Hawthorne, Nathaniel

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852, wood-engraved frontispiece and 6 plates by Baker after Billings, three-unit ornament on spine, original purple cloth, bookplate, preserved in case and slipcase, lower cover nearly detached, restoration to spine (cloth slightly torn), further edge-wear; Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys; being a second Wonder-Book. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853, wood-engraved ornamental title page and 6 plates by Hammat Billings, first issue with Boston Stereotype Foundry imprint only on copyright page, inserted advertisements dated August 1853 (BAL state B), original purple cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, preserved in case and matching slipcase, minor browning, spine slightly faded, neat repairs to spine, some further minor edge wear to binding; another copy, with 8pp. publisher's catalogue inserted at the beginning (in BAL's state B, with this work described as "Just out" and listed without a price), original blue cloth, envelope addressed to the publisher William Ticknor loosely inserted (? in Hawthorne's hand), preserved in blue chemise and matching quarter blue morocco slipcase, some very occasional spotting, minor edge-wear to binding otherwise a fine copy, FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo  (3)

Tanglewood (blue cloth): Katharine de Berkeley Parsons, small armorial book-label; sale of her library, Sotheby's New York, 6 October 1976, lot 105

A Wonder Book: BAL 7606; Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod  6
Tanglewood Tales: BAL 7614, Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod 10