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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In the publisher's original red muslin with paper spine label. There's some fading to the cloth, most pronounced on the spine and at the edges, and some light chipping to the spine tips and to the edges of the paper label, just touching the final "I" in "ITALIANI." Some bibliographies call for a half-title which is not present here, but there is no sign of an excision or any other sophistication, suggesting that this copy is complete as originally bound. The Frederick W. Skiff/Estelle Doheny Copy, with their bookplates on the front pastedown. A very good copy [and uncommon thus] of this early Italian reader, preparerd while Longfellow was still a Professor of Languages at Bowdoin College in Maine. BAL 12049.
Seller: Clarel Rare Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$281.25 + shipping
Description: First edition of Longfellow's edition of Italian short stories, designed as a text book for students of the language, published while he was a professor of modern languages and literature at Bowdoin; slim 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 168; orig. red muslin quite faded and spotted and with spine largely perished, light occasional foxing, binding firm. In 1830 Longfellow published a translation of Lhomond's French grammar, his first book, and Manuel de Proverbes Dramatiques; in 1831 he translated to the French an edition of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; this was followed in 1832 by an Italian grammar, and in the same year this collection of Italian short stories. At the age of twenty two, having returned from a scholar's sojourn in Europe, he received the appointment of professor of modern languages at Bowdoin, "and probably, with the exception of Mr. George Ticknor, was the most accomplished scholar in this country of the languages and literatures of modern Europe" (Appleton's CAB). BAL 12049 (and conforming to all the points indicated as present in only some copies); Chamberlain, p. 14.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of these Italian Short Stories. BAL 12049 with typos on pages 80 and 92 not corrected. Octavo. Original cloth over boards, paper title lable at spine. Very good, cloth discolored, spine ends bumped with bottom slightly chipped, paper plate darkened to nearly illegible, spotting at rear cover, bookplate at front free end paper, worn whole at from front pastedown to title page, pages wrinkled, pages heavily agetoned and foxed.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. SAGGI DE NOVELLIEIRI ITALIANI D'OGNI SECOLO. , 1832.
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Description: LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. SAGGI DE NOVELLIEIRI ITALIANI D'OGNI SECOLO. First edition. Boston: Presso Gray E Bowen, 1832. 8vo., terra-cotta cloth; paper spine label. A good copy only, in that the front hinge is externally cracked and chipping, spine ends are quite worn and end papers foxed; internally clean and bright with only light foxing. (BAL 12049).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 168pp. 1 vols. 12mo. WITH BOWDOIN 1832 PROVENANCE. Dr. Joseph Cullen Ayer (1811-1846) was a graduate of Bowdoin who became a Doctor. BAL 12049 Original cloth, with original paper spine label, soem wear at spine ends. Signed J. C. Ayre 1832 on ffep and with his stamp. J. Cullen Ayer below
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.