Search Results: The Belfry Of Bruges and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-05-10. Paperback. Good.

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BiblioLife, 2009-04-10. Paperback. Used:Good.

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BiblioLife, 2009-04-10. Hardcover. Used:Good.

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Hardback. New.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. THE BELFRY OF BRUGES AND OTHER POEMS. Cambridge: John Owen, 1846. First edition, with wrappers dated 1845 as always. Original white wrappers lithographed in gilt, uncut. Spine rather chipped, lower blank edge (1/2 to 1 inch) of rear wrapper torn away, some chipping at corners; still a presentable copy in the original gilt wrappers, uncut. The publisher did not issue the book in cloth. Longfellow signed a contract in November, 1845, authorizing Owen to publish 1,000 copies. The book appeared just before Christmas. The custom was to predate books appearing at the end of the year, but Owen… Read More

Cambridge: John Owen, 1846. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Bound by Stikeman and Co. in three quarter green morocco with marbled endpapers, raised bands, and top edge gilt. Very good plus with mild wear to the extremities and along the front hinge. With a laid in Autograph Note Initialed by Longfellow to his publisher James T. Fields, dated 1875: "My Dear Fields, I cannot do it. I had rather fight the battle of Bunker's Hill. You must manage the matter for me. If Mr. Alden will give the sum you mention, he shall have the poem. Your Centennial friend, H.W.S." The note, evidently removed a little unevenly from a small notebook, is very good with some clean creases from folding, a short and neat tear through the top of a single letter, and a little residue on the recto. Includes two well-known Longfellow compositions: "The Arrow and the Song" ("I shot an arrow in the air...") and "Retribution" ("Though the mills of God grind slowly"). *BAL* 12083.