Description: Our Hundred Days In Europe by Oliver Wendell Holmes Year: 1888 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin & Co. Condition: Great condition. Imperfections as shown in included photos. "After an interval of more than fifty years I propose taking a second look at some parts of Europe. It is a Rip Van Winkle experiment which I am promising myself. The changes wrought by half a century in the countries I visited amount almost to a transformation. I left the England of William the Fourth, of the Duke of Wellington, of Sir Robert Peel; the France of Louis Philippe, of Marshal Soult, of Thiers, of Guizot. I went from Manchester to Liverpool by the new railroad, the only one I saw in Europe. I looked upon England from the box of a stage-coach, upon France from the coupe of a diligence, upon Italy from the cushion of a carrozza. The broken windows of Apsley House were still boarded up when I was in London." This book, along with others in my storefront, were recently retrieved from a storage unit where they have been packed away and untouched since 1969. Most of these books belonged to the daughter of the president of the American Book Company, a publishing company that was founded in 1890. Before his retirement in 1916, he also worked as the Chicago representative for Harper and Brother’s company. These books were all lovingly looked after before and after their period in storage and are in great condition for their age.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topic: Literature
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
