Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Hawthorne's famed gothic novel

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The House of Seven Gables. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields. 1851.

12mo (179 x 115 mm). Hinges weak, but internally quite clean and unspotted. Original brown cloth ruled and decorated in blind; corners bumped, some wear at ends. Half morocco slipcase.

First edition of Hawthorne's famed gothic novel, an influence on H.P. Lovecraft's later tales of a cursed New England, a weaving tale of a declining family trapped amid the haunted architecture of their dilapidated home.

REFERENCE

BAL 7604; Barron, Horror Literature 2-38