Title: The waif: a collection of poems.Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, ...
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Title: The waif: a collection of poems.Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02080600CollectionID: CTRG96-B3398PublicationDate: 18450101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Edited by Longfellow, with his "Proem" The day is done and the darkness falls from the wings of night ...Collation: xi, 144 p.; 18 cm
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Presumed First Printing; 1845 date on title page; Longfellow NOT credited as editor; BAL notes that multiple cloth bindings have been identified in addition to the paper wrappers (BAL 12075); there is a small blind embossed stamp on the ffep identifying the binder as B. Bradley of Boston; Good+ in blind and gilt-stamped brown cloth boards; all edges gilt; patterned white coated endpapers; wear and rubbing to edges and extrems; softening and light fraying to spine ends; corners bumped and lightl.
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1845, Published by John Owen
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First edition
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Published by John Owen
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1845
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English
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Text foxed throughout; light wear to boards. 144 pp. 12mo, BAL 12075. Contains the first appearance of Longfellow's "Proem." Inscribed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (but not signed): "Emmeline [Wadsworth] from the Editor / Jan. 1, 1845."
