Hawthorne Rarity
Biographical Stories for Children.
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842.
Price: $2,000.00
About the item
First edition, first printing, first issue. 161 pp. 1 vols. 12mo (14.5 x 9 cm). Disbound, with remains of a calf spine. A few small marginal stains, generally fine. BAL 7595; Clark A9.1.a1; Wilson I:134.
Item #319243
“One of the unobtainables. Chamberlain's brought twice as much as his Scarlet Letter” (Carroll Wilson).
A rare Hawthorne juvenile work, framed around a blind father telling his son stories about the boyhood lives of Benjamin West, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Cromwell, Benjamin Franklin, and Queen Christina.
