B.B. Russell, Boston 1882 (University Press, John B. Wilson, Cambridge) Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In the original gilt-blocked morocco-backed buckram boards First Edition. Illustrated with engravings and a frontis piece of Longfellow, eleven illustrations, some from photographs, facsimile of Longfellow's writing. Stamped in gilt with title and bail of hay, decorative outlines in black; title, moth and quill on spine in gilt. 355pp including multiple appendices. Slight wear to head and tail pieces, corners bumped. Binding is solid and square, text block clean and free from markings. First free leaf shows prior ownership in neat pencil;Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bibliography. Francis H. Underwood was a prominent abolitionist and a founder of the Atlantic Monthly. In addition to this biography of Longfellow he penned similar works on James Russell Lowell and John Greenleaf Whittier; his best known work was Quabbin: The Story of a Small Town (1893). His final decade was spent as a US consul to Scotland. BC4-5. Seller Inventory # 2006-047. Listed on ABEbooks for $81.
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, MA, 1902. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Original publisher's red cloth binding. 5" x 7 1/2." 336 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, complete. Two additional pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Appendix and index located in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Very slight rubbing at tail of spine. A Fine copy. A biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Names of two prior owners on front paste-down and opposite free leaf; Seller Inventory # 2006-050 $36 on ABE, follow the link for photos.
The Divine Tragedy, Henry Wadworth Longfellow, James R. Osgood and Co., Boston, 1871. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in very good condition. 8vo, pages: iv,[ii],313. Brown, or terra cotta pebbled cloth, beveled edges, spine titles and decoration on front board stamped in gold, blind-stamped decoration on back board, all edges gilt, very bright, brown coated end-papers. Text block clean and bright. BC4-5. Seller Inventory # 2006-051, follow the link to ABE for the listing, photographs and to purchase for $55
Knickerbocker, New York Monthly Magazine X, 1837. Clark and Edson, New York, 1837. Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Clark and Edson, 1837. Volume X of this monthly literary and news magazine, a bound volume containing six issues from July to December 1837. Tissue guarded frontispiece is an engraving of renowned singer Henry Russell bearing the facsimile inscription Yours Truly, Henry Russell, a companion to the November 1837 review contain within. Also includes, Hawthorne's Edward Fane's Rosebud, a piece that appeared again later in 1842's Twice-Told Tales, Floral Astrology by Longfellow, along with Catherine Maria Sedgwick. Two page detailed index of contents. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering and ruling, 560 pages. Extremities rubbed, spine a little dried light light surface chipping but stabilized, secure joints/hinges, sound text block, pages tanned but generally clean occasional foxing, no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.BC4-5. Seller Inventory # 2006-053 Pictured below, follow the link to purchase on ABE, $47 a second copy is available for $37.
This one is laden with heavy hitters: Fields, Osgood & Co. Boston 1871. First Edition. 1871. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown Morocco over beveled boards, raised bands on spine. Lettering and extensive decoration in gilt and black, all edges gilt. Title is on both front and back board Beautifully marbled end papers, with turn-ins showing and intricate pattern in gilt.4 Morocco is rubbed near corners. Solid hinges, tight and square; 6 X 8 1/2 inches, 55 pages. 8vo. A book of poetry produced for holiday giving containing the poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Illustrated with engravings from artists Winslow Homer, Harry Fenn, C.C. Griswold, W.J. Hennessy, S. Eytinge Jr. Homer D. Martin, Jervis McEntee, and Alfred Fredericks. With vignettes and ornaments by John J. Harley. Engraved by A.V.S. Anthony. The first poem was written by Whittier especially for this edition. Text block shows some foxing, particularly in first 15 pages and last 5. Early owner s name, Sarah P. Witherle, Castine, in neat ink script on first blank page along with light pencil notations of prior seller BC4-5. Seller Inventory # 2007-004, follow the link to ABE for photos and to purchase for $188
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow His life His Work His Friendships, by George Lowell Austin. Lee & Shepard, Boston, 1883. Cloth. Condition: Very Good.(illustrated). First Edition. Dark brown cloth over beveled boards w/ gilt lettering,red & black design gilt portrait of HWL on front. 419 pp. are tight, bright, clean and strong; Exception, in two places a small fragment of newspaper was left inside as book marks resulting in discoloration to facing pages in shape of marker. There is a dated gift inscription in faded ink October 26th 1883 to Charles S. Rogers from his Aunt Mrs. M.J. Davison. Description: x, 7-419 (includes bibliography and index) p. Front. , illus. , plates, ports. Folded Facsimiles of Longfellow s writing (all four present and intact) BC4-5. Seller Inventory # 2007-007. $88 at the ABE link here, includes photographs
New England Tragedies, HWL, Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1868. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Tight, mildy rolled, binding, solid brown/terracotta cloth covered boards with bright gilt lettering, slightly faded, but legible gilt lettering to spine strip, fraying at tail piece of spine, gently rubbed corners, brown end papers, clean, but tanned unmarked pages throughout, 1st edition: 1868 on title and copyright, solid lozenges to pendant in TF device on spine, no battering on PP 12/71 (BC4-5). Seller Inventory # 2007-014 $88 on the ABE link, includes photographs.
Flower-De-Luce, HWL, Ticknor & Fields, 1867. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.1st Edition. Gilt along all three edges. Beveled maroon boards with some spots/stains. Head piece to gilt titled spine is frayed. Brown/Deep red endpapers. Gold gilt decorative title along spine and on front cover. The design in gilt on the front is blind-stamped on the rear board. Tight binding. Five illustrations including frontispiece adjacent to title page clean and intact. No markings save light pencil marks of prior seller. 72 pp (BC4-5). Seller Inventory # 2007-015, another one listed for $88 on ABE, follow this link for photos.
Kavanagh, HWL, W. Kent & Co, London, 1858. Condition: Good Myles Birket Foster (illustrator). First English. Bound in green cloth covered beveled boards with bright gilt title on the front board; in addition blind-stamped borders to the both front and rear boards, tight, bright and square. Spine, slightly rolled, shows a 3/4 inch slit where it meets the rear board. Gilt to spine is clean and legible. Cover shows some soiling. Foxing throughout. Page 45-56 have a tear from the top of the page just reaching the top line of print. Starting at one signature. Early owner name on first free leaf. 8vo. 136 pp. Illustrated by Birket Foster, engraved by H.N. Woods. According to Charles Calhoun's Longfellow, A Rediscovered Life, Kavanagh depicts what is probably the first lesbian relationship in American fiction. Alice Archers's passion for Cecelia Vaughan is not just a school girl crush: when the tale's male ingenu replaces her in Celcilia's affections, Alice literally wastes away in grief. (BC4-5). Seller Inventory # 2007-016, $137 on ABE, this link has photos.
Evangeline (in German, by HWL) Milwaukee, Leipzig: Dörflinger, Keil, 1879. Ein Amerikanisches Gedicht von H.W.L., in s Deutsche ubersetzt von Frank Siller. 8 vo original black morocco, blocked with a double rule in blind on covers; title ornately gilt on front cover; raised bands, spine gilt; bevelled edges; a.e.g., with gilt dentelles; marbled end-papers. Spine-ends and corners worns; spine rubbed with some hinge chipping; cover and edge gilt bright, spine dull. The marbled end papers are bright and sound; interior clean. Front board and ffl separated from binding and text block. Gift inscription in neat in dated 1879. Other German translations precede this one ut this is the first German translation published in the USA for German/American consumption. Siller was a German American, he writes in the forward of his own experiences as a young man in simialr circusmtances toe Evangeline. Printed in Milwaukee from which the forward is dated. BC4-4. Seller Inventory # 2011-022, listed on ABE for $37, photos below.
Evangeline (English) by HWL, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, IN, 1905. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red boards with decorative cover. 32 Color & b/w Illustrations; First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 132pp. Notable for the illustrations and decorative material by Howard Chandler Christy. Fraying to head and foot of spine; text block is clean and bright. Binding staring, hinges loose but all still intact. Overall a Good copy of this illustrated edition of the classic American epic BC4-4. Seller Inventory # 2011-023, listed on ABE for $37.50, photos below.
The Hanging Crane, HWL, Hardcover. James R. Osgood and Company, 1875, 1874. Condition: Very Good. A.V.S. Anthony, W.J. Linton, Mary Hallock, Thomas Moran (illustrators, 40+ illustrations). Green cloth binding, beveled edged boardsboards, front and spine stamped in black and gilt with vignette of the crane on the front, titles and decoration on spine in gilt with blind stamped decorations in black, all edges in gilt, chocolate endpapers, turn-downs and edge of boards stamped with gilt decorations, frontispiece with tissue guards. Very small tear (1/2 ) in cloth at rear hinge top. Gigt inscription in neat pencilled cript in front end matter, June 20, 1899. Minor foxing in blank free leaves following paste-downs at both ends, otherwise a clean unmarked copy. Octavo. 64pp. BC4-4. Seller Inventory # 2111-10. Listed on ABE for $91, five photos below.
Ballads and Other Poems, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Cambridge, MA: John Owen, 1842. 8vo, original 3/4 calf over ribbed black cloth, raised bands on spine. Leather cracking at hinges, which are otherwise sound; 1 leather missing from back-strip head and tail, binding tight, interior clean. First edition, mixed state. First printing hallmark, quotation mark at end of first line p. 34 present as called for by Merle Johnson s American First Editions 4th; however the second hallmark, lower case t in teacher in last line of p. 88 is not present. This state evidently not seen by BAL. Rare as of this listing date (Apr 2022) this is the only first edition available online. Shows prior owner’s name, Horatio Woodman in pencil along with an old Denison label with H.W. in ink script. First appearance in book form of The Wreck of the Hesperus, The Village Blacksmith, The Skeleton in Armour. Seller Inventory # 2204-16-BC4-4. Here’s the link to the ABE listing at $1461. You will see a lot more photos below.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, February 27, 1882. Condition: Good. Frontispiece w/tissue. 1st Edition. Torn out fffl (grey endpaper) Gilt decorated green cloth beveled boards, light soil from handling. Light chipping to head, minor fraying at tail. Binding is sound, with occasional gapping at signatures. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. 8vo. 171 pp. Seller Inventory # 2204-7-BC4-5. And the link to ABE where this is priced at $67 and you can see some photos.