Biographical Stories for Children

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, first printing, first issue. 161 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 14.5 x 9 cm . Disbound, with remains of a calf spine. A few small marginal stains, generally fine. BAL 7595; Clark A9.1.a1; Wilson I:134. Item #319243 “One of the unobtainables. Chamberlain's brought twice as much as his Scarlet Letter” Carroll Wilson . A rare Hawthorne juvenile work, framed around a blind father telling his

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