Famous Old People: Being the Second Epoch of Grandfather's Chair

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 158pp. 1 vols. 16mo 12 x 8 cm . Original plum cloth, embossed with a basket weave pattern. Chipped at ends of spine, a few stains to cloth; pale foxing. In unrestored, original condition. BAL 7591; Clark A7.1. Provenance: Herschel V. Jones bookplate; his sale Anderson Galleries, 20 November 1916, lot 278 . Item #319240 The second title in Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair series for children:

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