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Lot 161
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH The Song of Hiawatha.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's brown gilt lettered cloth, housed in a red morocco backed slipcase. 7 x 4 1/2 inches; 316 pp., ads dated "November 1855" inserted between the endpapers at rear. A very fine and bright copy with a very slight lean and minor rubbing to the binding extremities, a small gouge near the gutter of the front blank, with the booklabels of Charles Crocker Templeton and William Safire.
The first printing of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, this copy with the provenance of the librettist, proponent of American Art Deco, past president of the California Historical Society, and general polymath Charles Templeton Crocker. The book with the following first issue points: "In the Moon" on p. 32, line 11; "Wahonomin" for "Wahonowin" on p. 39, line 11; "Dove" for "Dived" on p. 96, line 7; "Cooed the Omemee" for "Cooed the pigeon" on p. 278, line 4 up; the "n" in "one" on p. 279, line 5 up is present (no priority in BAL); the ads dated November 1855.
BAL 12112.
C From the Collection of the late William Safire
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