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The Song of Hiawatha
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Frederic Remington; Maxfield Parrish; N.C. Wyeth. First Houghton edition with Maxfield Parrish cover illustration and Wyeth frontis. Reinforced at inner joints with cloth tape, binding a bit shaken, light cover wear, spine a bit faded. Old owner's name in pencil on endpaper and an old letter laid in. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Frederic Remington; Maxfield Parrish; N.C. Wyeth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048531.
Synopsis
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048531
- Title
- The Song of Hiawatha
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Illustrator
- Frederic Remington; Maxfield Parrish; N.C. Wyeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Poetry; NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
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- Cloth
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Spine
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- First Edition
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