A handsome early Modern Library volume gathering Longfellow's best-loved narrative poems: Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, The Song of Hiawatha and Tales of a Wayside Inn, along with many shorter poems. This is the First Modern Library Edition, 1932, stated on the copyright page, from the Bennett Cerf / Donald Klopfer era, bound for the Modern Library by H. Wolff.
What makes this copy special is the original pre-war dust jacket: the yellow-and-green 95-cent jacket (ML #56 on the spine) with the "Books that have something to say to the Modern Mind" order panel on the back and the complete list of titles printed on the reverse. Early Modern Library jackets were usually discarded, so finding the first ML printing still in its jacket is uncommon.
- Publisher: The Modern Library, New York (Bennett A. Cerf · Donald S. Klopfer)
- Edition: "First Modern Library Edition 1932" stated on copyright page
- Modern Library title #56; jacket priced 95 cents (One Dollar in Canada)
- Binding: green cloth, gilt Modern Library running-dog device, patterned endpapers
- Bound by H. Wolff · Manufactured in the United States of America
- 678 pages
- Dust jacket complete and presentable; age toning, edge wear and small chips, mainly at spine ends and corners
- Piece of old tape affixed to the back panel of the jacket at top center (left in place)
- Cloth binding solid and clean with bright gilt device
- Light foxing/spotting to preliminary pages; page edges toned with age
- Please see all photos for exact condition
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