REMINISCENCES OF WALT WHITMAN WITH EXTRACTS FROM HIS LETTERS AND REMARKS ON HIS WRITINGS
London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown and mustard boards. Uncommon early book on Whitman.
London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown and mustard boards. Uncommon early book on Whitman.
New York: B. W. Dodge & Co., 1909. First Edition. hardcover. Livingston 328. Pirated Edition, preceding the first edition of this collection of stories. This is one of the last copies to be bound with the front cover lettered in red rather than gold.
New York: The Century Co., 1895. First American Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. Illustrated with plates. The same contents as the prior English edition but with a number of differences in the text. This green cloth copy with the elephant in the center matching the first JUNGLE BOOK, though this.....
New York: Rand McNally & Company, (1937). Paul Strayer. Reprint. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth. Illustrated with 5 full-page color plates and black-and-white text illustrations by Paul Strayer.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. Literary Ephemera. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's red cloth with gilt elephant on front cover and small swastika symbol. Laid in is a small promotional folded leaflet from the publisher advertising this book as well as books by Edith Wharton, H. G. Wells, and others.....
Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Small (3-1/2" x 6") volume bound in full dark blue morocco leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de.....
[Verona]: Limited Editions Club, 1936. hardcover. Small quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in full, natural decorated linen stamped in brown and gold; 320 pages. A selection from the revised 1846 edition of Landor's series of imaginary conversations between notable figures in history, including Dante and Beatrice, Henry VIII and Anne.....
[Verona]: Limited Editions Club, 1936. hardcover. Small quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in full, natural decorated linen stamped in brown and gold; 320 pages. A selection from the revised 1846 edition of Landor's series of imaginary conversations between notable figures in history, including Dante and Beatrice, Henry VIII and Anne.....
[Verona]: Limited Editions Club, 1936. hardcover. Small quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in full, natural decorated linen stamped in brown and gold; 320 pages. A selection from the revised 1846 edition of Landor's series of imaginary conversations between notable figures in history, including Dante and Beatrice, Henry VIII and Anne.....
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: 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.....
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 & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's blue cloth with printed paper spine label (5" x 8"). BAL 13198: "Reportedly but 75 copies were done in this untrimmed format but BAL has been unable to substantiate the statement." Essays include “The Election in November,” “The.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-decorated green cloth (5" x 7"), text edges stained red; 92 pages. BAL 13154. The three poems are "Ode Read at Concord, April 19th, 1875," "Under the Old Elm," and "An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876."
London: William Pickering, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Two 4-1/4" x 6-7/8" volumes in later half mottled calf and marbled boards with matching calf corners, gilt-decorated spines with gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine labels, top edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Herrick. James Russell Lowell's copy with his ownership SIGNATURE.....