Apr 20, 2006 - Sale 2075

Sale 2075 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 11,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
FIRST NOVEL, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS [HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL.] Fanshawe, A Tale. [1]-141, [3], [2]. 12mo, original brown boards, purple muslin spine with paper spine label, overall soiling with 2-inch circular mark on front cover, spine color faded, label chipped; front free endpaper missing, hinge cracked, dark dampstain affecting top third of first three signatures, then gradually fading through signature 5 (ending page 60). Boston: Marsh & Capen, 1828

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first edition of hawthorne's first book