A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, first issue with no ads. Frontispiece and 6 engraved plates by Baker from designs by Billings. vi, 7 -256 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blind stamped blue cloth. Faintest traces of rubbing to the spine, one small patch of soiling. Gilt titles fresh. Very nice, clean copy. BAL 7606; Peter Parley to Penrod. Item #212602 A very nice copy of Hawthorne's most famous children's book, with The Gorgon's

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