The Blithedale Romance
by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
First
Price: $300.00- Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 314618
- Edition: First
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 1852
Book Description
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. 1852. First. First American edition, later printing. Binding with "CO" on spine and copyright information on title page verso set between lines two and four of the preface. Contains advertisements undated in rear. Preface dated May 1852. Brown cloth cover blind stamped on boards, gilt lettering on spine. Owner's inscription on preliminary page, cover edges are severely worn, loss to the spine ends with a one inch chip towards the tail, thus good only. Fiction yet based on memories Hawthorne had of Brook Farm while staying there in the year of 1841. .
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