Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.

First edition, first printing, octavo; with 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at front dated March, 1851; in BAL's binding "A": original publisher's blind-stamped ribbed brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, marbled endpapers replacing the original yellow coated (small spots and stains throughout, one gathering mis-bound; neatly rebacked with original spine preserved, endpapers renewed, only one leaf of yellow coated paper preserved after ads); 7 1/8 x 4 3/8 in.

BAL 7604; Clark A17.1a