisher's Note. Read More Item Details for The One Hoss Shay With Its Companion Poem Add to Wish List
Item #332644
Price: $150
London: Walter Scott, nd. Read More Item Details for The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table & The Poet at the Breakfast Table Add to Wish List
Item #252961
Price: $250
London: O. Rich & Sons, 12, red Lion Square, 1846. SIGNED. Contains Griswold's memoir (pp. xvii-xx) of the author from "Poets and Poetry of America." While including the contents of the 1836 "Poems" the following were added for this edition: "Departed Days;" "Lines Recited at the Berkshire Festival"; "The Only..... Read More Item Details for Poems Add to Wish List
Item #246798
Price: $175
[Boston] 296 Beacon Street: Feb. 8th, n.y. Read More Item Details for Autograph Note, signed in text ("Dr. Holmes"), declining an invitation from the Papyrus Club "for the evening of Feb. 18" Add to Wish List
Item #221684