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The Song of Hiawatha
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Houghton and Mifflin. Near Fine. 1901. First Edition : Limited. Hardcover. Royal octovo in original vellum (leather) covers, xviii 242 pages. Tight binding, clean and unfoxed pages, none torn or marked, the covers have very faint smudging, else VG+++ to NFINE, a beauty. First Remington Edition: Limited edition number 79 of 250 copies printed. Contains all 22 photogravures by Frederic Remington, all excellent with tissue guards. Portrait frontis in black and red. Additionally there are many small black and white drawings in the margins of pages. Considered the finest edition of Longfellow's rendition of the tale of Hiawatha, taken from(? ) and originally painted(petro glyph) on shore of Agawa rock in Canada, telling of an epic voyage across a storm tossed Lake Superior. Book cover designed by Sarah w Whitman, "Whitman is considered one of the most prominent book-cover designers of her day, often ranked with Margaret Neilson Armstrong and Alice Cordelia Morse. "-wikipedia; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242pp pages .
Synopsis
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mossback Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28353
- Title
- The Song of Hiawatha
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition : Limited
- Publisher
- Houghton and Mifflin
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- Longfellow Classic; Hiawatha; Haiwatha; Hyatha; Objibwa Legend;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated;
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About the Seller
Mossback Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About Mossback Books
Sales through the internet and at book shows in the midwest.
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- First Edition
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- Vellum
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