Tales of a Wayside Inn.

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.

Item Number: 137254

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

First American edition of one of Longfellow’s best-known works, containing the first appearance in book form of his most enduring poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Octavo, original publisher’s green diamond-grained cloth with gilt titles to the spine. BAL 12136. In very good condition. Small bookplate and bookseller’s catalogue description tipped in.

American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's best-known lyrical poems include Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. The most popular poet of his day, many of his works helped shape the American character and its legacy, particularly with the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" which was first published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly and for the first time in book form as "The Landlord's Tale" in the present volume.