Search Results: One Hundred Days In Europe by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. No Edition Stated. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Book has a slight forward lean. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth with gilt lettering. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Houghton Mifflin Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Riverside Edition. Volume X of 14 volume set. In red cloth with black leather label on spine. Circa early 1900's..

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New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1877. First Edition. This copy is extra-illustrated, with 50 plates. 8vo, very handsomely bound in full leather executed by James MacDonald in New York City. A fine copy, but for the covers being very tender, in attractive binding. A HANDSOME COPY OF HOLMES' EUROPEAN TRAVELS. "After an interval of more than fifty years I propose taking a second look at some parts of Europe. It is a Rip Van Winkle experiment which I am promising myself. The changes wrought by half a century in the countries I visited amount almost to a transformation. I left the England of William the Fourth, of the Duke of Wellington, of Sir Robert Peel; the France of Louis Philippe, of Marshal Soult, of Thiers, of Guizot. I went from Manchester to Liverpool by the new railroad, the only one I saw in Europe. I looked upon England from the box of a stage-coach, upon France from the coupe of a diligence, upon Italy from the cushion of a carrozza. The broken windows of Apsley House… Read More