A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$7,500 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First Edition. First printing of 3,000 copies, with “lifed” for “lifted” on page 21, line 3, but this is no ordinary copy of the 1st printing. It’s in the publisher’s deluxe gift binding likely less than 10% of the total first printing run , easily identified by the oval design on the front cover being in gilt, but also the gilt decorations, and

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