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Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The cover has green cloth with gilt letters, rule lines, and floral decoration. The text block ends have gilt. 135 pages; notes. The top edge of the spine strip is a little frayed; its bottom edge and two board corners are less so. The endpapers are yellow, have light soiling, and split folds. The title page has a gift inscription and a little foxing. Scans e-mailed upon request. Standard shipping cost in the U. S. will be reduced.
Seller: Books from the Past, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
Henry.Wadsworth Longfellow. The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems. W Kent, UK, 1858.
Price: US$7.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 227 pages. pp 227 + pp 40 adverts. Advert dated Jan 1858 blind st amped green cloth gilt spine
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo 8"-9" tall.
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Description: First UK edition (hardback). 12mo (18cm by 11cm), xii, 227pp, 40pp adverts (dated October 1858). Engraved frontispiece. Original green cloth, gilt titling and design to the spine. Boards a little rubbed, ligth chafing of the spine, short ownership inscription; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems. W. Kent, London, 1858.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second state. Predates USA edition. First thus with frontispiece (Chorley Old Church Lancashire). xii + 227 pp. + 40 pp publisher's adverts dated January 1858. Hardback. Blue, blind stamped cloth with gilt decorated spine and titles. Lacks most of front free end paper, otherwise Good condition. Spine rubbed at top and bottom. Text clean and free of foxing. No dust jacket.
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Price: US$41.42 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. 2327pp. Frontis. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Spine and covers rubbd and bumped, spine torn, front hinge tender, rear hinge broken, owner's ink signature, dated January 1858, on ffep, foxed.
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: tirst edition, second issue ed. hardback near very good condition in brown cloth with a bit of wear and bumping - no dust jacket- there is a pen note on the half title page which states "with Professor Longfellows Compliments," Sept 1858 - this is not in Longfellow's hand; there is a 40 page catalog at rthe Ârear dated January 1858- Âshipping via UPS
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, 2nd issue (precedes the U.S edition). PP xii + 227 + publisher's annual catalogue. Publisher's blue decoative cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. Minor marks and wear on front and rear boards and edges with minor bumping to head and foot of spine and edges. Internally tight with minor spotting throughout contemporary inscription in ink on prelim. Good near very good copy. Small 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 227pp., dusky pink net grain cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine faded with a little wear at ends, lower cover lightly damp dappled, but a nice copy; bookplate of William, 9th Earl Waldegrave. The cloth issue, printed from the same type but after the issue in wrappers. Precedes the American edition.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small 8vo, pp viii, 135, finely bound without wrappers of adverts in near contemporary full green morocco, sides with double gilt fillet borders, spine spine, inner gilt dentelles. a fine clean copy, FIRST LONDON EDITION. FIRST ISSUE, without a forntispiece and 135 pages, preceding the Boston issue by several weeks. An outstanding copy of this rare issue.
Seller: J & S WILBRAHAM, LONDON, United Kingdom
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Courtship of Miles Standish and other Poems. W. Kent & Co., 1858.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Courtship of Miles Standish and other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Third edition published in London by W. Kent & Co. in 1858. Inscription inked on title page. Previous owners plate on front pastedown. Soiling on both boards. 135 pages. Nice solid copy.
Seller: Nash Books, Huntsville, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$94.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Duodecimo, 7" tall, 227 pages + 40 ads; green embossed cloth with gilt titles on spine. Includes a 40-page publisher's annual catalog dated January 1858. BAL 12121. An early printing. A good plus, clean solid original copy with exterior green cloth discolored to a brown tone along the back strip and top margins, gilt only lightly dimmed, top inch of back strip separating and chipping, internally very good, binding sturdy, paper lightly yellowed with previous owner's name (the Chalmers family of Longcroft in Scotland) on reverse of front free endpaper.
Seller: Avenue Victor Hugo Books, Newmarket, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$131.55 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition, second issue. 40pp catalogue at end dated Jan 1858. Original cloth blindstamped with gilt spine, lightly rubbed at extremities, previous owners name (Hely Hutchinson) on title page.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$198.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST US EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 1858 to both title page & copyright page, plus 'treacherous' for 'ruddy' in line 3 of page 124. Contains the 12pp of ads at rear dated OCTOBER 1858. From Ahearn (2002): "4 printings in 1858, all had 'treacherous' for 'ruddy' in third line of page 124, so ads may determine [first state]. October 1858 is earliest" (as per this copy). The US edition was published shortly after the UK edition (both 1858). The UK edition preceded the US edition by a month, with ads dated January 1858, & was published in London by W. Kent & Co. Some copies of the first US edition have a tipped-in leaf at front for the Waverley novels (not in this copy). NOTE: Interestingly, this copy from the library of poet B.J. Leedom, with his ink signature to first blank (& dated "1858", the year of publication), plus his printed bookplate to front pastedown ("Belonging to the Library of B.J. Leedom, Bluffland, Germantown"). Benjamin Jones Leedom (1807-1883) was a contemporary of Longfellow. His volume "The Voyage to Harlem, Thirty Years Ago, and Other Poems" was published in Philadelphia in 1867. Both Longfellow & Leedom were born in 1807, & died a year apart (in 1882 & 1883 respectively). Also with additional former owner's bookplate to ffep. Electrotyped & printed by Metcalf & Company, Cambridge. Bound in publisher's original full brown cloth, with bright gilt lettering & horizontal blind-stamped rules to spine, all boards panelled in blind, including triple-ruled blind-stamped borders & blind-stamped floral decorations, brown-coated endpapers. Chips with small loss & wear to spine ends (notably 2cm x 0.5cm chip to head of spine), wear through to tips of boards, small gouge marks (insect damage?) to lower edge of book block (affecting lower margin edge of several pages), faint splash stain to two pages, otherwise despite the faults still a clean tight solid hardcover copy. 215pp + 12pp ads at rear. First US edition with interesting contemporary literary provenance. RARE.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Original olive cloth with blind-stamped boards, spine titled in gilt, yellow end-papers. Previous owner's inscription on front free end-paper, light scattered foxing, spine sunned [as usual] and lightly frayed, boards lightly soiled and rubbed, a very good solid copy. Classic American narrative poetry. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, PRECEDING THE AMERICAN.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$243.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Bound in green cloth with gilt title and decoration to spine; blind decoration to front board. Cloth well rubbed alonge edges and extremities; head a little bumped and corners bumped inwards; edges of pages darkened; ink numbers to front pastedown and bookseller's ticket to rear; spot of brown ink ot front free endpaper; interior foxing; final signature (of advertising) starting.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH.|THE. W. Kent, London, 1858.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Bound in purple embossed cloth with bright gilt title on spine. 227 pages. First edition. BAL 12121. Minor wear to spine ends. Else a very good copy. An important Longfellow volume with some of his most famous poems. Longfellow claimed that his tragi-comic ballad of a Pilgrim love triangle was inspired by true events; he was himself descended from the Plymouth Pilgrims, including the real-life namesakes of his poem's protagonists. Bound in purple embossed cloth with bright gilt title on spine
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition , Second printing (preceding the American). The 135 page printed wrappers issue precedes this 227 page setting. The preface is slightly revised here. (i)-xii, (1)-227 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. BAL 12121 Original green cloth, gilt spine (i)-xii, (1)-227 pp. 1 vols. 12mo First edition , Second printing (preceding the American). The 135 page printed wrappers issue precedes this 227 page setting. The preface is slightly revised here.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$441.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, AND OTHER POEMS", By/Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. London: W.Kent & Co. (Late D. Bogue), 86, Fleet Street, And Paternoster Row. MDCCCLVIII." First Edition, first issue. Pages viii, 136 [paginated 2-135]. NOTE: THIS COPY WAS REBOUND EARLY IN 3/4 LEATHER AND MARBLED BOARDS. Unfortunately it was rebound (as was common with wraps) minus the front and rear covers and minus the Four page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear.So basically the front and rear covers along with the 4-page book advertisement were left out leaving the front and rear end-papers, title page and the full poem which ends on page 135. The inside is actually very clean, tight, and complete and has been protected well from having the early rebinding. Proof that it is a first edition first issue is shown by the ink shadow on the back page which matches the original page of advertisement that followed page 135. I am able to provide a copy of the original covers and advertisements from another original copy that I have listed.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 12mo. Original publishers light brown paper printed paper wrappers with date and publisher on cover. 135pp plus 4pp ads in back. The scarce first edition of Longfellow's celebrated narrative poem about the early days of Plymouth Colony. Nicely preserved with paper loss at spine, corner chip from wrapper, fold marks, clean and bright internally.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$619.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "LONGFELLOW'S NEW POEM. THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, AND OTHER POEMS, By/Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. London: W.Kent & Co. (Late D. Bogue), 86, Fleet Street, And Paternoster Row. MDCCCLVIII." First Edition, first issue. Pages viii, 136 [paginated 2-135]. Four page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Original paper covers, the inside front cover discusses copyright protection/ infringement, the rear inside and outer covers lists other Longfellow works. Covers a bit darkened over the years and spine strip has been replaced with an earlier mending strip. Minor chippig to edges of front and rear wrap covers, inside actually very clean, tight, and complete.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.