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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. THE HANGING OF THE CRANE. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1907.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: A slim hardcover book bound in green pictorial cloth. Very good condition. The spine is a bit darkened and is lightly stained near the bottom. The gutter of the front endpaper is tanned. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Longfellow's poem illustrated with color plates.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Hanging of The Crane. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1907.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Unnumbered pp.; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, t.e.g., frontis; a.e. lt tanned. Cover: med green, lovely paster front, gilt titles spine; lt shelfwear, paster lt rubbed. Beautiful b/w and captioned tissue-guarded color illustrations. An edition celebrating the centennial of the birth of Longfellow.
Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Blue boards with gilt stamped design on front cover with silhouette of Longfellow, gold spine with white title block and goldish lettering; duotone frontispiece, bw illustrated title page, unpaginated, 13 plates with tissue guards. "Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Designs by Florence W. Swan." "This edition is limited to one thousand numbered copies. This is number 525." VG (spine is in need of repair as it has pieces missing and a small chunk out of the top, light shelfwear to boards. Pages are very clean and clear.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Hanging of the Crane. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1907.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tall octavo, unpaginated (about 60pp.), illustrated by Florence W. Swan (with decorations by Arthur I. Keller). Front free endpaper appears to have been excised, and there are a few nicks to the corners, else it's a crisp, clean, square copy. This is copy number 395 of 1000 limited copies. There is a gift inscription on the limitation page, dated in the year of publication. An uncommon book, and, depite its notable defects, a tight, straightforward example, overall very good.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.89 + shipping
Description: The Hanging of the Crane by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Centennial Edition published by Houghton Mifflin in 1907. Beautifully illustrated throughout.Clean pages, tight binding, cloth boards clean, dust jacket with tatter to edges protected by mylar, original dust jacket and mylar protector over cloth boards Clean pages, tight binding, clot original dust jacket and mylar p
Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Hanging of the Crane. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1907.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition with these illustrations. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. Designs by Florence W. Swan. Elaborately decorated pictorial boards. Bookplate front pastedown, contemporary gift inscription front fly, else fine in fine original unprinted glassine dustwrapper, and near fine printed cardboard box, with a tear along one lip.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. THE HANGING OF THE CRANE. Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1907.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: THE HANGING OF THE CRANE by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Centennial Edition published on the 100th anniversary of this poet's birth. This is number 103 of a limited edition of 1,000. Top edge gilt. Illustrations protected by tissue.The illustrations in the first 250 copies were colored by hand. The red dust jacket has an impressed gilt title, the cream boards are fresh and clean with very light wear at the bottom. Spine is tight.
Seller: Cedar Tree Antiques, Upland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Off-white cloth over boards with gilt illustration; Top edges gilt; Unpaginated, approx. 90 pp.; 13 color plates tipped in with tissue overlays; Numerous bw text illustrations. The Centennial Edition of this book, published to coincide with the centennial of Longfellow's birth; Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller; Decorations by Florence W. Swan; Hand-numbered, no. 1 of 1,000 copies in this edition; Original lithograph titled "Three Wishes" on ffep, appears unrelated to the book.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$415.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition #115/250 copies illustrated with hand colored plates, no pagination, bound in white vellum paper over boards stamped in gilt and black with a silhouette framed in gilt, boards and spine ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, tissue guards, illustrations by Arthur I. Keller, Designs by Florence W. Swan, in original red cloth dust jacket lettered in gilt. A beautiful clean bright copy
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.