HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The House of Seven Gables, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields 1851. 8vo, original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, both BAL's and Clark's Binding A (no priority), 4-page publisher's catalogue dated March 1851 at front (BAL's Printing B -- no priority), with a comma present after "solitude" on p. 343, line 31. BAL 7604; Clark A17.1.a. IN SUPERB CONDITION.

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HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The House of Seven Gables, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields 1851. 8vo, original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, both BAL's and Clark's Binding A (no priority), 4-page publisher's catalogue dated March 1851 at front (BAL's Printing B -- no priority), with a comma present after "solitude" on p. 343, line 31. BAL 7604; Clark A17.1.a. IN SUPERB CONDITION.

Provenance: T. Niles, Jr., with signature in pencil at top of title-page. H. Bradley Martin, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, 30 January 1990, lot 2068).