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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Golden Legend. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1852.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First edition. 12mo. Brown silk binding, blindstamped decoration to front and rear boards, titles in gilt to spine. Previous owner name, Helen May Sherman, Plymouth MA in contemporary hand. Shallow chipping top and bottom of spine. Hinges sound. Very good. Size: 12 mo.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Golden Legend. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1852.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 18.5 x 12 cm. 12mo. 301pp. Bound in brown blind-stamped cloth. Precededed by 4 page publisher's catalogue dated October, 1851, the state A earlier edition of the catalogue. BAL notes that during the first printing the date on the title page was changed from 1851 to 1852, this being a copy with the 1852 date. All first printing points mentioned in BAL present. Small black mark to spine, small closed tears to head and tale of spine. BAL12102.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Longfellow, Henry W.. The Golden Legend. Ticknor, Reed & Fields 1852, 1852.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Second Printing ed. NVG (FEP missing)
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Golden Legend. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1852.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Third printing. Ads at front dated April 1852. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 12102 Original brown cloth. Minor wear at head and tail of spine First edition, Third printing. Ads at front dated April 1852.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Golden Legend. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston, 1852.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Duodecimo, pp. iv, (1-3), 301; four page Publisher's catalogue inserted and dated January, 1852; blind stamped brown cloth, gilt; yellow end papers; BAL #12102. This is a book-length narrative poem based on a Middle High German romance by Hartmann von Aue [c.1170 - c.1210]; Longfellow's version was soon adapted as a cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan. This copy does have all thirteen of the second-printing issue points enumerated by Blanck.
Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Brown (perhaps originally slightly purple) cloth, faded. Gold decorations on the cover and spine. Page edges gilt. Binding in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. 301 pages. Gift inscription on the front endpaper, "Sarah E. Albro from her uncle. Cambridge. Jan 1, 1852." Her uncle was likely John Adams Albro, who was a prominent minister in Cambridge and associate (perhaps friend) of Longfellow himself. An interesting association copy.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. THE GOLDEN LEGEND. , 1852.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition, first printing. This is a book-length narrative poem based on a Middle High German romance by Hartmann von Aue [c.1170 - c.1210]; Longfellow's version was soon adapted as a cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan). The first printing was actually published on Nov 29, 1851, and partway through the printing of the 3600 copies, it was decided to change the title page date from 1851 to 1852 (as here) -- neither version was published (released to the public) before the other; in fact the copyright deposit copy is one of the 1852-dated copies. This copy does have all twelve of the first-printing issue points enumerated by Blanck (the second and third printings were also dated 1852, but have these textual changes). This copy is in the standard brown binding (others were bound in "gift" bindings that had gilt decoration); there is no preliminary ad catalogue, present in some copies only. It is in near-fine condition (very slight soil, occasional light foxing within); there is a calligraphic inked ownership inscription dated Jan. 1, 1852. Blanck 12102.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Golden Legend. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1852.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Full tan morocco lettered and ruled in gilt for Asprey, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Fine
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys.. Ticknor,Reed & Fields., Boston:, 1852.
Price: US$1265.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. First binding. Frontis and 6 plates. Sm. 8vo., BAL. 7606. Bound in original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind stamp covers. Book is very slightly cocked, lightly rubbed with a few flecks from the gilt on the edges. There are two tiny repairs, skillfully done to the very top and bottom of the spine. Otherwise a lovely, bright and clean copy. Six legends of Greek mythology, retold for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Included are The Gorgons Head, The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher, and The Chimaera. In 1838, Hawthorne suggested to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that they collaborate on a story for children based on the legend of the Pandoras Box, but this never materialized. He wrote A Wonder Book between April and July 1851, adapting six legends most freely from Charles Antons A Classical Dictionary (1842). He set out deliberately to "modernize" the stories, freeing them from what he called "cold moonshine" and using a romantic, readable style that was criticized by adults but proved universally popular with children.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.