$189
Estimate: $300 - $500
A Fine Collection of American Literature and History
Auction: June 8, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First edition, second printing (with reset type in right margin of line 1-3, p. 149, and with misprint in line 25 of pp. 50 and 278). 8vo. 344 pp. Publisher's brown cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, recased; all edges trimmed; endpapers renewed; in full red levant lift-off case. BAL 7604; Clark A17.1b (binding B or E; this copy without ads)
First edition of Hawthorne's famed Gothic novel.