New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. First Edition. Contemporaneous half leather over marbled boards. Octavo. i[v], [1]-207 [208]; [iv], [1]-211 [212] pages. A handsome copy of the first edition of Hawthorne's fabulous story collection written while he resided in Emerson's property--the Old Manse--in Concord, Massachusetts. This is the first appearance..... More
New York: Random House Inc., 1928. Limited edition, copy #186 of 980. Colored wood block illustrations designed and engraved by Valenti Angelo. Cloth over boards with leather spine. Quarto. [viii], 363 pages. A lovely limited edition of Hawthorne's most famous book, in which Hester Prynne, condemned by her Puritan New..... More
Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 334 pages (with 4 pages ads at front, 12 pages ads at back). Hawthorne's third publication in book form and the first to bear his name. This collection of 18 stories won immediate recognition for its author, though..... More