TRUE STORIES FROM HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv-v [vi-viii] 1-335 [336: blank] + 4-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, flyleaves at front and rear, four inserted plates, publisher's decorated red cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, cream endpapers. First combined edition, first printing, probable second state. 2000 copies printed. Collects GRANDFATHER'S CHAIR (1842), FAMOUS OLD PEOPLE (1842), LIBERTY TREE (1842) and BIOGRAPHICAL STORIES (1842). Hawthorne made minor revisions in the text for this edition. BAL 7655 (noted first [sic] impression [printing]). Clark A 12.1.a2. Attractive book label of Kevin B. MacDonnell affixed to the rear paste-down. Scattered foxing, heavy to pages 1-6, otherwise a lovely copy with very bright, unworn binding. (#178981).
Price: $500.00
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