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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Female Provenance: Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865) Her Annotated Copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1851.
First edition, later issue, octavo, with advertisements dated May 1851, with misprints on line 25 of page 50: "apparen"; and line 25 of page 278 "o"; and the page number on 341 without the final number; with Bremer's ownership inscription to first page of ads and marginal notes on pages forty-one, 203-206, and 230; bound in full publisher's brown cloth tooled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
"Hawthorne is one of the youngest prose writers of North America, who has already won great renown. His works have been sent to me by some anonymous female friend, whom I hope yet to discover, that I may thank her. He treats national subjects with great earnestness and freshness; and that mystical, gloomy sentiment which permeates his pictures, like a nocturnal sky dotted with stars, exercises a magic influence on the mind of the New World, perhaps because it is so unlike their everyday life." (Quoted from America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer, ed. Carrie Catt, Applewood Books, 2007.)
