Jun 16, 2022 - Sale 2609

Sale 2609 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. The Last Leaf. Signed and Inscribed to Ulysses S. Grant's daughter Nellie, with an Autograph Quotation Signed from "The Last Leaf." The inscription, "Oliver Wendell Holmes / for / Miss Nellie Grant," on the front free endpaper. The quotation, stanza in 6 lines, dated below signature, on a front blank. Folio, publisher's cloth, gilt titling on spine and cover, top edge gilt; moderate scattered foxing throughout (not affecting inscriptions). First edition. Cambridge, 1886; inscription: Boston, 21 December 1885

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"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."