LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1855. 8vo, original chocolate brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, a trifle rubbed at edges, half morocco folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST STATE with missing "n" on p. 279, line 5 up, 12-page publisher's catalogue dated November 1855 at end. BAL 12112; Grolier American 66: "...it both sentimentalized and dignified the American public's opinion of the Indian." A fine, bright, crisp copy of Longfellow's first best-seller; the American edition was published days after the English. Early ownership inscription of Ida A.C. Williams of Glen Cove, Long Island, on front free endpaper.
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1855. 8vo, original chocolate brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, a trifle rubbed at edges, half morocco folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST STATE with missing "n" on p. 279, line 5 up, 12-page publisher's catalogue dated November 1855 at end. BAL 12112; Grolier American 66: "...it both sentimentalized and dignified the American public's opinion of the Indian." A fine, bright, crisp copy of Longfellow's first best-seller; the American edition was published days after the English. Early ownership inscription of Ida A.C. Williams of Glen Cove, Long Island, on front free endpaper.
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