first edition
1852 · Boston
by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First American Edition. First printing, with the copyright notices lower on the page, and the capital O in the spine imprint. Brown cloth stamped in blind, titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; [i]-viii [9]-288pp; 4pp publisher's catalogue dated April 1852 laid in at front. Ownership inscription of Cornelia S. Ten-Broek, August 1852, to f.f.e.p. Sound with general moderate wear to edges and joints, scattered small internal stains: around Very Good.
Earliest US printing of Hawthorne's novel based on his experiences at Brook Farm, a transcendentalist "community of utopian idealists near Boston" (ANB). Preceded by the British edition. CLARK A20.2.a. BAL 7611, Binding A (with capital O and April ads). (Inventory #: 60204)
Earliest US printing of Hawthorne's novel based on his experiences at Brook Farm, a transcendentalist "community of utopian idealists near Boston" (ANB). Preceded by the British edition. CLARK A20.2.a. BAL 7611, Binding A (with capital O and April ads). (Inventory #: 60204)
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