Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth.
Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
First edition. viii, [i], [9]-140 pp. 12mo. Original bluish plum basket-weave embossed cloth, black paper label on front cover (gilt lettering oxidized to invisibility); green cloth chemise; green morocco pull of case by Bradstreet's (one joint split). BAL 7590; Clark A6.1.
Item #319139
The first of three titles in the Grandfather's Chair series for children. It was Elizabeth Palmer Peabody—the sister of Hawthorne's future wife, Sofia—who published these stories when the original publisher, Nahum Capen, withdrew.
