Search Results: tales of a wayside inn hardcover by henry wadsworth longfellow

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 1863. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE "B" HARDCOVER, GREEN CLOTH BINDING, GILT TO TOP EDGE, with pebbled pattern and in-blind borders; gold lettering, chocolate-colored endpapers, frontispiece with tissue overlay; 225 pages, with 22 pages of publisher's advertising at end dated November, 1863. Page 11 of publisher's advertising indicates the book "Tales of Wayside Inn and Other Poems" is not priced, but "Nearly ready." Condition of binding: Shelf wear, light bump to one corner (and "showing"). Expected age browning/tanning to edges. Internally: Faint pencil marks by book dealer on first free endpaper, brown spots from "breakdown of paper" on tissue overlay. Ownership name on frontispiece; and on half-title page with date (1863). Minor bumps to text block, causing light creases to corners of pages. Small corner piece of page missing on "Contents" page. Advertising pages: Shaken, tears to gutter area of… Read More