The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, first issue, with 4 pp. of March 1851 ads at front Poems of Many at p. 3 and battered type on p. 149. One of 1690 copies. vi, 344 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind, lettered in gilt BAL Binding A, ampersand is Roman not italic. The O in CO is a Capital letter . Very good copy, head with some splits. Some foxing. BAL 7604; Clark A17.1.a first printing ; Barron, Horror Literature 2-38.

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