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Lot 25
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$768
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Lot Description
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The House of the Seven Gables. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.
8vo. 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements dated March 1851 [BAL’s printing B, no priority]. Original brown blind-embossed cloth [BAL’s binding B] (some light pale stains to covers, touch of wear to two corners and lower edge of rear board, minor pale spotting on block edges); quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. BAL 7604. A BRIGHT COPY.