The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Modern Library #56.2) by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth - [c.1949]

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1949]. Hardcover. A Modern Library collection of Longfellows's best-loved poetry (including "Evangeline", "The Song of Hiawatha", "Tales of a Wayside Inn", "The Courtship of Miles Standish" among others). Includes a handful of black & white drawings scattered through the text. Book wrapped in jacket with Valenti Angelo illustration of a snowy New England scene to front panel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale grey cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 341 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1949 (no publication date appears in book). ML #56.2. --- An about Very Good copy: clean and tightly-bound but with ticked-off titles at table of contents. The beginnings of a split to front hinge has been carefully repaired prior to this listing. Unclipped dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges (especially at head of spine), else bright and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xi, 732 pages .