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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An interesting printing of the first edition of this posthumously published Nathaniel Hawthorne work. This is a 5" by 8" brown cloth volume bearing the James R. Osgood imprint -- a departure from the more common Osgood design of green, decorated cover. This design matches the format of Houghton Mifflin collection of Hawthorne works published in the same period. Printer's credit is University Press, John Wilson and Sons, Cambridge. The book includes introductory notes by Hawthorne's son Julian and a facsimile reproduction of four manuscript pages. 368 pages, brown cloth with a leather title band on the spine. Rubbing on the title band including a spot entirely rubbed out -- otherwise a Very Good copy.
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, xiii, 368 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown with gold print. Boards in brown illustrated cloth with gold print. Fraying to spine caps and corners, cocked spine. Text block has spotting to edges and endpapers, name and date (1882) in ink on page 1, intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated with b&w facsimile of manuscript. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1371446. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Boston, MA: James R. Osgood. Good plus condition-spine darkened/No Dustjacket. 1883. Hardcover. 8vo., 368 pp. . Good plus condition-spine darkened/No Dustjacket
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL.. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883, 1883.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Aside from a small label inside the front cover and bubbling of the cover cloth, a very good copy in a custom cloth slipcase with chemise. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1883.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. BAL 7642. Primary bingind with 'JRU' at foot of spine. Octavo. Original pictoral gray cloth over boards stamped in black ink and gilt, 'edited, with preface and noted by Julian Hawthorne'. Very good, no dust jacket, spine ends and front covers bumped, spine darkened, some soiling to cloth, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. xiii, 368 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of this posthumously published novel, edited by Hawthorne's son. BAL 7642; Clark A31.1.d; Wright (III) 2606 Orginal green pictorial cloth. Spine ends worn, slightly cocked. Good plus
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$137.17 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original pictorial cloth. Rebacked with the original spine laid back. Spine cover tanned. Panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed. Bumped corners. New endpapers. Light tanning around page margins. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages; One of the three unfinished romances that were not published until after the death of Nathaniel Hawthorne. xiii, 368p., ilus., facsims.; 20cm. Genre: American literature -- Fiction -- Romance -- 19th century -- United States. Notes: 1st trade edition : Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #7642, 'trade edition'. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original pictorial cloth. Rebacked with the original spine laid back. Spine cover tanned. Panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed. Bumped corners. New endpapers. Light tanning around page margins. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages; One of the three unfinished romances that were not published until after the death of Nathaniel Hawthorne. xiii, 368p., ilus., facsims.; 20cm. Genre: American literature -- Fiction -- Romance -- 19th century -- United States. Notes: 1st trade edition : Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #7642, 'trade edition'. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Julian.. Fortune's Fool.. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883, 1883.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, 470 pp., the last leaf carries an ad for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Dr. Grimshawe's Secret" and Julian's biography of his father. Just a little rubbing, a Very Good copy.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Edited, with Preface and Notes by Julian Hawthorne. xiii, 368 pp. 8vo, original decorated green cloth. First edition. BAL 7642. Endsheets slightly foxed; light rubbing to cloth at extremities; very slightly shelf-slanted; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: xiii, 368 pp. First edition of this posthumously published novel, edited by Hawthrone's son. BAL 7642; Clark A31.1.d; Wright (III) 2606 Bound by STIKEMAN & CO. in three quarter blue morocco, richly gilt spines, raised bands, t.e.g., with original green pictorial cloth binding bound in at back. From the library of Agnes Neustadt, with her bookplate. About fine, minor rubbing
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: xiii, 368 pp. Hawthorne wrote Doctor Grimshawes Secret in 1861, but henever considered the work finished and did not publish it in his lifetime. His son Julian published it in 1883, It has more autobiographical material than any other work including the character Dr. Grimshawe based on his actual grim guardian. BAL 7642; Clark A31.1.d; Wright (III) 2606` Three quarters green and green green cloth, t.e.g. Very Good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. DOCTOR GRIMSHAWE'S SECRET. BOSTON JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY PUB 1883., 1883.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: VG+. EDITED WITH PREFACE AND NOTES BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE BOOK HAS A TRACE OF RUB AT THE CORNERS WITH LIGHT WEAR AND BREAKS IN THE CLOTH AT THE SPINE-ENDS, A VERY ATTRACTIVE ARTS AND CRAFT MOVEMENT BOOKPLATE ON THE FRONT PASTEDOWN, GILT TITLES A BIT DULLED ON THE SPINE AND BRIGHT ON THE FRONT COVER, AND LIGHT RUB BALLOONING OF THE WONDERFULLY DECORATED CLOTH COVERED BOARDS THAT IS ALMOST ALWAYS ENCOUNTERED WITH THIS BOOK. AN EXCELLENT COPY. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 368pp.; HB palegray w/label; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; heavy sun on spine&edges w/label tanned; bookplate; clean,tight pgs. Label reads: "Hawthorne's Works Large Paper Illustrated with Etchings" "Two Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed. No.169" Copy of poet Witter Bynner (w/bookplate). Inscribed to Bynner's father by publisher, Ticknor.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Large Paper copy, no. 109 of 250 copies. Frontispiece and vignette title leaf, inserted four-page facsimile manuscript, vignette title leaf printed in red, brown and black. 368 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo. BAL 7642; Clark A31.1.d; Wright (III) 2606 Bound by STIKEMAN & CO. in three quarter blue morocco, richly gilt spines, raised bands, t.e.g. From the library of Agnes Neustadt, with her bookplate. About fine Frontispiece and vignette title leaf, inserted four-page facsimile manuscript, vignette title leaf printed in red, brown and black. 368 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo First edition, Large Paper copy, no. 109 of 250 copies.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Large octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-xiii [xiv] 1-368 [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece and vignette title leaf, inserted four-page facsimile manuscript, vignette title leaf printed in red, brown and black, original gray boards, printed paper label affixed spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition, (large paper) fourth printing. 270 copies printed on handmade laid paper of which 250 were numbered and bound. According to the publisher's records, this edition was not printed until 29 September 1883, about ten months after the first printing of the trade edition. Hawthorne's portrayal of the archetypal mad/bad scientist/alchemist gives a minor SF theme to this romance. Reginald 06952. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). BAL 7642. Clark A31.1.d. Wright (III) 2606. A fine copy in a torn and taped printed dust jacket. Rare in jacket. (#107424)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.