Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$488.00 + shipping
Description: Book has owners signature, foxed endpapers, replaced spine label, cover label is chipped, modest cover wear thus near very good.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Faded brown cloth, patterned. Unusual rectangular label on the front cover (see the photos in other listings) present and complete (without chipping). The original gold lettering on the paper label has all but worn off -- it can be picked up slightly, along with a decorative border. It was common even before the 1900s for the label to be worn. 158 pages. Quite a small book; only 3.5 x 5 inches. Binding tight, pages clean (very minimal foxing). Hawthorne's third book, written when he was still in his 30's. Please email with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITIONS. There is some fading to the cloth, the label is absent on the first volume, chipped and illegible on the second. There is a stain on the first page of the preface of the second volume. Good to Very Good copies of these increasingly uncommon Hawthorne items. Clark A 6.1, A 7.1. BAL 7590,7591
Seller: Clarel Rare Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1045.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes of children's stories on American history from the Puritans to the American Revolution, by the author of 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of the Seven Gables'. 32mo, in original diced brown cloth with black paper label on front boards (blank). Housed in a sleeve in green gilt morocco box. Grandfather's Chair: 1st Edition, 16mo, vii, [1 (blank)], 140 pp. 16mo. 5 1/4" x 3-1/2". (BAL7590; Clark A6.1). Famous Old People: 1st Edition vii, [1 (blank)], 158, [2 (blank)] pp. 16mo, 3 3/8x5". (BAL7591; Clark A7.1). Overall, text is extremely clean. Covers of both volumes slt rubbed, corners rubbed on G.C.; 2 small marks on spine & traces of a glue repair at inner hinge of F.O.P, title labels very slt chipped at right edges. Very pleasant contemporary copies in a handsome dark green morocco spined slipcase.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: All three of Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair books for children, all first editions. The first volume very good, with 1841 gift inscription on blank page "Henry L. Abbot, from his Father, August 13, 1841." General Henry Larcom Abbot up to be a distinguished Civil War Brevet Major General. Below the 1841 inscription is a 1913 inscription by the general's daughter, Eleanor Abbot. Famous Old People with chipped label and wrinkle and water mark to cover, but internally quite nice. Liberty Tree - the scarcest of the three - with expert repair to cloth at front joint, and penciled 1841 inscription to front endpaper. A rare set, seldom found together.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 158pp. 1 vols. 16mo (12 x 8 cm). First edition. The second title in Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair series for children: stories on American history from the Puritans to the American Revolution. Apparently a variant binding, as BAL and Clark both describe the basket weave embossing on slate cloth, and all copies as having a black paper label on the front cover. There is no evidence that a label was ever present on this copy. Very scarce. BAL 7591; Clark A7.1. Provenance: Herschel V. Jones (bookplate; his sale Anderson Galleries, 20 November 1916, lot 278) Original plum cloth, embossed with a basket weave pattern. Chipped at ends of spine, a few stains to cloth; pale foxing. In unrestored, original condition 158pp. 1 vols. 16mo (12 x 8 cm)
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Grandfather's Chair. , 1841.
Price: US$3300.00 + shipping
Description: HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth. Original cloth, printed paper label on front board, housed in custom cloth slipcase. Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. [with] Famous Old People: Being the Second Epoch of Grandfather's Chair. Original cloth, printed paper label on front board, housed in custom cloth slipcase. Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. [with] Liberty Tree: With the Last Words of Grandfather's Chair. Original cloth, printed paper label on front board, housed in custom 1/2-black morocco slipcase with inner cloth chemise. Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. 3 Vols. 16mos. First editions. BAL 7590, 7591, 7592. Liberty Tree is BAL Printing A with all points. Light scattered foxing, else a very good or better set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth. E.P. Peabody, Boston, 1841.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. viii, [i], [9]-140 pp. 12mo. Peirce Family Copies. [Boxed with:] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Famous Old People: Being the Second Epoch of Grandfather's Chair. vii, [i], [9]-158 pp. Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. Publisher's light brown cloth, printed black title label on front cover (gilt titling mostly worn away). A few stains to covers, overopened at title-page, foxing rear endpapers removed. Bookplate of Agnes Neustadt. BAL 7591; Clark A7.1. Both volumes with contemporary gift inscriptions to James Mills Peirce (1834-1906), later a mathematician who, like his father Benjamin Peirce, taught at Harvard. The elder Peirce inscribed Grandfather's Chair to his son; while James later gave Famous Old People to his younger brother Charles: "Master Charles Peirce from his brother." This is of course Charles Peirce (1839-1914), the philosopher, logician, and founder of pragmatism. BAL 7590; Clark A6.1 Publisher's blue-gray cloth, printed black title label on front cover (gilt titling mostly worn away). Tear to cloth at head of spine, rear free endpaper removed. Peirce family biographical material tipped in at front. Bookplate of Agnes Neustadt. In a custom blue morocco pull-off box by Stikemen
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.