![CHRISTUS. A Mystery. [In Three Volumes.]. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](/images/noimage.png)
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Original green cloth decorated in gilt, on beveled boards. First Combined Edition, with three minor additions, which consisted of only 512 copies. The three parts were originally published (in a different order) as separate titles -- THE DIVINE TRAGEDY in 1871, THE GOLDEN.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt, beveled. First Edition (English -- this and the American edition came out simultaneously on September 6, 1873). Quoting from William Dean Howells's review in the November 1873 Atlantic Magazine, In Aftermath, we have.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 22 pp ads dated Nov 1863. Original blind-stamped blue-green cloth. First American Edition, probably published a few weeks after the 1864-dated London one. This collection of verse contains one of Longfellow's best-known poems "Paul Revere's Ride" ("Listen, my children, and you shall hear | Of.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. 12 pp ads dated October 1858. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American Edition, first printing (the only one with the title page dated 1858). The title verse is one of Longfellow's better-known poems (over 100 pages long), sited in the Plymouth Colony of the Mayflower.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition, first printing. This is a book-length narrative poem based on a Middle High German romance by Hartmann von Aue [c.1170 - c.1210]; Longfellow's version was soon adapted as a cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan). The.....
[in the gift binding] Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Original brown cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on the spine and both covers, all page edges gilt. First Edition, special gift binding, of this collection of verse best known for the trochaic ode "The Building of the Ship," which concludes.....
[W.B. Yeats and Rupert Brooke] London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue wrappers decoratively printed in black. First Published Edition, issued in wrappers by Elkin Mathews as No. 17 in the "Vigo Cabinet Series." This pair of very early Yeats tales had been privately printed in 1897.....
[in original boards] London: Printed and Published by R. Carlile, 1822. Original drab paper-covered boards. First Published Edition, second issue -- which is to say, the sheets of William Clark's 1821 pirated edition, with the 1822 cancel title leaf of radical publisher Richard Carlile. "Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem [in.....
[the Abel Berland copy] London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. 2 pp undated ads, 4 leaves of preliminary titles, and 4 pp ads dated June 1815. Original unprinted drab wrappers. First Edition of this collection of verse, best known for "She Walks in Beauty." HEBREW MELODIES was published during the.....
