Kavanagh, A Tale
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Original purple cloth. Binding rubbed with some wear, some browning of text, especially of the advertisements and adjoining leav
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1849. First edition, first printing, mixed states of points listed by BAL. Of those noted by BAL the points following page 177 are in the altered stated. Publisher's advertisements dated May 1, 1949 at front. 188pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original purple cloth. Binding rubbed with some wear, some browning of text, especially of the advertisements and adjoining leaves, remains of signature on pastedown else a very good copy. First edition, first printing, mixed states of points listed by BAL. Of those noted by BAL the points following page 177 are in the altered stated. Publisher's advertisements dated May 1, 1949 at front. 188pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Mr. Kavanaugh, the local minister and his would-be-novelist friend, the schoolmaster Mr. Churchill, with their romances, aspirations, literary discussions and lives form the basis for this amusing romance and tale of a small New England town. BAL 12096; Harris Collection of American Poetry 150 (noting that it is not a poem)
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- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26830
- Title
- Kavanagh, A Tale
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's advertisements dated May 1, 1949 at front. 188pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original purple cloth. Binding rubbed with some wear, some browning of text, especially of the advertisements and adjoining leav
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing, mixed states of points listed by
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1849
- Keywords
- American | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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