Hawthorne, Nathaniel | First edition of Hawthorne's famed gothic novel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of Seven Gables, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851
8vo. Publisher's 4-page advertisement at front dated March 1851 (BAL "A" issue); some scattered foxing and staining. Publisher's brown T-cloth, covers decoratively ruled and tooled in blind, spine gilt-lettered, yellow coated endpapers; extremities rubbed with some fraying and short splits to head and tail of spine, a few instances of staining, slightly cocked. Half morocco slipcase.
First edition, first printing.
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
Hawthorne's famed gothic novel, which influenced H.P. Lovecraft's later stories of a cursed New England, is a weaving tale of a declining family trapped amid the haunted architecture of their dilapidated home.
REFERENCE
BAL 7604; Barron, Horror Literature 2-38; Clark A17.1.a
PROVENANCE
Lizzie March Newton (signature to front pastedown)
Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of Seven Gables, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851
8vo. Publisher's 4-page advertisement at front dated March 1851 (BAL "A" issue); some scattered foxing and staining. Publisher's brown T-cloth, covers decoratively ruled and tooled in blind, spine gilt-lettered, yellow coated endpapers; extremities rubbed with some fraying and short splits to head and tail of spine, a few instances of staining, slightly cocked. Half morocco slipcase.
First edition, first printing.
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
Hawthorne's famed gothic novel, which influenced H.P. Lovecraft's later stories of a cursed New England, is a weaving tale of a declining family trapped amid the haunted architecture of their dilapidated home.
REFERENCE
BAL 7604; Barron, Horror Literature 2-38; Clark A17.1.a
PROVENANCE
Lizzie March Newton (signature to front pastedown)
Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.