Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842. 12mo (14.5 x 9 cm). 160 pages. Disbound, with calf spine. FIRST EDITION, first printing, first issue. "One of the unobtainables. Chamberlain's brought twice as much as his Scarlet Letter" (Carroll Wilson). A rare Hawthorne juvenile work, framed around a blind father telling his son.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo. Original embossed brown cloth. Very slightly cocked, minor wear [with some loss] to the heel and crown of spine, and minor browning and foxing throughout else a very good copy. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing. First binding with "CO" on spine and copyright.....
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12 x 8 cm) 158 pages. Original plum cloth, embossed with a basket weave pattern. Provenance: Herschel V. Jones (bookplate; his sale Anderson Galleries, 20 November 1916, lot 278). FIRST EDITION. The second title in Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair series for children: stories on American.....
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12.4 x 7.8 cm). vii, 140 pages. Original bluish plum basket-weave embossed cloth, black paper label on front cover (gilt lettering oxidized to invisibility); green cloth chemise; green morocco pull of case by Bradstreet's (one joint split). FIRST EDITION of the first of three.....
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm). 139 pages, 5-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece, one full-page illustration in text. Original brown ribbed cloth, covers blindstamped with a floral frame, gilt chair at center of front cover, gilt-lettered on spine, cream coated endpapers. Provenance: William Harvey (booklabel). Second.....
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12.4 x 7.8 cm). vii, 140 pages. Original bluish plum basket-weave embossed cloth, black paper label on front cover (gilt lettering faded but readable); green cloth chemise; green morocco pull of case by Bradstreet's (one joint split). FIRST EDITION of the first of three.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). [viii], 344 pages. 4-page advertisements inserted between front endpapers. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Christmas 1853 gift ink inscription from B. Frost to his niece Mary B. S. Fuller on front flyleaf. FIRST EDITION, fifth printing.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1852. 12mo (18 x 11.3 cm). 144 pages. 4-page advertisements dated July 1852 inserted between front endpages. Frontispiece with tissue guard (foxed). Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, with the earliest ads and in BAL's earliest state of the binding. Hawthorne and Pierce were.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Two volumes, 12mo (18.2 x 11.5 cm). Half-titles, 16-page advertisements dated March 1860 at end of vol. 1. Original brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spines. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second printing. BAL 7621; Clark A23.3.b.
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.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo (17.9 x 10.8 cm). 273 pages, 4-page advertisements dated January 1852 inserted before front endpapers. Original brown ribbed blind embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Though the US and UK editions were intended for simultaneous publication, the American publication probably.....
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.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 12mo. 343 pages. Frontispiece (tissue guard torn), three plates after Hammat Billings. Original cloth, decorative stamp embossed, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, BAL's third impression (entirely reset according to BAL). "Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral metaphors with.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 12mo (16.5 x 9.8 cm). viii, 335 pages. 4-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece and three plates. Original red blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, only printing, BAL's first impression, which Clark calls "probable second state" of the preface. Collects Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old.....
New York & London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. 8vo (19 x 12.3 cm). [i]-viii, [v]-vi, 179 pages. Complete with half-title and 16-page advertisements at end. Early 20th-century brown half morocco, marbled boards, by the Club Bindery, original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: Edwin B. Holden (bookplate; his sale American Art.....