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Unstated. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In Six Vilumes - Volume I. Houghton, Mifflin And Company, 1886.

Price: US$10.14 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1886. No Edition Remarks. 330 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front end-paper. Heavy cracking to board gutters, with exposed netting. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a moderate forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Creasing to cloth at front board. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Longfellow, Henry W. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Household Edition with Illustrations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1886, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$14.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 492 pages with notes and index at rear of book. Extensive poetry includes sections on : Voices of the Night; earilier Poesm; Translations; Ballads; Poems on slavery; Belfry of bruges; songs; Sonnets; Evangeline; Seaside and Fireside; Song of Hiawatha; Courtship of Miles Standish; Birds of passage; Tales of a Wayside Inn; The Saga of King Olaf; Judas Maccabeus; folk songs; etc. Pages yellowed; moderate page wear. Book sticker in front inside cover. Inner spine creases weakened with inner cloth binding exposed. Dark blue faded hard cover with gold lettering and illustration. Spine frayed on top and bottom and has torn area near middle. Edges and corners of cover worn and mildly frayed. Book has a vast collection of Longfellow's poems; rare vintage collection!

Seller: Attic Treasures Book Shop, Mt. Carmel, IL, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow. Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$14.29 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Later printing.Based upon the Riverside edition. Musty smell. The endpapers are foxed. There are a few rough side edges in the clean text.The creased jacket is in a protective sleeve. Tape ghosts on the reverse. 1.73 lb

Seller: Hastings of Coral Springs, Altamonte Springs, FL, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin and Co., Boston, 1886.

Price: US$14.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Household Edition in brown cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 492pp. (light shelfwear, rubbing and dulling to cloth, toning to page edges, vintage name to blank preliminary page). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longlfellow. Hyperion and Kavanagh (The Works of H. Wadsworth Longfellow with Bibliographical and Critical Notes and His Life with Extracts from his Journals and Correspondence, Vol. 8 of 14; Standard Library Ed.). ? Houghton Mifflin/ Riverside, 1886.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: (1886; Volume 8 only of 14 volume set) Hardcover with No Dust Jacket (as issued). Boards with shelf wear, rubbing at corners and spine ends with fraying. Dust soil/ toning to page edges. Toning to end papers. Pages unmarked. Binding with no separations. Hinges intact.

Seller: Never Too Many Books, West Poland, ME, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longlfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Six Volumes. Volume II: Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, and the Courtship of Miles Standish. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: (1886; Volume 2 only of 6 volume set) Hardcover with No Dust Jacket (as issued). Boards with shelf wear, bumped at corners and spine ends with rubbing. Gold gilt to top page edges. Toning to page edges. Toning to end papers. Pages unmarked. Binding with no separations. Hinges intact.

Seller: Never Too Many Books, West Poland, ME, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Christus: A Mystery (Illustrated) (The Poetical Works in Six Volumes / Standard Library Edition in Fourteen Volumes, 5). Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1886.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: (1886-Houghton) Dark green cloth with glued on title to spine. Hardcover with No Dust Jacket (as issued). Boards with shelf wear, bumped at corners and spine ends with light fraying. Gold gilt to top page edges. Toning to page edges. Pages unmarked. Binding with no separations. Hinges intact.

Seller: Never Too Many Books, West Poland, ME, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 348 pages. Gilt edges, beveled board covers. With numerous illustratons. Corners and edges of backstrip rubbed and bumped. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS Volume 2. houghton mifflin, 1886.

Price: US$20.47 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good hardcover in dust jacket. Dust jacket shows edge wear and heavy rubbing. Previous owner's nameplate on inside cover. Pages show tanning and foxing. Hinges are cracked, binding intact.; 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 Volume III. Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1886.

Price: US$24.45 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good hardcover, no dust cover. Text is unmarked. Top page ends are gold gilt, and pages have some foxing. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/ scuffing. and bumped corners.Binding is intact. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Household Edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1886.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Pub by Houghton Mifflin, copyright 1886, Household Edition. VG cond hardcover now in archival Brodart, no dj. Green cloth over bds w/ black & bright gilt dec & lettering on cover & spine. A handsome copy. Light bumping & rubbing to wear points. Dark grey eps, prev owner's name in pencil 2fep. Glossy b&w frontis portrait of author w/ tissue guard. 11 more full page illus in b&w scattered throughout. 496pp. incl index. Book is square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1886.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Gilt & black lettering and gilt front cover wreath on blue cloth covered boards. 8vo, 492 pages. VG+.

Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha; With Notes and a Vocabulary. Houghton Mifflin 1886 [last copyright date], Boston, 1886.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 187, [1] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Ink notation on endpapers and fore-edge. Some pencil checkmarks and page soiling noted. Some footnotes observed. This is one of the Riverside Literature Series. It may have first appeared in this series in 1883. Name of previous owner, and date of 1915, on verso facing the title page. Front and back endpapers have information on the Riverside Literature Series. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine. He studied at Bowdoin College and became a professor at Bowdoin and later at Harvard College after spending time in Europe. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His second wife Frances Appleton died in 1861 after sustaining burns when her dress caught fire. After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry for a time and focused on translating works from foreign languages. He died in 1882. Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and had success overseas. The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area of Michigan on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem is based on oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, but it also contains his own innovations. Longfellow drew some of his material from his friendship with Ojibwe Chief Kahge-ga-gah-bowh, who would visit at Longfellow's home. He also had frequent encounters with Black Hawk and other Sauk people on Boston Common, and he drew from Algic Researches (1839) and other writings by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an ethnographer and United States Indian agent, and from Heckewelder's Narratives. In sentiment, scope, overall conception, and many particulars, Longfellow insisted, "I can give chapter and verse for these legends. Their chief value is that they are Indian legends." Longfellow had originally planned on following Schoolcraft in calling his hero Manabozho, the name in use at the time among the Ojibwe of the south shore of Lake Superior for a figure of their folklore who was a trickster and transformer. But he wrote in his journal entry for June 28, 1854: "Work at 'Manabozho;' or, as I think I shall call it, 'Hiawatha'?that being another name for the same personage." Longfellow was following Schoolcraft, but he was mistaken in thinking that the names were synonymous. The name Hiawatha is derived from a historical figure associated with the League of the Iroquois, then located in New York and Pennsylvania. The popularity of Longfellow's poem nevertheless led to the name "Hiawatha" becoming attached to a number of locales and enterprises in the Great Lakes region. Longfellow's poem was taken as the first American epic to be composed of North American materials and free of European literary models. Longfellow provided something entirely new, a vision of the continent's pre-European civilization in a metre adapted from a Finnish, non-Indo-European source.

Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

LONGFELLOW,HENRY WADSWORTH. THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Houghton & Mifflin Co., Boston, 1886.

Price: US$35.63 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hard cover, no dust jacket. Very good condition. Green decorated binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

Seller: Livres Norrois, Quebec, QC, Canada

Longfellow, Henry W. Illustrations By Various Artists. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Household Edition. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$39.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886. Copyright 1886, this copy ca. 1910. Three quarter dark green leather over marbled boards, slightly raised spine bands with gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, 8.25 inches tall. Rubbing to the extremities, mainlyt the corners and joints, some very light chipping to spine ends, front hinge has internal surface crack (not structural), firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Volume VI Judas Maccabaeus, Michael Angelo and Translations. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 3/4 green leather with marbled boards. Front board starting to detach. Fading/rubbing to spine. Pages/boards clean, textblock sturdy.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Volume V Christus: A Mystery. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 3/4 green leather with marbled boards. Front board almost entirely detached. Spine faded, light shelf wear. Otherwise good. Pages clean, NO foxing or markings. Textblock sturdy.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Houghton & Mifflin Co., Boston, 1886.

Price: US$50.80 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Brown decorated cover.Gilt edges.Illustrated.348 pages. Size 6 1/2 X10 inches.Previous owner's name on front free endpaper.Shelfwear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

Seller: Livres Norrois, Quebec, QC, Canada

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin, 1886.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Smaller, thick book, dark green cloth, 519 pages, with exceedingly tiny font-size. Gilt and black embossed illustration on front a little rubbed, less so on spine, very light wear to spine edges and tips. Near Very Good.

Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Household Edition, Illustrated. 3/4 leather with marbled boards and ornate spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration, Endpapers and all page ends are marbled. Frontis illustration of Longfellow with tissue guard. 492 pages, including notes. Some scarring and scuffing to leather, A few pencil check marks in contents, front hinge is partially cracked, one of the endpapers is missing. Binding is solid. Overall, a very nice copy.

Seller: Moneyblows Books & Music, Lee, NH, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Voices of the Night Ballads and Other Poems. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$83.00 + shipping

Description: Volume I of the Riverside Edition: Poems on slavery, the Spanish Student, the Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, the Seaside and the Fireside. Small 8vo, b&w frontis, 330 pp, teg. Three quarter red calf with marbled boards. Decorative gilt spine with 6 compartments and gilt title (Poetical Works of Longfellow). Covers are in beautiful condition, with very little wear to edges; one small crimp indentation at back cover. Internally, pages lightly toned, o/w very good, with no owner signature or bookplate.

Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Christus: A Mystery In Three Parts I: The Divine Tragedy - II: The Golden Legend - III: The New England Tragedies. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$83.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo, 455pp, b&w frontis with double tissue guard. Half red calf with gray marbled boards. Decorative gilt spine with raised gilt bands, and title in gilt "Poetical Works of Longfellow", very good. Internally, marbled endpapers, lightly toned pages, almost no fox spotting whatsoever.

Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

Dante Alighieri - Inferno Dante Alighieri; Translator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Purgatorio (The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow With Bibliographical and Critical Notes and His Life With Extracts From His Journals and Correspondence, Volume X). Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Price: US$87.30 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1886) Fine Hardcover, no dj. DarkGreen cloth, Gilt spine title. The Book is Clean Unmarked throughout. Strong Tight binding and hinges. 9.1"x5.2"x1.0". be34071.

Seller: Saul54, Lynn, MA, U.S.A.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Six Volumes. Vol. IV: TALES OF WAYSIDE INN. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Price: US$96.30 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company (1886). 266 pages. 6 plates. FINE Hardcover, no dj. DarkGreen cloth, Maroon leather bookplate with spine title, Gilt top edge. Excellent condition. 8.3"x 5.3"x 1.2". be35684.

Seller: Saul54, Lynn, MA, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Longfellow's Works, Eight Volumes. Houghton,mifflin and Company, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Maroon buckram hardbacks. Contains both poetry and prose of Longfellow. Bindings are all tight with very minor wear to some corners and spine edges. Gilt lettering to spines is easily read and gilt to upper edges is bright. Each volume contains bookplate to upper edge of front pastedown as well as FO name and date to FFEP but no other marks. Set weighs a little over 13 lbs. So there will be a slight charge for extra postage. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: The Book Lady, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Six Volumes. Houghton, Mifflin and co., 1886.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Six octavo volumes. Riverside edition. Original 3/4 deep maroon leather over marbled boards, top edge gilt, raised bands, gilt spine, marbled endpapers. Rubbing wear to edges and joints, minor cracking to spine leather. Spotting to prelims, otherwise internally crisp and clean.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

Dante Alighieri; Translator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Inferno. (The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow., Viol. IX). Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Price: US$114.30 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1886). 446 pages. Frontispiece. Fine Hardcover, no dj. DarkGreen cloth, Brow n leather plate with Spine title, Gilt top edge. No Wear. Clean Unmarked , Perfect binding and hinges. 8.4"x 5.5"x 1.3". be35633.

Seller: Saul54, Lynn, MA, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Household Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1886.

Price: US$115.20 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Household Edition

Seller: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Canada

Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1886.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A beautiful 6-volume set of Longfellow's work. All volumes are clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are sage green with bright gilt lettering. Gilt decoration and numbering on the spines is somewhat faded but still clear. Slight shelf wear as would be expected for books of this age. A nice set.

Seller: Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1886.

Price: US$144.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 6 vols., illus 31 cm.

Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (6 Volumes). Houghton Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: An attractive set of Longfellow, in six quarto volumes; green cloth boards with gilt rule to the perimeters and "Longfellow" stamped in gilt to the front board of each volume; with discreet numbering at the spines. With all edges gilt. Engraved illustrations, both full page and vignettes in text, and charming titling. Volume 3 has some silverfishing to the front cover. A very restrained and handsome set. Very Good binding.

Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

LONGFELLOW Henry Wadsworth. 14 VOLUME SET: The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (14 vols). With bibliographical and critical notes and his life, with extracts from his journals and correspondence, edited by Samuel Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Price: US$163.93 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 14 vols, portrait frontispiece and other illustrations, hardbacks (dark green cloth, a maroon morocco label on each spine), a very good ex-library set

Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Bibliographical and Critical Notes and His Life with Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence, Edited by Samuel Longfellow (Fourteen Volumes). Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Price: US$195.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Complete 14 volume set in green cloth with spine labels lettered in gilt shows some light general wear to volumes with occasional soil and tiny edge tear here and there, touch of wear to couple of spine labels, along with volumes 13 + 14 being good + with moisture wear and mild staining to spine tails and spine edges of covers with same to endpapers and staining to some page edges of same bottom areas, handful of white specks to cover of violume 6, white discoloration to top corner of volume 4 and group of wrinkled page corners and foxing at fore edges of vol. 8. This is still an attractive standard library set that will look good on the shelf that includes illustrations and features Dante's Inferno, Poetical Works, Life, Hyperion, Kavanaugh, Outre-mer and Drift-wood.

Seller: Barker Books & Vintage, Helena, MT, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Bibliographical and Critical Notes and His Life with Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence, Edited by Samuel Longfellow (Fourteen Volumes). Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Price: US$199.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover. 14 Volume Set. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Household Edition [Bound In Full Morocco With Purple Doublures]. Houghton, Mifflin And Company, Boston / New York, 1886.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Xvii, 496 Pp. Household Edition, Copyright 1886, No Date On Title Page. Finely Bound In Plain Purple Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Title And "Illustrated" On Spine, Finely Gilt Doublures With Purple And Gilt Patterned Silk Endpapers.S, All Edges Gilt.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Bibliograpical and Critical Notes, and His Life, with Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence, Edited by Samuel Longfellow, in Fourteen Volumes. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Green cloth bindings with brown leather backstrip labels rubbed at spine ends, corners; a few boards scuffed/smudged; some front hinges cracked; leaf edges foxed, else a nice set, with bright, clear ils.; Good b&w ils.; fourteen volumes feature six volumes of poetical works, three biographical, and five literature; teg. ; 8vo; 300+/vol. pages

Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Octavius B. Frothingham, Biographical Sketch. The POETICAL WORKS and The COMPLETE PROSE WORKS and LATER POEMS. Illustrated. Complete in Forty-five Parts. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston, copyright 1886. xvi,xvi,viii,1408 pages. 3 titlepages, illustration lists, indexes, plates, engravings by Edwin Austin Abbey, A.B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, Thomas Moran, etc. 12.5 x 9.75", printed pale blue wrappers, advertsements, Prose Works Prospectus: 'sold exclusively by subscription in Fifteen Parts'. Untrimmed, unopened. See Bibliography of American Literature 12578. Few wraps detached, split, newsprint offsetting to 2 pages,minor wrap edge chipping, soiling, VG.

Seller: Peter L. Masi - books, MONTAGUE, MA, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -Illustrated. VOL. 1-6. Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$255.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Six seperate volumes of Full-leather bound w/gilt lettering and lined framing. Gilt to all edges. Numbers on spine caps all visible and clear. Volume 1 - all bound and all pages clean/unmarked. Moderate-heavy edgewear to covers. Stain from sticker residule to FFEP. Few light scrapes to cover. Volume 2 - Front board cracked, but bound. P. 457-460 were stuck together by something and ripped when detaching from eachother. Frontispiece before p.437 torn. First 20 pages or so w/minimal water stains to edges. Edge/cornerwear to covers. Everything bound. Volume 3 - (1880) Smudge to P.494. P. 461 w/elipsis on page in pen - otherwise all of text appears very clean and unmarked. Edge/cornerwear. Some spots to cover. Tight binding. Volume 4 - Back board starting to crack but very much bound and strong. Unmarked text. Edge/cornerwear. Top edge of text near corner a bit roughed - a light gnaw perhaps? (uneffecting text). Volume 5 - (1885) This is a prose works w/ his later poems. Clean, unmarked text. Binding solid. Edge/cornerwear. Same unfortunate gnaw to corner of text. Volume 6 - Text unmarked. Binding solid. Gnaw to top edge (again). Edge/cornerwear. Every volumes condition is from Good - Good plus. The minor wear to the actual text and illustrations is remarkable. I can't say enough about the heavily illustrated volumes. Several different artists contributed, but each one is heavily done and very intricate and beautiful w/onion skin papers. The leather binding has taken quite a few rubs and bumps but has left each text bound and in considerably good shape. Will package these volumes carefully and ship with considerable care. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Seller: Eastburn Books, Albany, OR, U.S.A.

Longfellow, Henry W.. THE WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW - Standard Library Edition in 14 volumes, 3/4 leather. Houghton Mifflin, 1886.

Price: US$380.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Houghton, 1886. 14 volumes. Standard Library edition, in 3/4 leather, with marbled boards, endpapers and gilt top edge. Most heads are lightly chipped, with more wear at the edges of the Letters volumes (12-14). Leather is a bit dry but sound and good looking. A very nice set. Not available for priority/expedited shipping. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping.

Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (6 Volumes). Houghton Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1886.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: An attractive set of Longfellow, in six quarto volumes; flexible brown leather boards with gilt rule to the perimeters and "Longfellow" stamped in gilt to the front board of each volume; with gilt ruled bands and discreet numbering. With marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Engraved illustrations, and charming titling. A very restrained and handsome set. Very Good binding.

Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth. THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ILLUSTRATED [with] THE COMPLETE PROSE WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW With His Later Poems Illustrated [and] With a Biographical Sketch by Octavius B. Frothingham.. Boston The Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifflin and Company [circa 1886], 1886.

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Description: 3 volumes. The Very Fine Deluxe illustrated folio edition of Longfellow's complete works. Illustrated with very handsomely engraved portrait frontispieces with facsimile signatures in each volume, profusely illustrated throughout with hundreds of engravings by various noted artists, many of which are on full page plates, many others are half-page in size, and still other smaller engravings are present throughout the volumes along with intricately designed chapter headings. Folio, in the publisher’s best and most deluxe and impressive binding of full dark brown morocco handsomely decorated with wide ornate panels of inlaid smooth morocco double-ruled in gilt and with large gilt corner tools to all covers, the upper covers with a full gilt decorations featuring a harp and flowers and ornate gilt lettering. The spines are decorated with gilt-ruled raised bands, panels in gilt with fine gilt tools in the center of each compartment, two compartments with bright gilt lettering on smooth morocco labels, beveled board edges gilt rolled, very wide beautifully gilt paneled turn-ins, fine brown moire silk pastedowns and end-leaves, and all edges richly gilded. xvi, 488; xvi, 489-928; viii, [2] 932-1407 [2] pp. An unusually fine, very handsome and pleasing set of this stunning edition, very well preserved indeed. The bindings are strong and firm, bright and clean and near as pristine, internally they are equally fine, fresh, bright and clean with not even a hint of foxing or any real evidence of use or age. FIRST OF THIS FINE EDITION OF VERY CLASSIC AMERICAN POETRY BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED IN AN IMPRESSIVE DELUXE FOLIO FORMAT. A very beautiful and imposing early edition of Longfellow’s great American poetry. The tomes are extensively illustrated with exceptional engravings by numerous artists which represent a wide variety of styles. This edition is made all the better by the inclusion of Longfellow's prose, later poems (many of which were not included in editions issued during his lifetime) and Ms. Frothingham's fine and concise biographical sketch. Louis Untermeyer, who writes of Longfellow's poetry: "It expresses a kindliness which is spontaneous, and a homeliness which is winning because it is so straightforward. It retains its popularity because it is unaffectedly clear, unashamedly tender, and unshakably serene." Here we find all of his groundbreaking works: such as Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, Tales of a Wayside Inn, Paul Revere's Ride, Courtship of Miles Standish, the Village Blacksmith, Poems on Slavery, and so very many others, and all quite impressively illustrated.

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