Description
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Introduction: Henry Seidel Canby
Illustrator: Edward A. Wilson
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Edition: Illustrated edition
Date of Publication: 1947
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Page Count: 287 pages
Condition
Very Good+ overall. Near Fine dust jacket, clean and well-preserved, now protected in new Brodart archival cover. Publisher’s green cloth with decorative vignette remains crisp with minimal shelf wear. Binding firm. Pages clean, lightly toned with age. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white.
Description
This illustrated volume presents a carefully chosen selection of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s most enduring poems in a mid-twentieth-century edition designed for both reading and presentation. Longfellow’s work—narrative, lyrical, and reflective—captures themes of history, legend, faith, and moral imagination that shaped American poetry for generations.
The volume includes an introduction by literary critic Henry Seidel Canby and illustrations by Edward A. Wilson, reflecting a period when classic poetry was issued in finely produced illustrated editions.
Collector’s Notes
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Illustrated Doubleday edition
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Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby
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Illustrations in color and black and white by Edward A. Wilson
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Original dust jacket in Near Fine condition, archivally protected






