The Estray: A Collection of Poems

Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847.

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. First edition. Publisher's glazed cream paper over boards with a printed paper spine label. Contemporary gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper, slight foxing, a few tiny tears at the crown, else a fine copy, housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase with a red leather spine label stamped in gold. Edited by Longfellow, this anthology opens with his "Proem," later collected in *The Seaside and the Fireside* as "Pegasus in Pound." A bright, handsome copy. *BAL* 12088.

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Item #76888 The Estray: A Collection of Poems. Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW.
The Estray: A Collection of Poems
The Estray: A Collection of Poems
The Estray: A Collection of Poems
The Estray: A Collection of Poems
The Estray: A Collection of Poems
The Estray: A Collection of Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
birth name: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
born: 2/27/1807
died: 3/24/1882

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The most popular American poet of the 19th century. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore