HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Frontispiece and 6 engraved illustrations after designs by Hammat Billings. 8vo, publisher's brown-purplish cloth stamped in blind on covers, gilt-lettered on spine, slight lean, mild rubbing to extremities; Oliver Brett bookplate, contents clean; supplied cloth dust jacket and morocco-edged slipcase. first edition. Second state with p. 21 text correction. BAL 7606; Peter Parley to Penrod p. 6. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852