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The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. [American Literature / Verse] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with "treacherous" for "ruddy", l.3, p.124. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.215; [1], blank; 12, advertisements dated October 1858. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively blocked in blind, gilt-lettered to spine, brown endpapers. This copy with the additional inserted ad for Ticknor and Field's edition of the Waverley Novels at the flyleaf. Bookplate to front, cloth worn, would benefit from a wash and rebind as there is tidemark throughout; fair thus. Longfellow's famous narrative poem about Plymouth Colony, the colonial settlement established in America by the Mayflower Pilgrims. Item #53414
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