The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858.
First edition. (First printing with black and red title page and period after the word "Company"; slightly larger variant not listed in BAL, with no fleur-de-lis on spine and a larger text block with an extra centimeter on margins. Currier & Tilton, Bibliography of Holmes, pages 69-72; BAL 8781). viii, 373, [1], [2] ad pp. With engraved title and eight plates. Bound in publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine with gilt lettering. Very Good with touches of wear and fraying to extremities, cartoon of author mounted on front free endpaper, hinges tender, binding otherwise holding, faint age-toning to pages, a few easily-erasable penciled notes to prelims and margins. One of the most often reprinted works of 19th century American literature, and the book which made the author famous. Item #140941905
Price: $600.00