TRUE STORIES FROM HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$500 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. Octavo, pp. i-iii iv-v vi-viii 1-335 336: blank + 4-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, flyleaves at front and rear, four inserted plates, publisher's decorated red cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, cream endpapers. First combined edition, first printing, probable second state. 2000 copies printed. Collects

• Printing: first

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