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HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH]. Outre-Mer: or, a Pilgrimage to the Old World. By an American. London: Bentley 1835. 2 vols., 8vo, original tan paper over green cloth, olive green cloth spines, printed paper spine labels, wear at ends of spines and along edges (showing the green cloth beneath the tan paper), inner hinges in vol. 1 tightened, rear inner hinge in vol. 2 broken, blue half morocco slipcase. First English Edition of Longfellow's first novel and the first authorized Longfellow book outside America, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S COPY with his signature ("Nath. Hawthorne") on the inside front cover of each volume. BAL 12060. "Obviously hoping for favorable comment, Hawthorne sent a first copy of [ Twice-Told Tales , 1837] to another former [Bowdoin] classmate, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...Hawthorne had admired his Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea , a volume of travel sketches published two years before. The two men had not seen each other since their final days at Bowdoin, twelve years before...His letter [presenting Twice-Told Tales ] was characteristically deferential:'...The present volume contains such articles as seemed best worth offering to the public a second time; and I should flatter myself that they would repay you some part of the pleasure which I have derived from your Outre-Mer '" (James R. Mellow, Nathanial Hawthorne in His Times , Boston, 1980, pp. 78-89). Provenance : Stephen H. Wakeman, bookplate in each volume, provenance note apparently in his hand (sale, AAA, 29 April 1924, lot 638) - Anonymous owner (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 24 November 1980, lot 20A). (2)