Holmes, Oliver Wendell: Dorothy Q : Together with a Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell : Dorothy Q : Together with a Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1893

BAL 9042. Publisher's gray cloth binding with silver lettering, minor rubbing on edges and bumping of bottom corners. 131 pages with 62 illustrations. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.(1809-1894) was an American physician, professor, author and poet, regarded by some as one of the best writers of the 19th century. He was one of the Fireside Poets, a group of popular 19th century poets from New England. This volume contains 3 poems : "Dorothy Q", an ode to a portrait of Holmes great-grandmother, Dorothy Quincy Jackson, "A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party" and "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill", poems of those famous historical events.. Illustr.: Pyle, Howard. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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