POEMS of HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: New Revised Edition--: with Numerous Illustrations
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good overall w owner stamp on fep (dated 4/26/1890), first signature (pp i-xiv) detached but binding is otherwise tight, light e
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1886. Hardcover in pale green pictorial boards (dogwood flowers & decorative borders), stamped in black & gilt, all edges gilt. Good overall w owner stamp on fep (dated 4/26/1890), first signature (pp i-xiv) detached but binding is otherwise tight, light edgewear and soiling, spine faded. A deluxe edition of Longfellow*s poems with numerous b/w tissue-guarded plates incl frontispiece engraving of author, with orange border lines surrounding the text on every page. Overall, a sturdy and still readable copy, with handsome cover. Also laid-in is a yellowed 1918 newspaper clipping reporting poet Joyce Kilmer being killed in action.
6 x 8-3/4, 492 pp, index, b/w illus, black endpapers.
6 x 8-3/4, 492 pp, index, b/w illus, black endpapers.
Synopsis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882) was an American poet whose works include Paul Revere's Ride , The Song of Hiawatha , and Evangeline. Most of his works were lyrical poems which often utilized mythology and legend.
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- Bookseller
- edburynbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5386
- Title
- POEMS of HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: New Revised Edition--
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in pale green pictorial boards (dogwood flowers & decorative borders), stamped in black & gilt, all edges gilt
- Book Condition
- Used - Good overall w owner stamp on fep (dated 4/26/1890), first signature (pp i-xiv) detached but binding is otherwise tight, light e
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- Fiction, Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Poetry;
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edburynbooks
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Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
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