LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems. John Owen, Cambridge, 1846.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Third Edition, published the same year at the first edition and very scarce. Octavo. Brown cloth over boards, gilt design on covers with blindstamped borders, gilt lettering and design on spine, all edges gilt. Very good, some faded spots of front cover, all corners bumped, timetoned pages with mild foxing.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Longfellow, Henry W.. The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems. Published By John Owen, Cambridge, 1846.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Publisher's original gold-lithographed wrappers (dated 1845). Rebacked in plain white paper. There is some minor staining to the wrappers, with some chipping to the extremities. Internally, the book is very clean. With a penciled gift inscription dated Christmas 1845 on the title-page. According to BAL, the book was published just a day or two before Christmas. BAL 12083.
Seller: Clarel Rare Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Belfry of Bruges and other poems. John Owen,, 1846.
Price: US$820.46 + shipping
Description: Cambridge, John Owen, 1846, Prima edizione della raccolta, ove compaiono per la prima volta i celebri versi di The Arrow and the Song. Il contratto fu siglato nel novembre del 1845; la stampa di 1000 copie uscì a Natale con 1846 al fronte e 1845 in copertina. Le decorazioni di piatto e verso sono di Ephraim Bouvè (attivo in Boston, cfr. Peters, America on Stone, pp. 102-103). Barbe. Cfr. BAL, 12083; Wilson, I, 222; Livingston, 41-43. in 16°, legatura editoriale in cartone rigido color crema litografato, con la data 1845, pp. viii 151 (3). legatura editoriale in cartone rigido color crema litografato, con la data 1845,
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Pontremoli SRL, Milano, MI, Italy
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems. John Owen, Cambridge, 1846.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Bound by Stikeman and Co. in three quarter green morocco with marbled endpapers, raised bands, and top edge gilt. Very good plus with mild wear to the extremities and along the front hinge. With a laid in Autograph Note Initialed by Longfellow to his publisher James T. Fields, dated 1875: "My Dear Fields, I cannot do it. I had rather fight the battle of Bunker's Hill. You must manage the matter for me. If Mr. Alden will give the sum you mention, he shall have the poem. Your Centennial friend, H.W.S." The note, evidently removed a little unevenly from a small notebook, is very good with some clean creases from folding, a short and neat tear through the top of a single letter, and a little residue on the recto. Includes two well-known Longfellow compositions: "The Arrow and the Song" ("I shot an arrow in the air.") and "Retribution" ("Though the mills of God grind slowly"). *BAL* 12083.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.