Hiawatha
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Company. Good with No dust jacket as issued. N.D.. Reprint. Reprint. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's blue cloth over paper-covered boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt decorated borders on cover surrounding paste-down circular portrait of Longfellow, t.e.g., textured endpapers. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece of rural scene. . Boards rubbed and mildly worn, gift inscription dated 1935 on ffep, former owner's signature on title page, front hinge separated at title page, but hinge firm, otherwise unmarked; tight, and square. GOOD. . 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 288 pp .
Synopsis
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27937
- Title
- Hiawatha
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Reprint. Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- H. M. Caldwell Company
- Place of Publication
- NY and Boston
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Keywords
- Poetry;, Longfellow;, Hiawatha;, American Indians;, Native Americans;
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- Reprint
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- Tight
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