Search Results: The Writings Of Oliver Wendell Holmes In Thirtee… by Oliver Wendell Holmes

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1891. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. A scarce set of the writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the popular American 'Fireside Poets'. The Riverside Edition. Comprising: Volume I, entitled 'The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man his own Boswell'; Volume II, 'The Professor at the Breakfast Table: With the Story of Iris'; Volume III, 'The Poet at the Breakfast Table: He Talks with his Fellow Boarders and the Reader'; Volume IV, 'Over the Teacups'; Volume V, 'Elsie Venner'; Volume VI, 'The Guardian Angel'; Volume VII, 'A Mortal Antipathy: First Opening of the New Portfolio'; Volume VIII, 'Pages from an Old Volume of Life: A Collection of Essays, 1857-1881'; Volume IX, 'Medical Essays, 1842-1882'; Volume X, 'Our Hundred Days in Europe'; and Volumes XI-XIII, 'The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Volumes I-III'. Featuring tissue guarded portrait frontispieces of Holmes to Volumes I, IV, and IX. Complete in thirteen… Read More