HAWTHORNE'S FIRST DIARY: WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITS DISCOVERY AND LOSS

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel T. Pickard

$50 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. Small octavo, pp. 1-2: blank i-ii iii-vi vii-x 1-115 116: printer's imprint 117-118: blank , four inserted plates with illustrations from photographs, publisher's green cloth stamped in gold, top edge gilt. First edition, first printing. Literary scholars generally consider Hawthorne's first diary to be a forgery. BAL IV,

• Printing: first

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