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Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [1941]. The historic secret Atlantic Conference was held between August 9th and 12th, 1941 on a warship anchored in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. At that momentous meeting, the two leaders and their military aides agreed upon critical policies for the conduct of a joint war against Germany, even though the U.S. was still officially neutral and would remain so until December 8. The meetings culminated in the Atlantic Charter, a declaration of principles issued a few days after the conference. Often compared to Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Charter also laid the foundation for the United Nations Declaration, signed by 26 nations in January 1942.

London: [s.n.], 1786 Two volumes. Both volumes inscribed by Hawthorne to Longfellow on front flyleaves: "Nath. Hawthorne / to / H. W. Longfellow / 1841" (Vol. I) and "H. W. Longfellow / from / Nath. Hawthorne / 1841" (Vol. II). Both volumes additionally inscribed on front flyleaves by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, the grandson of both Longfellow and Richard Henry Dana Jr. (author of Two Years Before the Mast, 1840), to Manning Hawthorne, Hawthorne's great-grandson, exactly one hundred years after initial inscription: "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana / to / Manning Hawthorne / 1941." Both volumes finely bound in contemporary brown calf, boards bordered in gilt, spines decorated, ruled, and lettered in gilt, with black leather labels, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Ovid by Marillier to Vol. I, bookplates of H. W. Longfellow and modern owner to front pastedowns. Very good set, with corners worn to boards, some wear to edges… Read More

Consisting of two books inscribed to James T. Fields, one to Fields’s future wife, as well as eight holograph pages in two letters from Longfellow to Fields. Comprising the following: Voices of the Night; and Other Poems. Illustrated with Sixty-Four Drawings on Wood. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. BAL 12368. Likely in what is termed a “gift” binding (deluxe, more ornately decorated than regular trade issues) in publisher’s blue cloth, decorated in gilt; all edges gilt. In excellent condition; with a tipped-in inscription from the author, “James T. Fields from his friend the Author. January 1852.” The final digit “2” has been gone over in slightly darker ink, whether by Longfellow himself, Fields, or anyone else cannot be determined. Hyperion: A Romance. Illustrated with Nearly 100 Engravings on Wood. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1853. First American Illustrated Edition. BAL 12375. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “James T. Fields with the regards of Henry W.… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Field, 1858. First American edition published shortly after the London edition. First printing with "treacherous wine" on p. 124.3. 215 [12] pp.; ads dated October. 12mo. Publisher's original brown cloth, near fine, with slight rubbing to corners; advert for the Waverley Novels tipped in to endpapers, bookplate of Stephen Wakemen to front paste down; Nightingale's ownership signatures to title page and title to "Miles Standish"; Longfellow ALS with envelope tipped into front blanks; final page in "Filomena" (185-6) creased. First American edition published shortly after the London edition. First printing with "treacherous wine" on p. 124.3. 215 [12] pp.; ads dated October. 12mo. 'The Lady with the Lamp''s own copy, and the Wakeman Copy, with a tipped-in Longfellow letter. Florence Nightingale's lovely copy of The Courtship of Miles Standish, which contains the poem "Santa Filomena" that christened Nightingale as 'The Lady with the Lamp', an image forever after associated with… Read More

N.p., 1864. 4 pp. manuscript inlaid to size, extra-illustrated with 2 engraved portraits, an engraved view of Longfellow's Cambridge home, and a letterpress printed edition of the poem. 4to. Full red morocco gilt, front cover with triple gilt rule border with decorative floral cornerpieces around central gilt title, spine titled in gilt, silk moiré endpapers, a.e.g. by C. Walters. Joints lightly rubbed, faint traces of dampstain to inner hinges (bottom two inches only, not affecting contents), small repaired tear on one mount. Fine. 4 pp. manuscript inlaid to size, extra-illustrated with 2 engraved portraits, an engraved view of Longfellow's Cambridge home, and a letterpress printed edition of the poem. 4to. 'Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, / And Edith with golden hair': The Children's Hour. Beautiful presentation of this fair copy by Longfellow of one of his most delightful poems, "The Children's Hour" [ ... ] Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with… Read More

Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Dampstain to slightly more than the lower half of nearly all of the pages but not affecting the inscription. Spine, as is usually the case, partly eroded. Still Very Good. One could not hope for a better association. BAL 8757: First Printing, State B (A?), Binding A of original glazed boards; 39 pages: 2500 copies printed of this poem delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College on 14 August 1850. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "H. W. Longfellow/With the compliments of/O. W. Holmes." An absolutely superb presentation copy linking two giants of nineteenth century American Literature. With the bookplate of the Longfellow Collection of Harvard College Library on the front pastedown, deaccessioned.

Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. Longfellow, very conscious of his public persona, published this collection of poems in support of the United States anti-slavery efforts even though he feared it would hurt him commercially. At the time of publication reviews were mixed. Contemporary critics, however, have noted that Longfellow's use of language and vivid imagery throughout the poems anticipated Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin which later helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.

8 letters comprising 26 pages. Beautifully presented in a fine crimson straight-grained morocco album with an engraved portrait of Longfellow by Hollyer, each letter mounted on a separate leaf. A lovely presentation.
This is a fine series of letter from Longfellow, the most celebrated and popular poet in America, and Paul Hamilton Hayne, the most famous southern poet of his era. In the first letter Longfellow tells Haynes that the promised volume of poems has not reached him. He assures the South Carolina poet that "this is of no great consequence, as you know already my opinion of your writings."
The main sequence of letters is connected with Longfellow's Poems of Places anthology. Hayne offered contributions of his own poems and suggested works by other southerners. Longfellow warns that "I could hardly use Mr. Simms' war poems" and will limit them in number. He observes that he will use Timrod's "Charleston" and Brownell's "River Right" because of their poetic merit. In a postscript he notes that… Read More

Boston, 1864. Working draft, 7 pages on 2 folded sheets of pale blue stationery; with several revisions in Longfellow's hand. 4to. Mounted on hinges and bound in quarter blue morocco and blue cloth and housed in a slipcase. Working draft, 7 pages on 2 folded sheets of pale blue stationery; with several revisions in Longfellow's hand. 4to. A Manuscript for Tales of a Wayside Inn. First published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1864 and incorporated into Tales of a Wayside Inn as "The Spanish Jew's Tale. / Kambalu. Begun January 26, 1864 - Finished February 12, 1864. " His source for the "Kambalu" is Il Milione by Marco Polo. Longfellow's manuscript was originally consigned by James T. Fields to auction in June, 1864, for "The U.S. Sanitary Commission". Provenance: David Gage Joyce Sale, Hanzel Galleries, September 23, 1973

Np, 1850. 9 stanzas, 36 lines. 3pp., folded small 4to sheet. Signed at the end. Old folds, minor repair to short separation. 9 stanzas, 36 lines. 3pp., folded small 4to sheet. Signed at the end. One of Longfellow's most famous poems, written after the death of his wife and first published in 1838. Although brief excerpts were frequently written by Longfellow for autograph seekers, the complete transcript is rare. The poem begins: Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.

London: David Bogue, 1853. FIRST EDITION. 205 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/4"). xii, [2], 304 pp. ANIMATED CREAM-COLORED MOROCCO, INLAID AND GILT, BY THE HAMPSTEAD BINDERY (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with inlaid crimson morocco arabesque at center tooled with gilt circles and stippling surrounded by swirling gilt vines with inlaid green morocco flowers, smooth spine tooled with similar vines and with inlaid red morocco title banner, VELLUM DOUBLURES and endleaves framed with gilt tendrils that extend two inlaid green morocco flowers onto the doublures, all edges gilt. With nearly one hundred engravings on wood, from drawings by Birket Foster. Rear doublure with small gilt stamp of a coronet surrounded by a collar containing the word "Londonderry." ◆Spine slightly and evenly darkened, a breath of rubbing to extremities, but A FINE COPY, clean, fresh, and bright inside and out. Longfellow's earliest literary success appears here in an elegant binding from Frank Karslake's Hampstead Bindery,… Read More

4pp. ads at front dated 1 October 1847. Original boards, printed paper spine label. Joints cracked but secure, foot of spine chipped. An excellent copy, especially rare in original condition. Half morocco case.
First edition, first state. This is an excellent copy of the rare first issue of Longfellow's romance of the expulsion of the Acadians by the British during the French and Indian War. The idea for the poem came from Nathaniel Hawthorne, who had heard a story about tragic Acadian lovers. Longfellow did meticulous research on the historical setting of the poem, which paid off, literally—it earned him record royalty payments.
The earliest printed copies have Long on p. 61, line 1; "examination indicates that during the run of the first printing the reading became Lo…, due to an unknown, accidental, cause" (BAL). This is a particularly rare issue of an already rare book in original condition.
"It was not only Longfellow's first long poem, but the first long poem by an American to live beyond… Read More

London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1893. Reprinted from the Revised American edition, Including Recent Poems. 630 pp. 8vo. Original gilt-lettered red morocco, a.e.g., remnant of spine laid-in, front board and flyleaf detached, worn and rubbed. Reprinted from the Revised American edition, Including Recent Poems" 630 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Wharton to her cousin. INSCRIBED by Edith Wharton on the half title, with a short poem incorporating Gertrude's farewell to Ophelia. It reads in full: "Sweets to the sweet & luck to the fair / are applicable both, - / to the girls with the ondule hair, / from her loving cousin / Edith Wharton / July 3rd 1894" Longfellow was an early admirer of Wharton; he arranged to have one of her adolescent poems published in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

New York: The American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union, Inc.,, 1938. Inscribed by Stanislavsky, a superb theatrical association copy First edition. Inscribed in pencil on the front free endpaper, "For Carnovsky with admiration for his genius, Stanislavsky". Actor Morris Carnovsky (1897-1992) was one of the charter members of the highly influential Group Theatre founded to develop an "American acting technique" from Stanislavsky's teachings. Such inscriptions are rare, and this in the last year of his life. Ex-Group Theatre's library, press mark inked to spine, subsequently library of Stella Adler and Harold Clurman and by descent. A most suitable title for Stanislavsky to present to an aspiring acolyte, the Handbook was intended "as a guide to the understanding of the extraordinarily wide range of expanding endeavour in all the arts of the theatre", encompassing plays, operas, ballets and films, and set out in the form of an extensive bibliographical listing under those… Read More

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. First. hardcover. Small 8vo, full black leather, elaborately gilt design including hearts, with dentelles & silk end-leaves by Zahnsdorf. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. First Edition.<br/><br/> First printing. Inscribed on the front leaf " Hon, Miss Annesley with the compliments of the author 1858". A beautiful example of a classic of American literature.<br/><br/>

Two volumes. 19th-century half brown morocco and marbled boards, nicely rebacked in matching morocco. Light wear and foxing. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy inscribed by Longfellow: "Henry R. Cleveland with the affectionate regards of the author" and with Cleveland's signature and bookplate. Soon after he joined the Harvard faculty in 1836, Longfellow, Henry Cleveland, C. C. Felton, Charles Sumner, George Hillard formed an informal intellectual society they later called the "Five of Clubs." No other presentation copy of Hyperion appears in the auction records of the past thirty years. Although Longfellow was later generous with presentation copies for his increasingly wide circle of friends and admirers, in his early years he reserved presentation copies for his family and closest friends. As a result they are rare in the market.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. First issue with "treacherous" for "ruddy" on page 124, line 3, and twelve pages of adverts at rear dated October, 1858. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth binding decorated in blind with titles in gilt on spine. A presentation copy, inscribed but not signed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and dated in the year of publication on the verso of the front free end paper, "From the Author / 1858." Very Good, with light rubbing to cloth, light wear at spine ends, and one page signature toward rear protruding slightly. BAL 12122.

. Original black morocco album, all edges gilt, large landscape folio, rebacked with matching black spine, the top edge of the front board badly worn, though now repaired, scuffed and a little worn at the edges, white moiré silk end-papers laid to card, the margins of the cards are a bit dusty and marked, the original publication above contained within a pocket on the rear board. *I have not been able to find any biographical data on J. Stanley. He/she is recorded as having been the illustrator for BURNS The Cottar's Saturday Night : London; printed in Germany : J. Nisbet & Co., [1888.]; and as the author and illustrator of - Crowning Mercies. A textbook for every day in the month. Arranged and illustrated by J. Stanley. [1887].

Portland: Samuel Coleman, 1830. First edition, second issue, containing 288 pages and the errors in pagination on p. 278 and 288. [4], 288 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut and largely unopened. Provenance: James Greenleaf, Longfellow's brother-in-law, see below (contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper) - P. K. Foley (1903 purchase identification on slip tipped to rear pastedown). First edition, second issue, containing 288 pages and the errors in pagination on p. 278 and 288. [4], 288 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarce Early Work by Longfellow with Close Family Provenance. Longfellow had joined the faculty of his alma mater Bowdoin in late 1829 (his grandfather was a cofounder of the college, and his father a trustee). While teaching in his first year as a professor of languages, Longfellow anonymously edited three volumes to be used in French courses, all of which were published by Coleman in 1830. He wrote to Alexander Slidell Mackenzie that the present work… Read More

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition. Shaken; some page staining; only a good copy. Presentation copy; inscribed upon publication to his brother’s son (his nephew), “W.P.P. Longfellow [William Pitt Preble Longfellow] with regards of the author. Nov. 25, 1863.” This volume contains Longfellow’s most enduring poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”