[Rarebooks] FS: Oliver Wendell Holmes SIGNED Book with Handwritten Quote from "The Last Leaf"

[Charles Agvent]

[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. EVERY MAN 
HIS OWN BOSWELL. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1890. Revised 
Edition. Small octavo (3-1/4" x 5-5/8") in original flexible blue cloth. 
A Grolier American 100 book, this would be a run-of-the-mill copy but 
for the remarkable holograph additions by Holmes within. On the recto of 
the ad page before the title page announcing other titles by Holmes the 
author has handwritten the last and best known stanza of his famous poem 
--"And if I should live to be/The last leaf upon the tree/In the 
spring,/Let them smile, as I do now,/At the old forsaken bough/Where I 
cling"--and SIGNED with his initials and the dates 1831 and 1890 
corresponding to the date of authorship and the date of the inscription. 
There is some light feathering to the ink on some of the words which is 
likely why the poem is lightly striked with an x in pencil and written 
out AGAIN by Holmes on the light yellow front endpaper, again in ink, 
and SIGNED as before. In addition, on the front blank between the two 
pages with the holograph manuscript, the author has INSCRIBED and SIGNED 
the book: Dr. W. E. Rust/with the kind regards of/Oliver Wendell 
Holmes." Some toning to the text. Neatly and recently rebacked retaining 
the original spine, the cloth clean and bright. Near Fine.

Dr. Rust was a surgeon operating in California in the 1850s and was 
contracted by the U.S. Government in the 1870s to work with the Apaches. 
(#015369)        $2,000

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