The Last Leaf
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886.
Price: $45.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. Fair with top edge gilt, in cream colored cloth spine with pictorial grey cloth covered boards, a tear down most of the front gutter and at the bottom rear gutter up about four inches, corners bumped and worn through, ink notations on front endpaper.
Item #305807
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