Quarter-bound, spine bound with purple cloth, boards covered with purple paper. Spine, sunned, split on the top right, bumped, rubbed, shelf worn.  Pictorial frontboard, faded gilt letters and border,  bumped, rubbed, shelf worn, sunned around the edges. Backboard, faded gilt letters and border,  bumped, rubbed, shelf worn, sunned around the edges. All edges have handling marks. Used good condition. Pastedown inscription by previous owner dated 1911. Hinges between both pastedowns and endpapers are cracked. All pages and illustrations are clean and complete.   Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, undated, circa 1911. In this land of change it is important that we may learn a little of the childlike people who preceded us; who hunted, fished and worshipped long ago where we now make our homes and lead our lives. No other legends have so strange a charm, or such appealing local interest, as legends of the wildwood, and nowhere are these so well expressed as in Longfellow\'s poem of Hiawatha.To furnish a simple medium through which both younger and older people of today may be brought closer, by Longfellow, to the mystery of the forest, this prose rendering of \"Hiawatha\" has been written. It follows closely the narrative of the poem, and in many places Longfellow\'s own words have been introduced into its pages, for the purpose of this volume is to awaken interest and pleasure in the poem itself