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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL

A Mortal Antipathy: First Opening of the New Portfolio -- Riveside Edition (the Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume VII [7])

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1897. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 1897 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER. 307 pages. Original red cloth hardcover binding -- spine label mostly worn away, but was brown leather with gold lettering. Gilt top page ridge. Front hinge slightly loose -- front flyleaves loose but included. Light stain on top edge of front cover, otherwise minor shelf wear. Pages only very slightly toned (less than expected). "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century. He was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Abiel Holmes (1763-1837), a Calvinist clergyman, avid historian, author of Annals of America and unnotable poetry and his second wife, Sarah Wendell, from a prominent New York family. Through her, Dr. Holmes was descended from Massachusetts Governors Thomas Dudley and Simon Bradstreet and his wife, Dudley's daughter, Anne Bradstreet, the first published American female poet. In 1840, Holmes married Amelia Lee Jackson, daughter of the Hon. Charles Jackson (1775-1855), formerly Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Their son was the Civil War hero and great American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He was educated at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and at Harvard College. In 1833 Holmes attended the famed École de Médecine in Paris. He pursued his medical studies in the Parisian hospital system, popularly viewed as the birthplace of modern medicine and the modern style of medical education[1], at institutions such as La Charité and Le Pitié. Holmes was a student of Dr. Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis, who demonstrated in Recherches sur les effets de la saignée dans quelques maladies inflammatoires the ineffectiveness of bloodletting as a treatment for fevers and other disorders which had been a mainstay of medical practice since antiquity. Dr. Louis, Holmes' teacher, by his work, was one of the fathers of the méthode expectante, the therapeutic doctrine claiming that the physician's role was only to assist nature as it healed. Upon his return to Boston Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. became one of leading proponents of the méthode expectante in America.[2]. Holmes' M.D. was ultimately granted from Harvard where he would later become Parkman Professor of Anatomy and Physiology He first attained national prominence with his poem Old Ironsides about the 18th century frigate USS Constitution, which was to be broken up for scrap; the poem generated public sentiment that resulted in the historic ship being preserved as a monument. One of his most popular works was The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. He was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. He contributed poems and essays to the Atlantic Monthly from its inception, and also published novels. Holmes is also known for his writing of several beautiful hymns. In 1843, Holmes published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever and controversially concluded that puerperal fever was frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses.[3] Holmes, along with Ignaz Semmelweis in 1846, were the first to publish recommendations that healthcare workers wash their hands. Although his recommendations had little impact on health practices at the time, as a result of the seminal studies by Semmelweis and Holmes, handwashing gradually became accepted as one of the most important measures for preventing transmission of pathogens in health-care facilities.[4] Holmes was also a vocal critic of homeopathy. He published an essay Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions in which he denounced the practice. In 1846, in a letter to William T. G. Morton, the dentist who was the first practitioner to publicly demonstrate the use of ether during surgery, Holmes coined the word anesthesia. Dr. Holmes developed the popular model of the stereoscope, a 19th century entertainment in which pictures were viewed in 3-D. He was widely known and admired during his life. The noted Sherlockian Michael Harrison conjectured that the British author Arthur Conan Doyle drew one inspiration for his famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes from a real-life self-described "consulting detective" named Wendel Scherer changing "Scherer" to "Sherlock" and "Wendel" to "Holmes" by association with Oliver Wendell Holmes.[5] For many years, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was his private secretary. Holmes died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. The school library of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA is Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, or the OWHL." -- Wikipedia. Introduction; Getting Ready; The Boat-Race; The White Canoe; The Young Solitary; The Enigma Studied; Still at Fault; A Record of Antipathies; The Pansophian Society; The Society and Its New Secretary; A New Arrival; The Interviewer Attacks the Sphinx; Miss Vincent as a Medical Student; Dr. Butts Reads a Paper; Miss Vincent's Startling Discovery; Dr. Butts Calls on Euthymia; Miss Vincent Writes a Letter; Dr. Butts's Patient; Maurice Kirkwood's Story of His Life; The Report of the Biological Committee; Dr. Butts Reflects; An Intimate Conversation; Euthymia; The Meeting of Maurice and Euthymia; The Inevitable; Postscript: After-Glimpses.

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[SHERLOCK HOLMES. DOYLE (A.C), [SIR], CONTRIBUTES. PAGET (S), ILLUS.] NEWNES (G), ED.:

THE STRAND MAGAZINE. AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY. EDITED BY GEORGE NEWNES. VOL. VI [ONLY]. JULY TO DECEMBER 1893. NEAR FINE HOLMES IN THE 'STRAND' GEORGE NEWNES, 1893

Roy. 8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in blue and black, gilt back, bevelled boards, sprinkled edges, a near fine copy. Contains the first appearance of five Sherlock Holmes stories, namely: 'The Adventure of the Crooked Man', 'The Adventure of the Resident Patient', 'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter', 'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty' (in two consecutive parts) and 'The Adventure of the Final Problem'. The tales appear here under the series title 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' and numbered XX-XXIV respectively. All the Paget drawings, including the classic full-page illustration of Holmes and Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, are remarkably bright and clean. The five stories (together with six others) appeared in book form as 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes' (1894). Uncommon in this condition. De Waal, 44, 228, 81, 168 and 68 respectively.

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[SHERLOCK HOLMES. DOYLE (A.C), [SIR], CONTRIBUTES. PAGET (S), ILLUS.] NEWNES (G), ED.:

The Strand Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly. Edited by George Newnes. Vol. VI [only]. July to December 1893. Near fine Holmes in the 'Strand'

George Newnes, 1893 Roy. 8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in blue and black, gilt back, bevelled boards, sprinkled edges, a near fine copy. Contains the first appearance of five Sherlock Holmes stories, namely: 'The Adventure of the Crooked Man', 'The Adventure of the Resident Patient', 'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter', 'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty' (in two consecutive parts) and 'The Adventure of the Final Problem'. The tales appear here under the series title 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' and numbered XX-XXIV respectively. All the Paget drawings, including the classic full-page illustration of Holmes and Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, are remarkably bright and clean. The five stories (together with six others) appeared in book form as 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes' (1894). Uncommon in this condition. De Waal, 44, 228, 81, 168 and 68 respectively.

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HOLMES, JOHN [CLENNON].

TWO TYPED SIGNED LETTERS FROM JOHN HOLMES TO LEO GAREN DISCUSSING JACK KEROUAC, 'THE HORN,' THE WRITING PROCESS, THE CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS, ETC.

Saybrook, Conn. to New York City, 1959/1962 2 TLS on 11 x 8-1/2 in. stationary, (1) full page, 5 paragraph, dated April 10, 1959, (1) exceedingly long paragraph extending from top of p.1 over to bottom of p.2, dated Dec. 3, 1962; in typed envelopes with Holmes' return address. Both fine. ¶ In the first of these letters from the renowned Beat author to his friend theatrical director & playwright, film and TV director, Leo Garen, Holmes writes about the 'real bitch of a bad time' he's having on a new novel, and the adaptation of his jazz/Beat masterpiece, The Horn, for the stage which Garen is collaborating on. ¦ In the second, extraordinary letter to Garen, Holmes, who was one of Kerouac's best friends and with whom he coined the term 'Beat' to describe their generation, writes: 'Jack was here for a week, drinking well over a quart of cognac a day, in excellent shape somehow, and we had eight solid days of the most extraordinary talk, wrangling, arguing, bitching, giggling, laughing, and boozing....,' with an additional two sentences on Kerouac, and mention of Gregory Corso. Holmes discusses at some length the status of the film adaptation/production of the The Horn , a deal for a non-fiction title for Viking covering his thoughts on 'well, everything!' including the 'Revolution in Consciousness' in the arts etc., and his thoughts on the writing process: '...like working in an iron mine with a nail file; making bricks with sand and saliva;...,' with additional comments on the recent Cuban Missle Crisis. Rare, intimate thoughts from one of the keystone figures of the Beat Generation.

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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL

OUR HUNDRED DAYS IN EUROPE. BOSTON AND NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 1887

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 8vo. [iv], iv, 329 pp., plus 14 pages publisheraes advertisements. Original olive pictorial cloth, title and authoraes name in gilt to spine; corners and extremities of spine lightly rubbed, hinges slightly cracked, else fine. Four line manuscript poem signed and dated by Holmes to fly-leaf; typed anecdote which refers to Holmesae reading of this particular copy tipped in to front free end-paper; two newspaper clippings, one an obituary of Holmesae daughter, the other a funny story about Holmes, tipped into index page. First American edition, with the chronological error as found in all copies of the first edition. Binding A. Written after Holmesae tour of Europe. Holmesae only daughter, Amelia, accompanied Holmes on this trip, and died shortly thereafter. The book is dedicated to her. The chronological error, found on page 6, refers to the monument of a Rear Admiral Charles Holmes. Holmes states that the admiral accompanied Wolfe on the capture of Quebec, and that oDryden has immortalized him in the Annus mirabilis.oe This was of course impossible, as Wolfeaes victory at Quebec took place in 1759, and Drydenaes work was written nearly a century earlier, in 1667. Quite an amusing mistake to have been made by such a well lettered poet, and member of the Historical Society!

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( Sherlock Holmes) - Lecaye Alexis.

Einstein & Sherlock Holmes.

Payot 1989. In-8 broché. Couverture photo de Einstein grimé en Holmes. Excellent pastiche ou Sherlock Holmes croise le destin de Einstein. Exemplaire du service de presse. Edition originale.

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( Sherlock Holmes ) - Nelson Douglas Carole.

Sherlock Holmes et sa muse.

Editions du Masque 2003. In-8 broché. Couverture illustrée. Edition originale de ce très bon pastiche où Sherlock Holmes. Coupures de presse sur Holmes jointes. Légère pliures de lecture au dos, sinon superbe état. Edition originale

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( Sherlock Holmes ) - Stoianov Isabelle.

Le pire ennemi de Sherlock Holmes.

Revue Historia n° 404 de 1980. In-8 broché. Couverture avec photo de Robert Stephens extraite du film de Billy Wilder " La vie privée de Sherlock Holmes ". Etude de 8 pages avec photos sur Sherlock Holmes. Etat proche du neuf. Edition originale.

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HOLMES, JOHN CLELLON,

AUTOGRAPH Typed Letter Signed.

. This is a typed letter signed by Holmes. Three paragraphs. Holmes apologizes for not being John Holmes who passed away. He explains who he is and why he has a cumbersome middle name. He said ihe and John Holmes corresponded 'waggishly' over who had to use the middle name. He writes that he is a teacher at the University of Arkansas though the address on the letter is Box 75 in Old Saybrook, Conn 06475. Signed his name in blue. Letter size paper, folded twice. The date on the typed envelope with a return address label is postmarked 1 Aug 1978.;; Signed by Author.

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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, JR. AND FREDERICK POLLACK

Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., and Sir Frederick Pollack. Howe, Mark DeWolfe, Editor. Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock 1874-1932. Introduction by John Gorham Palfrey. Two volumes in one. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946. vii, 359 pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, gilt title to spine. Owner inscription to front flyleaf, interior otherwise clean. Moderate shelfwear. Binding a little loose but secure. Ex-library small stamps to front pastedown and top page edges. $5.

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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL

The Oliver Wendell Holmes Year Book.

Houghton Mifflin: 1894. (ISBN: 0-669-00731-5) Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. The publisher notes: "The present selection of passages from Dr. Holmes writings follows that adopted in the Holmes Birthday Book published several years ago. The selection then made had such regard for significant days, and offered so wide a range of illustration of Dr. Holmes's genius." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER. Very Good.

Bookseller reference : 007079 ISBN : 0669007315

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR, OLIVER WENDELL

ESSENAL HOLMES. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 1997

Oliver Wenll Holmes, Jr, has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this collection of his speeches, opinions, and letters Richard Posner reveals the fullness of Holmes' achievements as judge, historian and philosopher.

Bookseller reference : 9780226675541

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL

THE WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. BOSTON & NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND CO., 1892.

Thirteen volumes. 8vo. Title pages in red and black, engraved and photogravure frontispieces, numerous full-page plates (many in colour). Each illustration with its printed tissue guard. Magnificently bound in full purple morocco, gilt double ruled covers enclosing elaborate gilt decorated floral and vine design with pointelle and a red rose, elaborate gilt spine in 6 compartment with red roses, doublures in two colours of morocco with fillets and a floral design in each corner, flyleaves of purple silk moire. The Artists' Edition of Holmes' works, limited to 750 copies, ours being No. 265. Illustrations by Howard Pyle, Frank T. Merrill, H.M. Brock and others.Included in Volume I is a Holmes ALS, three pages written in brown ink, 32 lines, dated Boston, Feb. 14, 1881. In it Holmes discusses the book Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise, and his interest in the names of many familiar plants as well as having a constant reference to the famous ancient doctrine of signatures. He notes Dioscorides, Culpeper, and William Cotes. He feels that only Gerard's Herbal covers the same ground. He appreciates the valuable addition to his library, stating that it will find a very warm welcome on his shelf next to his copy of Dioscorides. An absolutely exquisite set in mint condition, many leaves uncut.

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