The Song of Hiawatha
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Very Good. 1855. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 316 pages; 1855 Ticknor & Fields. HC 1st American edition, 1st state. Snugly bound in original brown blind stamped cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine. Publisher's 11+[1] section of ads bound in between the rear pastedown and flyleaf are dated November 1855. Text on pages 96, 278 etc uncorrected with Dove pp 96 and n missing from one on 279. Cloth lightly crimped with superficial nicks at spine ends; corners lightly bumped with trace rub through top front corners. Prior owner name penned in small letters top of title page; mild foxing only to endleaves. It appears a blank at front between the coated front endpage and the title page has been removed. Generally bright and fresh and in much better condition than usually seen. VG .
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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- The Song of Hiawatha
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- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
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- Edition
- First American Edition; First Printing
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- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1855
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