Septimus Felton; or the elixir of life

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$250 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. 8vo. iv , 229 pp., plus leaf of publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher’s decorated cloth, author and title in gilt on front cover and spine; final fly-leaf torn out, otherwise an excellent copy. Item #18256 First edition. Hawthorne’s last story, an unfinished manuscript about the search for the elixir of

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