The Song of Hiawatha, with Illustrations
New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Company, No date [1896 - 1914]. Cloth. 12mo; ii, 301pp; gilt-stamped green cloth over board, portrait of a native American to the front in a gilt badge; ownerships to front endpapers including a book plate; frontispiece illustration of Longfellow, title page in two colors within a floral border; 20 additional full-page half-tone illustrations; light soiling to boards with some loss of gilt, light age-toning of paper, a few finger smudges; very good. Very good. Item #539
First published in 1855, the Song of Hiawatha, about the love of an Native American Ojibwe named Hiawatha for Minnehaha, a woman from the Dakota tribe. Longfellow had a friendship with an Ojibwe chief who would visit at his home and maintained that the inspiration was from one of their legends.
Price: $65.00