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A Very Early Copy

 

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The House of  the Seven Gables, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 1st ed. 12mo. 344 pp. Orig. cloth, 3/8" at ends of spine neatly replaced with matching cloth. A bright copy with the March 1851 ads. Very clean & sound. $2,000.00

 

BAL 7604, binding A with the March 1851 catalogue, printing A. Clark A 17.1.a (first printing). One of 1690 copies printed in March and published between March 23 and  April 5, but not deposited for copyright until May 7. With an ink ownership inscription, dated April 9, 1851 (the date of the second printing).