LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. Kavanagh - A Tale. John Walker Liverpool (and David Bogue et al London Edinburgh No Date (1849), Dublin), 1849.

Price: US$96.06 + shipping

Description: The correct 1849 1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in publishers' original decoratively blind embossed red cloth, gilt lettering to front cover, 137pp, advert leaf at front (for 'Hyperion' & 'Poems Lyrical & Dramatic') CONDITION: VERY GOOD- (lacks cloth spine, covers very slightly edge-rubbed, rear loose, name on fly-leaf> The contents are slightly tanned but still very clean and tight with barely any of the usual foxing) ] ._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Kavanagh, a tale. John Walker; London: David Bogue [et al.], Liverpool, 1849.

Price: US$281.25 + shipping

Description: First edition printed in Britain, sm. 8vo, pp. 137, [1]; orig. green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine darkened and a little askew, small cracks at spine extremities, else very good. BAL 12851. The London edition published by Slater may have been available earlier (BAL 12096) but was advertised an "an importation . ready for sale June 4." The Liverpool edition was advertised as "nearly ready" on June 1. With the bookplate of Harrison Hayford.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.