Original blue cloth, gilt. Mild rubbing and slightly shaken but a very good bright copy in a rare cloth color. Tipped in is a card signed in full by Holmes, dated at Boston, January 27, 1776. The first of Holmes' four breakfst-table books, and the source of his most frequently quated phrases (Boston as a hub of the Universe; the mutual admiration society, The Chambered Nautilus, etc.). Invariably found in dull tan cloth, but also issued in red, blue, green, black, and purple cloth. Colors other than tan are seldom encountered in the first printing. Currier-Tilton, pp. 69-73. BAL 8781. Johnson Highspot. Grolier American Hundred 69. Literature, Americana, American Literature. KHS.

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Titre: The Autocrat of the Breakfast - Table.
�diteur: Boston: Phillips, Sampson, . First Edition, First Printing, first binding.
Date de parution: 1858
Reliure: Couverture rigide
�dition: Edition originale
Sign�: Sign� par l'auteur

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