[Rarebooks] FS: Longfellow's First Book, 1839

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Sun Jan 29 17:12:46 EST 2006


LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth VOICES OF THE NIGHT
John Owen Cambridge 1839 First Edition.  Bound in modern 3/4 chocolate brown 
morocco 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 of poems, 
preceded by some translations and a book of sketches.  Occasional soiling to 
text.  Near Fine copy in an attractive binding.  $850.00
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