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