Septimus Felton; or the elixir of life

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher’s decorated cloth, author and title in gilt on front cover and spine; final fly-leaf torn out, otherwise an excellent copy. First edition. Hawthorne’s last story, an unfinished manuscript about the search for the elixir of life which was found by his wife posthumously. After she passed away the work was transcribed by her daughters with few revisions. A story of love, honor and revenge, as all good literature used to be!

BAL, 7638.