[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Longfellow's classic THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, 1858

[Charles Agvent]

LONGFELLOW,  Henry  Wadsworth.
          STANDISH,  AND  OTHER POEMS. Boston: Ticknor &  Fields  1858.
          First Edition.    First    issue  with    October   ads   and
          "treacherous"  for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. BAL  12122.
          Original  brown  cloth  with  brown endpapers.  Ad  leaf  not
          present  in  this copy but stub indicates it once was.  Small
          old Pennsylvania  bookseller's  label   on  pastedown  partly
          obliterated. Mild rubbing to covers. About Fine       $450.00

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