Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. An excellent early example (published the same year as the first), Clark's fourth printing, in BAL binding E. 8vo: viii,9-344pp, p. 341 misnumbered 34. Early book plate of Douglas Frost, Jr. to front paste down. Original blind-stamped brown T cloth..... more
![Photobook] Transformation: or, The Romance of Mount Beni [The Marble Faun]. Nathaniel HAWTHORNE](/pictures/thumb/BB2253.jpeg?v=1605478143)
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. First Edition thus. Vellum. First Tauchnitz Edition (Todd & Bowden's fourth setting, impression Db), "copyright edition" on title page, of Hawthorne's Italian romance cum travel guide. Two volumes in one, thick foolscap 8vo (155 x 107mm): xii,292; vi,280,[2]pp, with 24 mounted period photographs of Roman monuments..... more
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. With a preface by Una Hawthorne. First State (Clark's First Printing, with dropped "I" in "It," l.18, p.42) of Hawthorne's final work, a gothic romance set during the Revolutionary War about a search for the elixir of life. One of only..... more
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, M DCC LII [1852, but 1851]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of the final collection of stories by Hawthorne appearing in his lifetime, printed from stereotype plates in an edition of 2425 copies. 8vo (179 x 110mm ): [4, publisher's catalog, dated January, 1852],273,[1]pp..... more
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, And Fields, MD-CCCLII [1852, but 1851]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing, one of 3,067 copies, with "lifed" for "lifted," line 3, p. 21; first issue (one of only 3067 copies printed and published November,1851), without the inserted publisher's catalogue at rear. Small 8vo: vi,[7]-256pp, with frontispiece..... more