Woodberry, George E.. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Houghto, Mifflin and Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Boston, 1902.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original blue-green buckram, with printed paper spine label paste down. Large Paper edition, limited to 600 numbered copies, this being number 234. Nice frontispiece engraving of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Deckled edges. Nice condition, spine is sun faded. Complete index 302 pages.

Seller: Martin Kaukas Books, Manchester, VT, U.S.A.

Woodberry, George E.. [Binding, Fine- Unsigned] Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Houghton Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Boston, 1902.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Description: Magnificent full black crushed morocco binding probably by L. Averill Cole, a prominent binder at Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press during the period just after this book was published and distinguished by her exquisite stippled tooled bindings. This copy coming directly from a long-time employee of Houghton Mifflin who built a collection of books bound and produced at Riverside Press. A superb binding with copious stippling and winding bands, floral components and blossom motifs, both covers and spine. Magnificent full red crushed morocco doublures with lavish gilt stippled and floral patterns, wavy silk endpapers. The Large Paper Copy, Numbered 600 Copies. TEG, Near fine. A gorgeous binding, perhaps the work of one of the greatest of American women binders, Averill Cole.

Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.