1858 1st/1st Courtship of Miles Standish by Wadsworth Longfellow w/ Slipcase

1858 1^st/1^st Courtship of Miles Standish by Wadsworth Longfellow w/ Slipcase

“The Courtship of Miles Standish” is a narrative poem by the famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the early days of Plymouth Colony established by the Pilgrims who came over to America on the Mayflower. BAL notes this as “of one of famed author’s most important books.”

Item number: #28509

Price: $599

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth

The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First Edition. First Printing.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • iv, [5]-215, [1], 11, [1]
• References: BAL 12122
• Edition Notes:
  • 119, last line: “Cry of pain on crags Caucasian,”
  • 124, line 3: “The revel of the treacherous wine,”
  • 12 pages of ads at back dated October
• Provenance:
  • Bookplate – Walter L. Darling
  • Handwritten – Louisa Mason, 1858
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Brown cloth
  • Includes leather and hardcover slipcase
• Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 12.5cm)

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