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The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Modern Library #56.2)
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1952]. Hardcover. A Modern Library collection of Henry Wadsworth Longfellows's best-loved poetry (including "Evangeline," "The Song of Hiawatha," "Tales of a Wayside Inn," "The Courtship of Miles Standish" and many others). Includes a handful of black & white engraved illustrations scattered through the text. Book wrapped in jacket with Valenti Angelo illustration of a snowy New England scene to front panel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 362 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1952 (no publication date appears in book). ML #56.2. --- A sound copy: tightly-bound, unmarked and bright though with prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Price-clipped dust jacket with a little chipping at spine ends and rubbing to extremities, else bright, intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xi, 732, (8, ads) pages .
Synopsis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882) was an American poet whose works include Paul Revere's Ride , The Song of Hiawatha , and Evangeline. Most of his works were lyrical poems which often utilized mythology and legend.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87197
- Title
- The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Modern Library #56.2)
- Author
- LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1952]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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