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Published by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1882
Seller: Atlantic Books, Mars Hill, NC, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tight, clean binding. 218 pages.
Published by James R. Osgood & Co., NY, 1872
Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Buckram. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Bound volume #29 with 6 consecutive issues in one volume. Issues are b ound without covers and ads but are otherwise complete. Bound in black cloth with spine rebacked in greencloth tape and hand written white p ainted spine label. Tall 8vo size, 772pp. A Good copy,green cloth tape has a short tear near the base, X- Library copy with a card pocket on the rear endpaper, a small library bookplate on the front endpaper an d a small blind stamp on the title page and again on the bottom right blank margin of the last page of text. Moderate foxing & toning to the contents. Contents are tightly bound. This volume contains 6 parts of "Septimus Felton or The Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, 2 poems by Longf ellow, Whittier, W.D. Howells and more.
Published by Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1863
Seller: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Bound in brown cloth. 788 pp. No original wraps present. A bound volume of this noted magazine, featuring 'A London Suburb' and 'Recollections of a Gifted Woman' by Nathaniel Hawthorne; the poem 'Boston Hymn,' by Ralph Waldo Emerson; 'Sojourner Truth, the Lybian Sybil' by Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as work by Gail Hamilton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe and others. GOOD condition. Moderate general fading to the cloth. Cloth scuffed, with a gouge in the cloth on the rear cover. Minor soiling. Cloth scuffed, frayed and worn along the extremities. Top page edges soiled and darkened. Interior solid. Faint dampstain affecting the lower portion of most pages.
Published by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1872
Seller: sonalsorises, Los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. August, September, October, November, December 1872 bound together in one volume. Quarter leather spine and corners, cloth cover, moderately worn. Title page has a closed tear from a rought handler. Some marginal noates (neat and readable). Contains "Septimus Felton: or, The Elixir of Life, VII, VIII," a poem by Bret Harte "Half an hour before Supper." Also the life of Thomas Jefferson by James Parton. Overall very good copy.
Published by Each in original printed wrappers, January through December, 1872, 1872
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Each in original printed wrappers, January through December, 1872. Contains Hawthorne's "Septimius Felton", complete in 8 parts; Holmes' "Poet of the Breakfast Table", complete in 12 parts; Taylor's "Diversions of the Echo Club", complete in 7 parts. Generally worn at most edges and spine ends, some issues soiled, three with rear wrappers detached, but two of those are still present. Overall a Good set.
Published by John Camden Hotten,, London,, 1864
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First edition. Small 8vo. pp. 48. Contemporary green half calf marbled boards lettered gilt on spine. First published in Atlantic Monthly, July 1864, as a ÔA Scene from the Dolliver Romance. The opening section on an unfinished novel.Õ The introduction, ÔNathaniel HawthorneÕ, p. [3]-14, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, appears without his name. It is a reprint of his essay which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, July 1864 both reprinted in London by John Camden Hotten without authorization. PROVENANCE: With the tipped-in printed card of Allan H. Bright (1862-1941) British Liberal politician who had lived at Thingwall Hall in Knotty Ash, near Liverpool. His father Henry Arthur Bright (1830-1884) was an English merchant, antiquarian, renowned book collector, poet, writer on gardening, critic and publisher and a close friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne and a travelling companion when NH was based in England.Some scattered foxing, edges a little rubbed otherwise very good. Light wear otherwise very good.
Published by Boston, 1897
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st Edition. The album is divided into sections, each section devoted to one of these 6 iconic American poets & authors. First, affixed to the page, is an original silver gelatin portrait photograph of each taken at that time, except for Whittier's photo is an albumen taken at an earlier time as he had died in 1892, Lowell's is also an albumen as he died in 1891; and Holmes is also an albumen.Next isa description of their place of birth and a photograph of the home they were born in and grew up in. Some historical details are provided of what life was like when they were growing up. Next are photos of their "get-a-ways" where they did much of their writing (that were preserved as historical landmarks) and the specific poems or stories that were written there by them. There are also some details of their personal lives. Included are photographs of homes in Salem, MA, where Hawthorn grew up, that were built in the 17th C - houses of witchcraft fame - including the "House of Seven Gables"; a photo of "Custom House", Salem, where Hawthorne was appointed Collector of the Port in 1846; aphotograph of "The Old Wayside Inn", built in the late 1600s, a tavern that Longfellow made famous in his "Tales of the Wayside Inn"; a photo of Emerson's grave in "Sleepy Hollow", just a few feet away from the graves of the Alcotts, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. All-in-all, there are 32 tipped-in photographic images, both albumen & silver gelatin, one per leaf, recto only. Images preceded by a printed caption sheet. Landscape format: 7-1/4" x 8-5/8" A rare testimonial publication celebrating these 6 New England authors. not found on OCLC, nor in the NUC. No records of this book on RBH. Given the lack of any institutional record, or sales record, for this volume, we posit itâ s publication was done privately, in very limited numbers. General wear & scuffing to binding. Later poi to preliminary blank. Front hinge cracked. Withal, a Very Good copy. Photographs have aged well, generally Very Good. Period brown full leather binding, with gilt stamped title lettering to front cover, with both covers having a perimeter rule to the edges. Floral patterned-paper eps. TEG.