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Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin, 1879, 1879.

Price: US$159.50 + shipping

Description: Hard Cover. Very Good. Two Volumes. Full leather with four raised bands. Volume one is 1879. Volume II is 1882. Volume I has hing torn at second end paper. Volume II hinges are fine. Gilt is bright. 12"" x 9"" gilt all edges. Interior pages are fine with no foxing. Illustrated. The Riverside Press. "

Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (3 Volume Set). Houghton Mifflin and Company/ Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1879.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Three volume set, full leather wraps, marbled endpapers with doublures. Collection copyright in Volume 1 lists 1879, volumes 2 & 3 list 1892-1893. Overall condition Very Good-; Leather has edge scraping, small edge pieces missing at tops and bottoms of spines. former owners' name inscriptions are the only interior marks. First volume front cover leather somewhat "rolled". All three volumes profusely illustrated including some very nice accents; frontispieces are steel plate engravings, all others are woodcuts. Each volume has a list of illustrations and attributions to the artists/ engravers. Protective slips are present for the steel plate engravings, although they have some edge nicks and some tears. Longfellow was very much considered to be the Dean of American Poetry in his time, his popularity coming from having captured the zeitgeist of the 2nd half of the 19th century in America.

Seller: Trouve Books, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated. 2 volumes. Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, Boston / Cambridge, 1879.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Two volumes Volume 1 published in 1879 and volume 2 published in 1882. Mildly ex-library, with no exterior library markings. Minor ink-stamps to interior. Pagination runs continuously through both volumes, with 16 pages of prefatory material to each volume and 928 total pages of text. Volumes are profusely illustrated. Volume 1 was printed in 1879, while volume 2 was printed in 1882. Very nicely and uniformly bound in 1/2 red leather, with 5 faux raised bands to spines, and gilt lettering, decorations, and rule to spines. Additional gilt to leather on boards. Marbled endpapers. Leather is generally very nice, with several small worn area to extremities. Just a touch of soiling to edges of pages. Bindings are sound, with reinforced hinges. There is a crease to the length of the front free endpapers of both volumes, which makes them tender and perhaps prone to becoming detached. Five early pages admit to a kind of yellow stain, which does effect illustrations and text, while an additional approximately 40 pages admit to a similar but faint yellow stain to upper margins. Minor red spotting to 2 printer's blanks. Tiny, closed and barely discernible tears to extremities of just a few pages. None of this wear is terribly offensive. This set would make a lovely addition to any library

Seller: Henry Stachyra, Bookseller, Stillwater, MN, U.S.A.