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The Song of Hiawatha
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus.
- Seller
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Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First Edition, First Printing. Very good plus.. iv,316pp. plus [12]pp. publisher's ads. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Light wear to binding, small nick to cloth on front board, a few ink spots on front cover. Light toning but generally clean and fresh internally. A tight, solid copy. First American edition, first state with appropriate issue points including the 12pp. ads dated November 1855. A handsome copy of this work, published just a few months after its English counterpart.
BAL12112. Grolier American 100, 66.
BAL12112. 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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- Bookseller
- McBride Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1402
- Title
- The Song of Hiawatha
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1855
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McBride Rare Books
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Dobbs Ferry, New York
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