Sold by Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since June 24, 2002
Seller rating 2 out of 5 stars
First Edition, First Printing. Original publisher s brown embossed cloth, gilt lettering on spine, re-backed with original spine. One of 1690 copies, printed in April, 1851, with the original 3pp first state ads dated March, 1851in the front. "The House of Seven Gables," one of Hawthorne s most renowned works, was an extended description of houses and households from many of his sketches, and hearkening back to the household of his youth, and (per DAB), [the house] withdrawn, solitary, declining, haunted by an ancestral curse. With "The House of Seven Gables" Hawthorne said farewell to the Salem in which he had grown up." The scarce first issue with type battered on page 149; publisher s name gilt-stamped on spine (BAL binding A), ad catalogue dated March, 1851, and necessarily being bound between front endpapers. With pencil signature of J.H. Morison (John Hopkins Morison) a contemporary of Hawthorne, and passed down to his son, who has inscribed: "Robert S. Morison from his father s library, 1899." Housed in brown cloth chemise and matching morocco-backed (black) cloth slipcase. Book is remarkably preserved with covers clean and bright, internally minimal signs of wear and no foxing.
Seller Inventory # 6112
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