Evangeline: a Tale of Acadie
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Very Good. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Stated Fifteenth Edition. From the library of journalist and language expert William Safire.
Octavo; 159 pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine.Yellow endpapers. Cover frayed on edges and rubbed. Spine slightly rolled. Manuscript note on on front free endpaper states: "Henry Brown / Key West / Dec 5 1863 / U.S.S. Powhatan West India Squadron." Pages toned from age with some markings in pencil in margins. Front and rear hinges starting, but binding still feels secure.
Octavo; 159 pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine.Yellow endpapers. Cover frayed on edges and rubbed. Spine slightly rolled. Manuscript note on on front free endpaper states: "Henry Brown / Key West / Dec 5 1863 / U.S.S. Powhatan West India Squadron." Pages toned from age with some markings in pencil in margins. Front and rear hinges starting, but binding still feels secure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5638
- Title
- Evangeline: a Tale of Acadie
- Author
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1862
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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- Rolled
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