The Last Leaf
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1886.
Price: $650.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. Folio. The boards are covered with contemporary muslin with needlework lettering and illustration on front and back covers that matches the style of the illustrations. Spine a little soiled, and muslin a little loose at the spine, a charming, near fine example. Unexamined out of the needlework cover, but no obvious evidence of damage.
Item #279438
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
birth name: Oliver Wendell Holmes
born: 8/29/1809
died: 10/7/1894
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