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GUSN-149628
xiv, [1], 213, [3] p. front., plates (1 double) 26 cm.
Intellectual life.
Social life and customs.
Description and travel.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed.
Childhood and college days, 1809-1830.--Habits and habitations.--Boston in war time.--The Coliseum and the Boston fire.--Boston versus England.--"The Hub."--Boston the lecture cradle.--Boston the bookish.--Boston elms and the long path.--Farewell, Boston.
Boston, New York
xiv, [1], 213, [3] p. front., plates (1 double) 26 cm.
Title vignette.
"This edition consists of seven hundred and fifty numbered copies, of which this is number X, publisher's copy."
"The 'Boston of Holmes' as set forth by himself. The many passages ... have been gleaned from his entire works and have been fitted together in chronological order."--Pref.
Stacks PS1984.T5
Boston (Mass.)
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