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Lot 254

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The House of the Seven Gables. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851. FIRST EDITION.
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The House of the Seven Gables. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851.  

8vo. 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements [BAL's printing A, no priority]. (First leaf of adverts adhered to front pastedown, obscuring date, small strip excised from front blank flyleaf, some browning and spotting.) Original brown blind-embossed cloth [BAL’s binding A] (leaned, a few minor tears or losses to spine, some staining). Provenance: bookplate. 

FIRST EDITION of Hawthorne's Gothic novel, inspired by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, which belonged to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll, and by Hawthorne's ancestors who were involved with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. BAL 7604.

Property From the Westland Library of the Frontier
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