The song of Hiawatha / written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; decorated by Valenti Angelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, author.

Contributor:

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hiawatha, active 15th century--Poetry.

Hiawatha, active 15th century.

Indians of North America--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.

Rag (Paper)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

138, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1942]

Summary:

Recounts the legend of Hiawatha, who was sent among his people to secure their land and to teach them the arts of peace.

Contents:

The peace-pipe

The four winds

Hiawatha's childhood

Hiawatha and mudjekeewis

Hiawatha's fasting

Hiawatha's friends

Hiawatha's sailing

Hiawatha's fishing

Hiawatha and the pearl-feather

Hiawatha's wooing

Hiawatha's wedding-feast

The son of the evening star

Blessing the corn-fields

Picture-writing

Hiawatha's lamentation

Pau-Puk-Keewis

The hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis

The death of Kwasind

The ghosts

The famine

The white man's foot

Hiawatha's departure.

Notes:

"The text of this book has been set in the Janson types and printed on specially-made Peter Pauper Press rag paper" -- Colophon.

Illustrated title page.

In slipcase.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 512 (page 141)

Contains:

Hiawatha.

OCLC:

2651041