A Mortal Antipathy First Opening of The New Portfolio

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885.

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. First edition. Good plus Top of front hinge starting to crack but binding still sound, newspaper clippings about author glued to front pastedown, former owners inscription on front end page, spine ends bumped with some light tearing of cloth, spine and panels rubbed with light soiling, page edges browned, green cloth with gold stamping, top page ends gilded gold. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
birth name: Oliver Wendell Holmes
born: 8/29/1809
died: 10/7/1894

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Biography

American physician, poet, and humorist chiefly remembered for a few poems and for his "Breakfast-table" series of essays. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore