YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS : Justice Holmes and His Family
by Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944, 5th Printing 1944., 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo., hardcover, VG in green cloth,. No dj. 475 deckled pages. an Atlantic Monthly Press Book The story of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and His Family. This is the story of a great American. It is also, because they were an essential part of him, the story of the distinguished men from whom he sprang: his Calvinist grandfather Abiel and his father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston's witty poet, professor of anatomy and Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. In these three divergent lives the gulf between the generations is poignantly revealed; yet a common strength united them, and together they bear witness to the richness and continuity of American life.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11586a
- Title
- YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS : Justice Holmes and His Family
- Author
- Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944, 5th Printing 1944.
- Date Published
- 1944
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