Tales Of a Wayside Inn

Tales of a Wayside Inn 1864 1st edition Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Some fading to cloth but a clean, unworn Very Good or better copy. First Printing in original green cloth. BAL 12136: Catalog A. Engraved title page. Contains "The Children's Hour" as well as the poet's famous account of Paul Revere's ride and the line Revere never uttered: "One, if by… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition, later state (with this volume priced in the ads at rear). Original pebbled green cloth with gilt stamped spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece engraving with tissue-guard of Old Bull playing violin in The Wayside Inn. LONGFELLOW'S INKED INSCRIPTION signed "Yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow" on tipped-in paper slip. Neat contemporary inscription dated 1863.… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's purple cloth decorated in blind. Teg. Very good. 233 pages. 8vo, 18.5 x 12 cm. First printing, first issue in original purple cloth with 21 pages of adverts at rear dated November 1863. BLANCK 12136, noting the printing of the publisher's catalog with the distinguishing feature on page… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 1st. Hardcover. The text is a little shaken and the binding is a little spotted but overall a very good copy. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with covers stamped in blind and titling on spine stamped in gilt. Twenty-one pages of publisher's ads bound in the rear dated November with Tales listed… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 1863. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE "B" HARDCOVER, GREEN CLOTH BINDING, GILT TO TOP EDGE, with pebbled pattern and in-blind borders; gold lettering, chocolate-colored endpapers, frontispiece with tissue overlay; 225 pages, with 22 pages of publisher's advertising at end dated November, 1863. Page 11 of publisher's advertising indicates the book "Tales of Wayside Inn and Other… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 225 pages. Notes; Referenced by BAL 12136. Subjects; English poetry — United States — Works. Poetry —… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First American Edition; first printing; second issue publisher’s catalogue. Original cloth; some wear; hinges weak; a good copy with a nineteenth-century photo of the Inn mounted onto the front free endpaper. A three page holograph letter, signed by Longfellow has been tipped in between the text and the advertisements: “Cambridge, Mass. 1863...I am much… Read more about this item

A periodical version of the Riverside Literature Series. While the cover shows the grime of its 132 years, it remains intact, with clean, tight and intact pages as well. This is the first of three parts of the Tales. The others would be numbers 34 and 35 in the sequence. While the cover is dated February 1888, there is a… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First edition. Cloth. Good. Second issue. 12mo, Top edge gilt. 225 pp. followed by publisher's catalog. Halftitle page illustration. Covers handled, stained, with some wear at extremities including chipping at head of spine, spine faded; front hinge starting; page edges toned, with a few specks to fore-edge, light foxing to front and rear… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864. 1st UK. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, green boards with gilt ruling, design and spine titling bright; text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked (frontispiece portrait a little loose); notes on separate sheet inserted at back.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). In his lifetime Longfellow was recognized as… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Fair/None. Visitor's Edition." Circa 1920. Green cloth little rubbed, few old stains. Rubber stamped "Purchased at Longfellow's Wayside Inn South Sudbury, Mass" on front free endpaper. Upper inner corners of pages in spine have small light stain, else interior good.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, [i-viii], [1]-225 pages with 21 page publisher's catalog. In Good minus condition. Bound in faded purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Boards show sunning to spine, light rubbing to corners, bending and fraying to spine edges, spine edges chipped off, and large tears to spine. Textblock has… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. Contemporary gift inscription; small abrasion to rear board; spine faded slightly and with a touch of wear at ends.. 8vo, 225pp + 22pp publisher's catalogue in rear, dated November 1863; brown cloth, t.e.g. Second state of advertisments in rear. Includes Longfellow's celebrated poem "Paul Revere's Ride" ("Listen, my children, and you… Read more about this item

The Macmillan company, 0001-01-01 Cover Edge Wear, Owner Marking. See our Terms of Sale for a detailed description of condition notes.. Paperback. Used - Good.

NY: H. M. Caldwell Co, 1906. 16mo; cloth backed boards with pictorial label paste on, hardcover; 239 pages; boards are edgeworn else very good.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863 [First American edition, presumably not first state.] Hard cover, 16 mo., in the original brown pebbled cloth with blind stamped border with a small rosette to each corner, title in gilt to spine (very faded,) coated brown endpapers, lacking front fly, with vignette title page, top edge gilt, 225 pp. plus 22 pp publisher's… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, second state. Octavo. 225, 22 (ads) pp. Brown cloth gilt. Gilt title on spine worn. Top edges gilt. Contemporary owner's name, chipping on the edges of a few pages from being roughly opened, spine ends a little worn, about very good. Contains Longfellow's most enduring poem, "The Midnight… Read more about this item

Southborough, Mass: Yankee Colour Corporation, 1985. This elegant book has been published exclusively for Longfellow's Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts. An early sketch of the Inn by A.F. Fellows will be found opposite the copyright page. Blue cloth boards. Gilt print to front board and spine. An immaculate book.... A very nice copy....bright and handsome!. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. Fine.… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and FIelds, 1863. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, [i-viii], [1]-225 pages with 21 page publisher's catalog. In Good condition. Bound in heavily faded purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Boards show sunning to spine, light rubbing and bumping to corners, bending and fraying to spine edges, and fading to covers. Textblock has mild age toning,… Read more about this item