LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. The Song of Hiawatha, 1855. Brown cloth, fore-corners a trifle worn, blue half morocco slipcase. Publisher's advertisements at rear dated November 1855 -- The Courtship of Miles Standish, 1858. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., brown endpapers (BAL's "gilt extra" binding), light wear at ends of spine and fore-corners, purple half morocco slipcase. Remnant of contemporary bookplate inside front cover. Laid in: ALS from Longfellow to Mrs. S.N. Brooks, Cambridge, 27 March 1870, 1 p., 8vo, with envelope, regarding a review of her "Note." Both Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Together 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTINGS. BAL 12112 & 12122; the first title is Grolier American 66. (2)

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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. The Song of Hiawatha, 1855. Brown cloth, fore-corners a trifle worn, blue half morocco slipcase. Publisher's advertisements at rear dated November 1855 -- The Courtship of Miles Standish, 1858. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., brown endpapers (BAL's "gilt extra" binding), light wear at ends of spine and fore-corners, purple half morocco slipcase. Remnant of contemporary bookplate inside front cover. Laid in: ALS from Longfellow to Mrs. S.N. Brooks, Cambridge, 27 March 1870, 1 p., 8vo, with envelope, regarding a review of her "Note." Both Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Together 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTINGS. BAL 12112 & 12122; the first title is Grolier American 66. (2)

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