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[PYLE, Howard, illustrator]. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The On...

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[PYLE, Howard, illustrator]. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The One-Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. 8vo. Illustrated in color. [83] pp. Publisher?s full olive green cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt and blind, rear board stamped in blind, (binding toned, edgeworn, text toned, tissue guard to frontispiece chipped, some soiling in text, ownership of Kathleen Collins Howell on front blank). Very good. FIRST EDITION THUS, RE-ISSUED AFTER HOLMES? DEATH WITH RE-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS BY PYLE. Measurements: 9 x 6 x 1?.