The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851.
Price:
$2,000.00
First edition, first issue, with 4 pp. of March 1851 ads at front "Poems of Many" at p. 3 and battered type on p. 149. One of 1690 copies. vi, 344 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind, lettered in gilt (BAL Binding A, ampersand is Roman not italic. The O in CO is a Capital letter). Very good copy, head with some splits. Some foxing. BAL 7604; Clark A17.1.a (first printing); Barron, Horror Literature 2-38.
Item #320610
A handsome first edition of Hawthorne's Gothic novel, written soon after The Scarlet Letter, inspired by his cousin's gabled home in Salem, Massachusetts and their family history intwined with the Salem Witch Trials. "The book is an affliction," wrote Catharine Maria Sedgwick, "it affects one like a passage through the wards of an insane asylum." H. P. Lovecraft called it "New England's greatest contribution to weird literature."
Item #320610
A handsome first edition of Hawthorne's Gothic novel, written soon after The Scarlet Letter, inspired by his cousin's gabled home in Salem, Massachusetts and their family history intwined with the Salem Witch Trials. "The book is an affliction," wrote Catharine Maria Sedgwick, "it affects one like a passage through the wards of an insane asylum." H. P. Lovecraft called it "New England's greatest contribution to weird literature."
