Dorothy Q Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle by Holmes, Oliver Wendell - 1893: With illustrations by Howard Pyle

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Hardcover. Good. . Boards a bit bowed, otherwise good. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

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

Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. Hardcover. Very Fine. 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Fine. Houghton Mifflin, Boston / New York 1892. 131 pages. Dark grey cloth with silver decor, top page ends silver. Second Issue [BAL 9042]. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Poetry::Before 1900 Military History::USA::Revolutionary War History::U.S.A.::Colonial 6782 6782

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893. First Trade edition. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Decorations printed in red. 1 vols. 8vo. Slate gray cloth, stamped in silver. Bookplate of John Barrymore. First Trade edition. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Decorations printed in red. 1 vols. 8vo. JOHN BARRYMORE'S COPY. Reprint save for Preface pp. 5-7. BAL 9042

London: Gay and Bird, 1892. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". Howard Pyle. The first U.K. edition of the popular poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, beautifully illustrated throughout by Howard Pyle. The first U.K. trade edition of this work.An anthology of three poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 'Dorothy Q', 'A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party', and 'Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle'.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and many full-paged and in-text illustrations.Holmes was an american poet based in Boston, best known for his 'Breakfast-Table' series.Illustrated by Howard Pyle.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper, and to the recto to the front free endpaper.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.One page of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Rear hinge is starting a… Read More

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Front endpaper and blank partly detached at the top; small tear to the head of the spine. Near Fine. Howard Pyle. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with plates, drawings, head and tail-pieces by Howard Pyle. An interesting copy inscribed on the front blank: "Dear Dr. Holmes/I am going to give/this charming little edition/To my Wife/on her birthday/18th Nov. 1892/Don't you want to add, for/her, a value beyond/printing ink by a stroke of/your pen?/W.W. Vaughan." Holmes has obliged by writing on the recto of the frontispiece 8 lines from the book beginning with the line "Soft is the breath of a maiden's Yes" and ending with "You may hear to-day in a hundred men." Holmes has added the page numbers where the lines appear and SIGNED and dated the quote "Boston, November 18th, 1892." Laid in is a SIGNED card by Holmes with the same date INSCRIBED "With my best wishes for/Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan."