LONGFELLOW, HENRY The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First American edition, first printing, the Blair copy. Publisher's brown gilt lettered cloth, housed in a cloth slipcase. 7 x 4 1/2 inches; 316 pp., ads dated "November 1855" inserted between the endpapers at rear. A very fine and bright copy, the front endpaper with a small loss at edge, very clean within, one small bump to corner of cloth and very lightly rubbed at corners, almost as new, the Blair copy with the green morocco Blairhame booklabel to pastedown . The very fine Blair copy of the first printing of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha . The book with the following first issue points: "In the Moon" on p. 32, line 11; "Wahonomin" for "Wahonowin" on p. 39, line 11; "Dove" for "Dived" on p. 96, line 7; "Cooed the Omemee" for "Cooed the pigeon" on p. 278, line 4 up; the "n" in "one" on p. 279, line 5 up is present (no priority in BAL); the ads dated November 1855. This copy sold Christie's 14 December 2016, . BAL 12112. C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
LONGFELLOW, HENRY The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First American edition, first printing, the Blair copy. Publisher's brown gilt lettered cloth, housed in a cloth slipcase. 7 x 4 1/2 inches; 316 pp., ads dated "November 1855" inserted between the endpapers at rear. A very fine and bright copy, the front endpaper with a small loss at edge, very clean within, one small bump to corner of cloth and very lightly rubbed at corners, almost as new, the Blair copy with the green morocco Blairhame booklabel to pastedown . The very fine Blair copy of the first printing of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha . The book with the following first issue points: "In the Moon" on p. 32, line 11; "Wahonomin" for "Wahonowin" on p. 39, line 11; "Dove" for "Dived" on p. 96, line 7; "Cooed the Omemee" for "Cooed the pigeon" on p. 278, line 4 up; the "n" in "one" on p. 279, line 5 up is present (no priority in BAL); the ads dated November 1855. This copy sold Christie's 14 December 2016, . BAL 12112. C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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