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THE SONG OF HIAWATHA
by LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Rebound/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York, Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press, 1891. Brown textured cloth. Original front cover bound-in front pastedown. Some off-setting onto adjacent page. Portrait frontispiecde of the author a a young man. Twent-two full-page illustrations and numerous marginal illustrations by FREDERIC REMINGTON. Captioned tissue-guards on 20/22. Some occasional foxing, spotting on periphery of plates, never heavy. 242pp. See BAL 12720, McCracken p.149, Dykes 786. A fine edition of this classic American poem, illustrated by one of the finest Western artists in American-a grand duet!. First Remington Edition. 1/2 Brown Calf,. Rebound/No Jacket. Large Octavo.
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
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014174
- Title
- THE SONG OF HIAWATHA
- Author
- LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Rebound
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Remington Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York, Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1891
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- American Poetry, Remington, Illustrated
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Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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