Hawthorne, Nathaniel

8vo (187 x 128mm.), first edition in cloth with the two parts in one volume, with the imprints of T.B. Smith and R. Craighead both present on versos of the two title pages (thus conforming to the earliest printing states, see BAL), decorated endpapers, original purple-brown cloth decorated in blind, preserved in cloth case and matching slipcase, very minor occasional spotting, repairs to spine ends and joints and corners of covers, covers slightly faded, particularly on spine 

BAL 7598; Clark A15.1.1.a and A15.1.b

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This is Hawthorne's second major collection of short stories and was published as numbers XVII and XVIII of Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books.