Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 472

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys; Being a Second Wonder-Book. Wood-engraved ornamental title page and 6 plates by Hammatt Billings. 8vo, original brown cloth decorated in blind on covers and gilt on the spine, spine faded, few light soil marks. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853
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first edition, early issue with imprint of Boston Stereotype Foundry only on copyright page, 8 pp. publisher's catalogue inserted at the beginning, in BAL's state B, with this work described as "Just out" and listed without a price. BAL 7614; Peter Parley to Penrod p. 10; Grolier American 44.