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The Golden Legend (with autograph letter from Longfellow)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1851. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. 8vo (17 x 10 cm). 326 pp. Title page M DCCC LVI. Covers half-bound with brown leather and marbled paper. Corners bumped, wear to edges. With bookplate of actress Elsie Leslie Lyde, and "Elsie L. Winter" stamped in gilt on upper cover. Tipped in is an original letter (dated 1880) from Henry W. Longfellow to critic and author William Winter, father of Elsie's husband. Elsie Leslie (August 14, 1881 – October 31, 1966) was America's first child star and the highest paid and most popular child actress of her era. BAL 12102. Very good. Item #2336

Price: $1,950.00