[Rarebooks] FS: Oliver Wendell Holmes INSCRIBED to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell [LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth]. ASTRAEA Inscribed 
by Holmes to Longfellow. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. First 
Edition. 39 pages. BAL 8757: First Printing, State B (A?), Binding A of 
original glazed boards: 2500 copies printed of this poem delivered at 
the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College on 14 August 1850. INSCRIBED 
and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "H. W. Longfellow/With 
the compliments of/O. W. Holmes." An absolutely superb presentation copy 
linking two giants of nineteenth century American Literature. With the 
bookplate of the Longfellow Collection of Harvard College Library on the 
front pastedown, deaccessioned. Dampstain to slightly more than the 
lower half of nearly all of the pages but not affecting the inscription. 
Spine, as is usually the case, partly eroded. Still Very Good. One could 
not hope for a better association.. 		$10,000.00

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