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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in publisher's heavy full brown morocco spine with raised bands and gilt titling, spine and covers decorated in blind, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt (some rubbing, bookplate). Iillustrated with steel and wood-engravings, etc. Not located in BAL.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rebound in blue three quarter leather over blue silk boards. The spines have 5 raised bands with gilt stamping.The title pages and indexes for volumes 1 and 2 are bound in the rear of volume 3 and the title pages and index for volume 3 is missing.
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Vol I only. Measuring approximately 12" x 10" with 488 numbered pages. This book is in good plus condition. Heavy chipping to both ends of spine. Heavy scuffing to spine and both boards. Gilt lettering on spine and front board still full and vivid. All edges are gilt. Moderate scuffing to all edges. Front and rear hinges are cracked but no mesh exposed. This book highlights the poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with illustrations. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (N9-42).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$139.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good 2 VOLUME SET of hardcovers. VOLUME 1 AND 2 (of a 3 volume set). 10" X 12". ORIGINAL 1879 PRINTING. Beautiful portrait of Longfellow as frontispiece. Lavishly illustrated with steel-engraved plates throughout. Ex-Library and RE-BOUND BY LIBRARY WITH NEWER COVERS: library bookplate on front endpaper and catalogue numbers stamped in gilt along spine. PAGES UNMARKED WITH NO FOXING SPOTS. Volume 1 has a light damp stain near pages edge from title page to end of the list of illustrations (through xvi). Very light damp stain and rippling on a few rear pages in vol. 2. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Bindings tight, hinges strong, reinforced with bookbinders tape.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
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.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volume set. A superior set, in exceptional condition. 3/4 fine leather binding, with gold embossing of phoenix harp on front cover. All edges gilt. Excellent binding and cover, with only slight shelf wear. Illustrated throughout. Clean, unmarked pages. Issued in 30 parts; paged continuously. 928 p.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Three volume set in green boards with gilt lettering and nice embossing. All the volumes have some wear near corners and at edges of spine. Five raised bands plus gilt edge decoration. Decorated endpapers. A nice set.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
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.
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.
Price: US$370.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 3 volume set. Fine bindings. A handsome set from an important Baltimore merchant family. Folios. Bound in contemporary 3/4 green leather binding over blue cloth boards. Gilt ruled. 5 raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Minor shelf wear scuffs to covers. Volume III has a small scuff on the spine. The rear cover of volume I is somewhat discolored. Solid bindings and covers. Illustrated edition. Engravings throughout. Large format. Clean, unmarked pages. Volume 3 dated 1883. Provenance: Gift inscription from Charles Morton Stewart to Josephine Lurman Stewart, 1880 (1847-1929, Baltimore, MD). Later Christmas inscription to Josephine Lurman Stewart Jr. from her grandmother. Stewart owned a fleet of coffee ships which traded with Brazil. He was a trustee of Johns Hopkins University and Director of the National Bank of Baltimore. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 3 vol., illus. Originally issued in 45 parts for subscription, paged continuously. A.e.g. Vol. 3 has title: the Complete Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with his later poems.with a biographical sketch by Octavious B. Frothingham. Illustrations by F.OC. Darley, E.A. Abbey, E.W. Longfellow and others. This is the "Illustrated Folio Longfellow" with illustrations by the foremost American artists of the time. Usually found without the third volume. Vol. 1 has some damp stains to bottom of front endpapers and lower corner hinge area through the front matter. Rear joint beginning to crack but holding. Vol. 2 has damp staining to bottom edge with chipping to head of spine, rear joint beginning to crack but holding. Vol 3 has damp staining to bottom edge and top corner with front joint cracking but holding. [Loc 25]
Seller: ReREAD Books & Bindery, Little Rock, AR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1099.00 + shipping
Description: THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Houghton - Mifflin, 1879 through 1883, first edition, 45 vols and 1440 pages in wraps. Quite scarce thus. There is indeed some light wear and tear to several of the wraps, however, most are fine with equally fine or better contents which are replete with illustrations and etchings by well known artists. These books in original wraps are infinitely more difficult to locate then any of those myriad volumes rebound in leather.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.