Lot Details
Lot 83
LONGFELLOW, HENRY Evangeline. A Tale of Arcadie.
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1847. First edition, first state, with "Long" on p. 61 and 4 pp. publisher's catalog dated October 1, 1847, the Blair copy. Publisher's glazed light yellow paper boards, printed paper spine label, housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. 7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches (18 x 11.75 cm); 163pp., with 4 pp. ads at beginning. Light soiling, some wear to extremities, front joint and hinge cracked but the sewing is sound, backstrip detatched from front board, rear joint starting, contents generally fresh with an occasional pale spot, old gift inscription, two fragments of a letter from the firm Thomas J. Gannon, Inc. (probably 1940s) offering the copy for $950 laid-in, with the Blairhame book label.
The first edition, first state of Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline is exceedingly rare, with only about ten copies known, and this example, unrestored in it's original binding, even more so. This copy sold Christie's 14 December 2016, lot 247. BAL 12089; Wilson 224.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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