OUTRE - MER, A PILGRIMAGE BEYOND THE SEA by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846

New York: John W. Lovell Company. Good+. Half Leather. Attractive binding. Marbled boards showing edgewear. Some scuffing to leather and some loss at spine head. Note Hyperion is available in the same binding (sell stock #980193). ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages .

Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, 1891. Revised edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, brownish green cloth boards decorated in black and gilt on front and spine. Exterior shows minor spotting and soiling but edge and corner bumps are present with the bottom edges being the worst. The internal binding is good in text pages are secure. No hinge issues, no bookplates, no library markings. There is a gift inscription from the original owner on the front and page and is faint residue in the corner were an old bookstore price was once penciled. Going through the pages we did see that several of them did have pencil marks, these were basically limited to small X marks and a few pencil ticks. These are only found on three pages though there might be one or two that we missed. The only other issue is at the bottom of the exterior page edge textblock where there is a thin crease/dent running across the pages in both boards.

New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1882. Reissue. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Reissue. One gathering loose but included, page ridges and some pages foxed. 1882 Hard Cover. 276 pp. Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea is a prose collection by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was the first major work by Longfellow and it was inspired by his travels in Europe as a young man. The term "outre-mer" is French for "overseas". In preparation for his employment as a professor of language at his alma mater Bowdoin College, Longfellow traveled to Europe. His stay there may have inspired Outre-Mer. It is his first published literary work after previously publishing academic texts. After Longfellow received a professorship at Harvard College, he rented a room in Cambridge, Massachusetts from Elizabeth Craigie, the widow of Andrew Craigie, who had been the first Apothecary General of the United States, in the summer of 1837. Assuming the young-looking Longfellow was a… Read More

Wildside Press, 2008-07-07. Paperback. Good.

Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1884. This antique hardcover book is bound in dark green cloth boards, with gilt spine lettering. Some minor wear and soil, binding is quite firm. Bookplate on front endpaper. Outre-Mer is Longfellow's first major published work, a collection of prose sketches detailing his travels in Europe. 364 pages; approx. 5"x7".. Hardcover. Good.

Borgo Press, 2002-06-01. Paperback. Good.

David McKay, 1890-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. late 19th century highly embossed cover with bees on front

Boston, MA: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1848. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, original stamped brown cloth boards with gilt text on spine. Front board is detached and spine has chipping and cracks present. Despite the rough exterior the internal binding of the text pages is good though rear hinge is cracked at both the board in the beginning of the rear end pages. Paper is toned due to age and spotting and foxing is present. One of the rear end pages has the lower outside corner missing, this tear measures several inches. The rear pastedown has a number 81.154 written in pencil in several of the pages as pencil lines lightly written outside of the text area where somebody marked some key paragraphs. The book appears otherwise complete, good copy for reading or reference. Title page states third edition.

Belford, Clarke. Caxton Ed. Prior to 1885. (inscription of that date on..., 1885. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12 mo. hardcover. Rare book. Embossed pictorial dark green cloth with black and gold. good cond with minor shelfwear, pages browned. First endpapers have small water stain. Front hinge starting. 275 pp. About Longfellow's travels from England across the sea to France, Spain, and Italy.

New York: John W. Lovell Company. Very Good-. N.D.. Softcover. Light wear to spine ends. Staples are rusted. ; Approx. 4 3/4" wide by 7". ; Lovell's Library No. 2; 276 + ads pages .