London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown and mustard boards. Small bookplate of Arthur Sherwell on pastedown. Uncommon early book on Whitman.
London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown and mustard boards. Uncommon early book on Whitman.
(Avon, CT): Limited Editions Club, 1974. Sigmund Abeles. Print. An original etching (@10" x 12") by Sigmund Abeles, SIGNED by him, of the portrait of Maggie that was reproduced for the frontispiece of the Limited Editions Club edition of the Stephen Crane novel, MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS. Included.....
Menasha, WI: Limited Editions Club, 1942. John Steuart Curry. hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in full butternut muslin with a gold-stamped reddish brown leather spine label, 320 pages. Introduction and notes by Carl Van Doren; designed by Will Ransom. Illustrated with reproductions of watercolors by John Steuart Curry. Of.....
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Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1889/1891. Hardcover. Eleven octavo (5" x 7-7/8") volumes, illustrated with frontispieces and bound in 1/2 brown polished calf leather and marbled boards with matching corners and endpapers and elegantly gilt-decorated and lettered spines. Consists of six volumes of the POETICAL WORKS, two volumes of.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. First British Edition. Hardcover. According to BAL 12164, "Apparently published simultaneously in Boston and London." Small octavo (4" x 6-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-ruled and lettered green cloth with black stamping. State 1. A Presentation Copy from Longfellow INSCRIBED in the poet's distinct hand.....
Cambridge: 29 November 1864. Letter. Interesting 1-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on both sides of a 7-3/4" x 6" sheet of paper, folded once, to Miss Smith. In full: "I return with many thanks the documents you were kind enough to send me - a charming poem and two very clever.....
Cambridge: 7 November 1869. Letter. A 3-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Mrs. Lawrence" on his stay in Florence. In part: "Friday is certainly an unlucky day; for on Friday I called at your hotel and was so unfortunate.....
Cambridge: 25 April 1880. Letter. A 2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on two sides of an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to an unidentified recipient inviting him to dine at his home and telling him which "horse-car" would be best to take from Boston. SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow.".....
Cambridge: 8 October 1872. Letter. A 2-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with his initials on three sides of a 7-3/4" x 4-7/8" sheet of paper, folded once, to his publisher James Fields. In full: "I want you and Mrs. Fields, with all your guests, to come to supper after W. MacDonald's.....
Cambridge: 1867. Letter. Superb 4-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" on a 9" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Charlie," a young boy as obvious by the content. In full: "I have been so long in answering your letter, that no doubt you begin to.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth with brown endpapers. First Printing with October ads and "treacherous" for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. BAL 12122. Ad leaf not present in this copy but stub indicates it once was.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth with brown endpapers. BAL 12122. First Printing with the October catalogue and "treacherous" for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. One of the copies with the inserted ad for Ticknor & Field's edition of the Waverley Novels at.....
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (6-1/2" x 8-3/4") bound in full red crushed levant leather with gilt fillet borders and decorative spine and turn-ins with watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. BAL 12166: First Issue of page 37. SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1875.....
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1877. Sir John Gilbert. First Edition. Hardcover. The Author's Edition: quarto (6-3/8" x 8-3/4") bound in 3/4 brown morocco leather and green boards with gilt rules, five raised bands, and a gilt-lettered and decorated spine, top edge gilt; iv, 644 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece.....
Boston: Warren, n.d. Photograph. A fine 4-1/4" x 6-1/2" cabinet card photograph of a seated elderly Longfellow SIGNED on the verso "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1875 by the poet.
Portland [ME]: Lamson, n.d. Photograph. A fine 4-1/8" x 6-3/8" cabinet card photograph of a white-bearded Longfellow INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso "Mme Carmen Pisani di [?]/with compliments and regards of/Henry W. Longfellow/Jan. 10, 1879."
Boston: Warren, n.d. Photograph. A fine 2-7/16" x 4-1/4" carte-de-visite photograph of a standing full-bearded Longfellow SIGNED on the verso "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1864 by the poet.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing in original green cloth. BAL 12136: Catalog A. Engraved title page. Contains "The Children's Hour" as well as the poet's famous account of Paul Revere's ride and the line Revere never uttered: "One, if by land, and two, if by.....
Cambridge: John Owen, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in modern 3/4 chocolate brown morocco leather with gilt-ruled spine retaining the half title but not the original endpapers. BAL 12065. Second state with altered textual readings of pages (v), 18, and 78 but original reading of page 23. Longfellow's first book.....
London: John Murray, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Three octavo (5-3/4" x 9") volumes in publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth. Illustrated with 99 plates. A Presentation Copy from Longfellow INSCRIBED TO HIS SON in the poet's distinct hand on the first blank: "Ernest W. Longfellow/with his father's love/and good wishes./June 1, 1876.".....
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1881. Document. Original, large engraved portrait of Longfellow surrounded by vignette scenes from his best-loved poems (Hiawatha, Blacksmith, Hesperus, Revere, etc.), with plenty of room for all as the engraving measures @ 21" x 30" and is on its original 25-1/4" x 34" stretcher set in a......
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1876. Early Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-lettered brick cloth. First published in 1870, this copy has pasted to the first blank an early oval-shaped photograph of the poet on a 2-1/4" x 3-3/4" paper mount that is SIGNED "J. R. Lowell/13th June 1861." Lowell is.....
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co./James R. Osgood and Company, 1870 and 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in matching publisher's green cloth. BAL 13136: First Printing/BAL 13152: First Issue. Lowell's reflections on Witchcraft, Shakepeare, Dante, Keats, Wordsworth, and more.
Manuscript. On a 3-1/2" x 6" sheet of paper Lowell has written out his poem “A[n] Epigram on Certain Conservatives,” and SIGNED it below with his initials and a closing: "So, ending with a piece of/nonsense for a stopgap/I remain yours as always/J.R.L." On the verso is the first stanza.....
