HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

The School-Boy

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 8vo (21.3 x 15 cm). 79 pages. Frontispiece, illustrations in text. Printed on rectos only. Original decorated beveled cloth, decorated endpapers, edges gilt. Chipped at ends of spine, light wear at corners, but an attractive copy. Item #406573

FIRST TRADE EDITION, first issued privately without a title-page nor identification of the author. Holmes read this poem on 6 June 1878 at the centennial of the founding of Philips Academy in Andover, MA. BAL 8931.

Price: $100.00