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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Spanish Student, A Play in Three Acts & Ballads and Other Poems. John Owen Cambridge, 1843.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This rare volume was attractively rebound about 50 years ago in a full purple buckram binding with gilt titles on the spine. Some soiling to the page blocks, some minor scattered foxing. One page is chipped in the corner. With 183 page and 132 pages respectively. The two books are bound together, the second volume is also from 1843 and is a fifth printing.

Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Spanish Student. A play, in three acts. Published by John Owen, Cambridge, 1843.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. First edition. Originally published in Graham's Magazine (1842), this comedic play reflects Longfellow's experiences in Spain. According to the preface the play "is taken in part from the beautiful tale of Cervantes, ‘La Gitanilla'." Rebound in white parchment over boards with maroon leather label on the spine. New endpapers. The paper covering the internal front hinge is split; however, the binding remains tight. Foxing to edges of endpapers, edges of covers, and spine. Small dark marking to front cover and a few spots to interior, but clean and bright overall. 183 pages. DRA/101816.

Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH.. The Spanish Student. A Play, In Three Acts. Cambridge: John Owen, 1843, 1843.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Publisher's paper-covered boards, preserving part of the paper title label. While the boards are original, they have been crudely reattached with scotch tape (fixing the paper label upside down on the mostly perished spine). However, this is an exceptional association copy, inscribed on the first blank in Longfellow's distinctive hand, 'Miss Lowell with the kindest regards of the Author. June 1843.' The BAL (2071) notes one other copy inscribed in June, likely prior to actual publication, which was probably in the following month. The recipient was presumably one of James Russell Lowell's sisters. Some few years later, Lowell succeeded the older Longfellow as a professor of romance languages at Harvard. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.