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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Mountain Home, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover - The Easton Press - 1981. Like New - First Edition. R. J. Holden, illustrator. Bound in dark blue leather with gilt page ends. Gilt lettering and decoration to boards and spine. Decorative raised spine hubs, satin endpapers and sewn-in satin bookmark. Blank Easton Oress bookplate laid in. Very clean and crisp, no writing or other markings noted. Sharp corners, spine straight. Binding tight, text clean and crisp. No bookplates or ownership markings. Lovely copy! (MBR)
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Friends of the Baxter County Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AUTOCRAT-HOLMES-MBR
- Title
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Illustrator
- R J Holden
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Date Published
- 1981
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Friends of the Baxter County Library
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Friends of the Baxter County Library
Biblio member since 2023
Mountain Home, Arkansas
About Friends of the Baxter County Library
Friends of the Baxter County Library provides funds to benefit our local library
Glossary
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
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