The Blithedale Romance
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo (18.3 x 11 cm). vii, 288 pages. 12-page advertisements at end. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 7611; Clark A20.2.a.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo (18.3 x 11 cm). vii, 288 pages. 12-page advertisements at end. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 7611; Clark A20.2.a.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. 8vo. 398 pages. Brown cloth with stamp embossed decoration. FIRST EDITION, second state with not printed on the advertisement leaf. Typo on page 145, where "mysterious" is printed as "myterious." Dedicated to Hawthorne's college friend, Franklin Pierce, who ultimately became 14th president of the United.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). xi, 398 pages. Half-title, 1-page advertisements at end. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing, with ads at end. BAL 7626; Clark A24.1.a.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. 8vo (17.5 x 11 cm). 229 pages. Half-title, 1-page advertisements at end. Original green decorated cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first issue with "t" for "It" on page 42, line 18. BAL 7638; Clark A29.2.a.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. Two volumes bound in one, small 8vo (6 x 4 inches). xii, 292; vi, 280, [1] pages. Contemporary vellum, smooth spine richly gilt, red and black morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endleaves, silk page marker, binder's note in manuscript on slip bound in after title. Copyright edition of.....