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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. Miscellaneous Poems. Selected from the United States Literary Gazette. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company and Harrison Gray, 1826. Contemporary green crushed levant elaborately gilt, red levant inlays, blue crushed levant doublures gilt, edges gilt, by Samblancx-Weckesser; slipcase. Provenance: E.D. Church (bookplate on flyleaf). Includes 14 poems by Longfellow, as well as works by Bryant and others. Rare. BAL 12037. – Hyperion, a Romance. New York: Samuel Colman, 1839. 2 volumes. Contemporary red crushed levant gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: Robert Hoe (bookplate on pastedown). BAL 12064 (setting A of vol. I, setting B of vol. II). – Voices of the Night. Cambridge: John Owen, 1839. Original boards. Provenance: Fred[eric]k A. Farley (signature on flyleaf). BAL 12065 (unaltered text on p.18). – The Seaside and the Fireside. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Original slate cloth gilt-extra, edges gilt. Provenance: Henry W. Longfellow signature pasted down on flyleaf. BAL 12099. – Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Original cloth. First American edition (preceded by the English edition of the same year). BAL 12136 (first printing, catalog A). – Together, 5 works in 6 volumes, all first editions except where noted, 16mo and 8vo, bindings as described; cloth slipcases.