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POEMS
by Longfellow, Henry W
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue, 1905. Pre - 1905 . Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/small soil spots to pages 16 &17, else, As New. Maroon linen boards w/gilt lettering to spine/NF w/trace rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. No publication date, BUT pre-1905 --- inscription to fEP dated 1905. Front cover verso w/newspaper (undated) clipping of Longfellow's first poem written at school when he was 9 years old: "Mr. Finney has a turnip/ And it grew behind the barn/ And it grew, and it grew/ And the turnip did no harm ..."; a turnip was indeed growing behind the schoolhouse barn. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), best known for Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline, was also the first American to translate Dante's The Divine Comedy. 240 pages (last unpaginated). Collection in 5 parts: I, Prelude; II, Voices of the Night; III, Ealier Poems; IV, Translations; V, Ballads & Other Poems; VI, Miscellaneous; and V, Poems on Slavery.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015920
- Title
- POEMS
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry W
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover/Stitched
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Pre - 1905
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- M.A. Donohue
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Anthology/Poetry/Verse/Literature/Ballads/Slavery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry/Verse;
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