Biographical Stories for Children
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.....