Lot 80
  • 80

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852
  • printed book
8vo (168 x 112mm.), first edition, first issue, wood-engraved frontispiece and 6 plates after Burrill Billings by Baker (with tissue-guards), publisher's green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers decorated in blind, yellow endpapers, green buckram slipcase, occasional spotting or soiling, tissue-guards with folds and tears, binding with some rubbing, spine ends a worn, upper joint of spine repaired.

Provenance

Martha C. Lewis, gift inscription from her uncle, 25 December 1851/1 January 1852

Literature

BAL 7606; Peter Parley to Penrod 6

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate.
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