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(Oliver Wendell Holmes first novel) ELSIE VENNER: A ROMANCE OF DESTINY, Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1861, first edition, 2 vols, 12mo, bound in blind-paneled and decorated brown pub cloth, spines titled in gilt, small stamp, "Waters, Baltimore" on lower edge, rpd, bindings chipped at top of spines, wear to extremities, contents are clean and tight as are hinges, 16 pp pub ads at rear of vol. 2, dated Jan, 1861, which according to BAL 8801, makes this a variant of a very scarce first issue. Overall g to vg cond.
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