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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1892). The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 8vo. 316 pp. 12pp. publisher’s ads at end dated “November 1855”. Original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine (skilfully recased, light rubbing, faint soiling to binding, some occasional light foxing in text, some pages lightly wrinkled). Very good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “In the Moon” on p. 32, “Wahonomin” on p. 39, “Dove” on p. 96 “Cooed the Omemee” on p. 278; with the “n” in “one” on p. 279 present (no priority in BAL). BAL 12111; Grolier American 66; Livingston pp. 57-58.