The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Phillips, Samson & Company, 1858. Boston: Phillips, Samson, 1858. First edition, first issue (period ater 'Company' on title page). Brown decorative cloth, titles in blind and in gilt to spine. 3 fleur-de-lis plus additional round decoration. 8vo. pp. viii, 373; frontispiece engraving plus 8 plates with protective tissue. Very shallow chipping top of spine, endpapers foxed. Internals unmarked. Very good condition. BAL 8781.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated. 8vo..
Synopsis
I was just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. All economical and practical wisdom is an extension or variation of the following arithmetical formula: 2+2=4. Every philosophical proposition has the more general character of the expression A+B=C. We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists, until we learn to think in letters instead of figures.
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- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021045
- Title
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Phillips, Samson & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1858
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Literature and Fiction; New England;
- Size
- 8vo.
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About the Seller
Rose's Books, IOBA
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts
About Rose's Books, IOBA
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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- BAL
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