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Lot 126
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
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Nov 12, 2020
4:00AM CT
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Nov 13, 2020
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Lot Description
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1892). The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
8vo. Publisher's advertisements dated November 1855. (Some spotting to a few leaves at beginning and end.) Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth gilt-lettered on spine (some light wear to spine ends, a few minor stains, spine slightly leaned); quarter red morocco slipcase. Provenance: E. A. Beatly? (early faint inscription on front flyleaf); A. H. Armour & Co. (early bookseller's label).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Longfellow's epic poem. BAL 12111. A BRIGHT COPY.
Property from the Collection of John S. Leipsic