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The Song of Hiawatha
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Some wear at ends of spine and corners, very bright internally, a very good or better copy
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. Some wear at ends of spine and corners, very bright internally, a very good or better copy. 8vo. 316 pages; 12-page publisher's advertisements at end dated November 1855. Original brown blind-blocked publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Provenance: S. G. Bogert, New York City (contemporary inscription on front flyleaf). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing, with all of the typographic features described in BAL, in the standard binding. The American edition was published several months after its publication in London. BAL 12112; Grolier 'American 100' 66.
Synopsis
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.
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- Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 404958
- Title
- The Song of Hiawatha
- Author
- LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
- Book Condition
- Used - Some wear at ends of spine and corners, very bright internally, a very good or better copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1855
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literature;
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