Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. THE SONG OF HIAWATHA; By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / With Illustrations and Designs by Frederic Remington, Maxfield Parrish and N.C. Wyeth. Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge, Boston and New York, 1911.

Price: US$158.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Quarto (9 3/8" x 7 1/8" x 1 1/2"), pictorial gilt-stamped brown cloth with large color plate paste-down executed by Maxfield Parrish, illustrated with frontispiece by N.C. Wyeth of "Hiawatha Fishing" (with tissue guard), & throughout by Frederic Remington with 22 "sepia" brown plates (reduced in size from the 1890 edition; each with tissue guards) and B&W images of artifacts in page margins; vocabulary and notes, light tan simulated birchbark endpapers; top of pages gilded (t.e.g.); vii, [viii] + 241, [242] pages. Weight: 2 llbs. 11.4 oz. Wonderfully illustrated epic poem on the Native American Mohawk chieftain Hiawatha (founder of the Iroquois Confederacy) by America's greatest 19th century lyric and narrative poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The color frontispiece by N.C Wyeth and Remington "sepia" plates are unfoxed with excellent definition and brightness; the B&W drawings on page margins by Remington of Indian artifacts are crisp. The cloth is firm and square; the covers are somewhat rubbed with scuffing and wear to the color plate by Maxfield Parrish. The heavy stock pages are clean and ever-so-slightly unformly toned. No previous ownership markings. No dust jacket. Clear protective plastic jacket added for protection.

Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.