Twenty Poems from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (First Thus) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1884

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston. Fair with no dust jacket. 1884. Hardcover. Floral fabric (white and yellow daisies on red background) covered boards, quarterbound in woven beige with red floral pattern. Fabric is peeling from covers mostly at bottom half, surfaces scuffed, under cardboard visible, spine sunned and splitting vertically along fold edges. Both gutters splitting with webbing visible but still attached. Illustrated from paintings by his son, Ernest W. Longfellow. Photos on request. ; 9.0 X 7.0 X 0.50 inches; 61 pages .

1884. Erstausgabe (Firtst Edition), Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, o.J. [1884], gr.8°, 61 S. mit einem s/w-Porträt als Frotispiz (inkl. dem Seidenhemdchen) sowie zahlr. s/w-Illustr. im Text von Ernest W. Longfellow, original Halbleinen-Einband mit goldener Rückenbeschriftung und schönen floralen Seidenbezügen, Vollgoldschnitt, die Buchkanten inkl. der schönen Seidenbezüge stellenweise etwas berieben, zeitgen. Besitzervermerk bzw. sehr kurze Widmung von 1889 auf der floral gemusterten Vorsatzseite, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar und sehr dekorativ (Ho2) Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the shipping cost. (= Sollte Ihre Bestellung mehr als 1k wiegen, müssten die Portokosten angepasst werden, Sie bekämen vorab eine Anfrage per Email.)

Boston. Good with no dust jacket; Cloth; Houghton Mifflin Co; 1884. Green cloth with gilt lettering & decorations, good, includes frontispiece of Longfellow. Edges rubbed, chipping to spine, light soiling, 61 pgs. Beveled edges, all page edges gilt, . black and white illustrations thru out by Ernest Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's son.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth over bevel-edged boards; front cover and spine stamped in blind and gilt; all edges gilt; olive green end papers; frontispiece with tissue-guard still in place. Clean, square covers, with light wear to tips of corners and along spine ends. Gift inscription in violet ink to front fly-leaf (appears to be an association copy signed by publisher and dated in Boston, Sept 15 '83, with inscription to Boston architect Henry Kenway.) Houghton's own bookplate mounted to reverse of front free end paper. Text block is tightly bound; bright, clean interior. 8vo, 61 pages.