LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1855. 8vo, original chocolate brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, a trifle rubbed at edges, half morocco folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST STATE with missing "n" on p. 279, line 5 up, 12-page publisher's catalogue dated November 1855 at end. BAL 12112; Grolier American 66: "...it both sentimentalized and dignified the American public's opinion of the Indian." A fine, bright, crisp copy of Longfellow's first best-seller; the American edition was published days after the English. Early ownership inscription of Ida A.C. Williams of Glen Cove, Long Island, on front free endpaper.