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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. House of the Seven Gables, The. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851.

Price: US$74.95 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: US orders ship with signature confirmation. 1st edition (not 1st printing) with ads in front dated Mar 1852, "t" missing on "apparent" on page 50, "r" missing on "or" on page 278, lettering unbattered on page 149. Outer layer of spine missing, spine tilted, edges frayed, corners bumped, owner's info on ffep, title page, and back pastedown, with next owner's info also on title page, every page tanned and foxed, for all that, still quite readable.

Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, A ROMANCE. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping on the spine measuring 7 1/2 x 5 inches. Covers show scuffing, edge-wear, and chipping to the joints, corners, and spine-ends and hinges are cracked with text-block is beginning to loosen/separate. Contents are bright and clean, but with light scattered toning/foxing. First Edition, with March 1851 ads, Binding "B" per BAL. Spine shows evidence of early restoration. There is no battered type on pg. 149.

Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, A ROMANCE. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping on the spine. The covers show scuffing, edge-wear, and chipping to the joints, corners, and spine-ends. The hinges are cracked, and the text-block is beginning to loosen/separate at a few spots. The contents are bright and clean, but with light scattered toning/foxing. First Edition, with March 1851 ads, Binding "B" per BAL. Spine shows evidence of early restoration. There is no battered type on pg. 149.

Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor & Fields, 1851.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: Small chips missing from spine cloth & edges of boards; good. 1851 [MDCCCLI] date on title page, 4-page catalog dated March, 1851. Owner's small signature in pencil on first page of catalog, early card of Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston laid in.

Seller: Mystery Cove Book Shop, Hulls Cove, ME, U.S.A.

Nathaniel Hawthorne. The House of Seven Gables A Romance. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields,, Boston:, 1851.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: 4th or 5th Printing Very good in its original, brown, ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine, blind stamped boards and light yellow end sheets. A 12mo measuring 7 1/8 by 4 3/8 inches containing 344 pages of text with the publisher's four page catalog dated March, 1851 inserted inside of the front end sheets. The upper 1/4 inch of the cloth at the head of the spine is missing exposing the top edge of the text block. The lower 1 1/2 inch of the first page of the catalog has been torn out. On the first free end page an early prior owner's name appears in ink in a tiny, delicate hand and again in pencil, more boldly, on the title page and a third time on the rear end sheet. On the verso of the last free end page the prior owner penciled in a two line quotation from the book and started a sketch of a woman's head. The pages of the text are free of tanning, but exhibit spots of foxing throughout. This is either a forth or fifth printing of the first edition, with the letter "t" missing on line 25 of page 50 and the and the letter "r" missing on the 25th line of page 278. One of Hawthorne's most famous novels and considered a classic of early American literature. Hawthorne believed this to be his best work, even better than his more famous The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne considered this title to be his best novel. (BAL 7604; Bruccoli/Clark - p. 172)

Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. True Stories from History and Biography. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing. Publisher's green boards with design in blind to covers, titles in gilt to spine, light yellow endpapers. A very good copy with some rubbing to covers, wear to spine ends, light rubbing and dimming to gilt, inner hinges repaired with endpapers laid back down, closed 2-inch vertical tear along rear outer hinge with glue repair, light soiling to endpapers, and some spotting to title page and throughout. Overall, a solid copy in the original cloth. BAL 7655. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase with folding chemise. True Stories from History and Biography was written by Hawthorne as a means of educating the youth on notable events and figures in American history. In the main story, "The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair," an old man tells his grandchildren the long and winding history of his "strange-looking old chair," which dates back to the Puritans' arrival on Plymouth Rock. In the "Biographical Stories" section of the book, Hawthorne tells engaging tales about some of the most famous British and early American figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Cromwell, and Sir Isaac Newton, devoting considerable portions of these stories to their childhood days. While this book is somewhat of a departure from Hawthorne's adult classics, like The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of Seven Gables (1851), it has Hawthorne's trademarks of history, moral instruction, and pristine prose.

Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A pretty solid example of the Original 1851 Edition. Brown decorated cloth with gilt spine lettering. Binding either Blanck 'A' or 'B'. The inserted at the front publisher's catalog is 4 pages in length, dated March, 1851 and in the 2nd State. No battered type at page 149. Lacking the 't' on page 50 and the 'r' on page 278. Bookplate. Modest wear to the covers and some foxing to the text but overall a solid and attractive example with no major flaws. A better-than-average copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages

Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo (18 x 11 cm). [viii], 344 pages. 4-page advertisements inserted between front endpapers. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Christmas 1853 gift ink inscription from B. Frost to his niece Mary B. S. Fuller on front flyleaf. FIRST EDITION, fifth printing, with Clark's textual points. BAL 7604; Clark A17.1.e. Losses at ends of spine, corners lightly worn, a few stains

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, [i-viii], [9]-344 pages. In Good minus condition. Rebound in brown cloth with gilt text on spine. Boards have slight fraying to spine edges and mild edge wear and shelf wear. Text block has damp staining throughout, splitting to gutter between pages 2 and 3 of catalog and partial splitting to rear interior hinge. Catalog in front dated March 1851. BAL 7604, Unable to determine which of first four printings. Shelved in Case 2. 1371825. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Nathaniel Hawthorne. True Stories from History and biography. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$525.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. First issue, first printing. first state with all points with the frontis and the engravings in the Original Publisher's gilt pictorial red cloth , titles in gilt to spine, light yellow endpapers. A very good copy slight rubbing to edges a deluxe copy with all edges gilt . Overall, a solid copy in the original cloth. BAL 7655. True Stories from History and Biography was written by Hawthorne as a means of educating the youth on notable events and figures in American history. In the main story, "The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair," an old man tells his grandchildren the long and winding history of his "strange-looking old chair," which dates back to the Puritans' arrival on Plymouth Rock. In the "Biographical Stories" section of the book, Hawthorne tells engaging tales about some of the most famous British and early American figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Cromwell, and Sir Isaac Newton, devoting considerable portions of these stories to their childhood days. While this book is somewhat of a departure from Hawthorne's adult classics, like The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of Seven Gables (1851), it has Hawthorne's trademarks of history, moral instruction, and pristine prose. This rare copy is housed in a later mylar clear jacket and its gilt red spine is still bright. A pretty copy rare thus

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields: Boston, 1851.

Price: US$569.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 7 x 4.5", rebound 1/2 black leather, marbled boards, gilt spine lettering, replacement endpapers, vi, 344. Leather on spine cracking, spine tips have minor chipping, light edge wear, small abrasion on front pastedown, very occasional light foxing else very good condition. FIRST EDITION, later issue, no ads.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$710.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: BC03A Several small chips to finish near top of spine. Bookplate and several names and ownership markings to endpapers. Ads dated May 1851. The 't' on line 25 of page 50 is missing from apparent. The 'r' from or is missing from line 25 of page 278. Type not battered on p. 149. Original brown cloth with gilt titles and yellow endpapers.

Seller: Earl The Pearls, Edmond, OK, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of The Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo (18 x 11 cm). 344 pp. Brown cloth publisher's binding with blind stamping to covers and spine. Gilt titles to spine. 1 cm missing to head/tail of repaired/reattached spine. Corners rubbed. Four page publisher catalogue dated March 1851. Signature of PO (B. Verplanck) to head of title page, pencil notation of same to rear paste-down endpaper. BAL 7604; Clark A17.1.b.

Seller: Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA, Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.

Nathaniel Hawthorne. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, first state with broken type on page 149, lines 1-3. BAL binding A with publisher's name on gilt stamped on spine. Lacking ads. Measuring approximately 7.25" x 5" with 344 numbered pages. This book is in poor condition. Spine separated at rear gutter. Rear board nearly detached and hanging on by a thread. Moderate chipping to both ends of spine and on all corners of boards. Previous owner's signature and date on front endpaper. Interior pages are clean. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (L4-6). BAL binding A with publisher's name on gilt stamped on spine

Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, A ROMANCE. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: vi,[2],[9]-344pp. Original brown ribbed cloth, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. Inserted catalogue dated Oct. 1851. Spine ends a bit chipped, some patches of fraying along upper joint and foretips worn, occasional light marginal spotting; a good, sound copy. First edition, Clark's fourth printing, BAL's binding D. The first five printings were dated 1851 on the title-page, and totaled 7710 copies between them. The sheets are distinguished chiefly by subtleties of type wear and alignment. BAL 7604. CLARK A17.1.d. WRIGHT II:1135.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo, original brown blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt; light yellow end-papers. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851. First Edition. The book has been re-cased, with the original spine laid down. The front free end-leaf has been replaced and taped in, and many of the pages are lightly dampstained in the lower corners. The 4 pages of ads are dated March, 1851.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Hawthorne Nathaniel. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, A Romance. Boston Ticknor, Reed and Fields 1851, 1851.

Price: US$962.50 + shipping

Description: First Edition, one of 1000 copies of the September (4th) issue. 8vo, in the original Ticknor’s style A ribbed brown cloth, decorated in blind on both covers, the spine lettered in gilt with bands in blind, variant E, no priority assigned. vi, [3], 10 - 344 pp. A very attractive and well preserved copy, expertly restored at the spine but retaining nearly all of the original gilt decorated cloth, the text is very clean and fresh for the title, only a few incidents of foxing and with very little evidence of use. One of Hawthorne's most popular books and A central classics of nineteenth-century American literature, AND ARGUABLY THE QUINTESSENTIAL OF AMERICAN GOTHIC. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES is a pillar of American Renaissance literature, and was a major influence on later authors of both the horror and mystery genres, in fact it continues to be influential even today. Written during the most lucrative period of the author's career, the novel centers on a New England family and their ancestral home. The setting was inspired by the Turner-Inglersoll Mansion, a dark and rather moody gabled house in Salem, Massachusetts which still stands today and offers very popular tours. While set in Hawthorne's time, the novel searches history and reaches back to discern the life that occurred through the years. The house, in Hawthorne's tales is presented as a gloomy mansion, haunted since its construction by unscrupulous dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and death. The House of the Seven Gables was released in April of 1851. Two printings were issued in the first month, a third in May, and a fourth in September 1851; totaling 6,710 copies in its first year. Hawthorne earned 15% in royalties from the $1.00 cover price. After its publication, Hawthorne said, "It sold finely and seems to have pleased a good many people." His friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called it "a weird, wild book" and it met with extreme popularity not only in America, but also in England where it was viewed as kin to Jane Eyre. British critic Henry Chorley noted that, with THE SCARLET LETTER and THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, "few will dispute [Hawthorne's] claim to rank amongst the most original and complete novelists that have appeared in modern times."

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, first issue; Original blind stamped brown ribbed cloth. Gilt lettering. Ads dated March 1851 (state A of the ads with the last entry on p.3 "The Poems of.", broken type on page 149. lines 1 - 3. Very nicely rebacked, some foxing, as usual. A better than average copy of a book considered by many to be Hawthorne's best and unquestionably one of the greatest American Gothics. Free shipping and insurance via FEDEX.

Seller: Michael Grano, Seaside, OR, U.S.A.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, original brown blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, worn at the extremes; light yellow end-papers. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851. First Edition. 4 page catalog, dated March, 1851 inserted between the front end-papers. Ownership inscriptions on title page, end-leaves and catalog.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.. THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES.. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields: Boston., 1851.

Price: US$1437.50 + shipping

Description: 7.5 x 5, blindstamped brown cloth w/ gilt lettering on spine, 344 pp w/4 pp of advertisements bound in between front endpapers. Covers well worn, rubbed, spotted, light staining, shelfworn, corners bumped and worn, spine cocked and tips bumped and torn/frayed, fabric on rear cover near spine torn and board a little bumped, inner hinges tender, rear inner hinge cracked, pencil name, scattered spotting, text block cracked, a few loose signatures else contents good. The last letters "t" and "h" of the last words in lines 1 and 2 on page 149 are not complete. FIRST ED, FIRST STATE. Ads dated March 1851.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$1650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth stamped in blind, lettered in gilt on spine. BAL's binding A, with publisher's catalogue dated March 1851 in state A. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and spotted, chipped at the spine ends. Previous owner bookplates and details to front paste down. Pages heavily foxed, rear free end paper is lacking, as is a piece from the bottom corner of the rear blank. BAL 7604.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$1800.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, third issue, one of 2051 copies thus (BAL). Octavo. 344pp., with a four-page publisher's catalogue dated May, 1851 inserted at the front. Publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in blind on both covers, gilt spine, cream-yellow endpapers. Binder's ticket: "From D. Bugbee's Bookstore and Bindery," and contemporary owner's name in ink on front pastedown. A few tiny nicks at head and tail of spine and corner tips, spine gilt lightly faded, near fine. Along with *The Scarlet Letter*, one of Hawthorne's two great novels, this one more an extension of his classic, allegorical short fiction, based on a curse supposedly set on Hawthorne's own family during the infamous Salem witchcraft trials. An unusually fine and bright, unrestored copy. *BAL* 7604.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, re-bound in full dark green crushed morocco, leather dentelles, raised bands. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851. First Edition. Some of the margins are lightly water-stained. Bound without the ads.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, A ROMANCE. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: vi,[2],[9]-344pp. Original brown ribbed cloth, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. Inserted catalogue dated Oct. 1851. Spine ends somewhat frayed, with a narrow .5 inch snag at the crown of the upper joint, the foretips are a bit bumped and worn, a small, early and somewhat faded ink name appears on the front pastedown, a few light spots to the cloth (the most visible being a couple of faint splashmarks), otherwise a very good, sound and unsophisticated copy in a fine half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition, Clark's first printing, BAL's binding A, inserted catalogue A. The first printing consisted of 1690 copies. Five different printings are dated 1851 on the title-page, and totaled 7710 copies between them. Those printings are distinguished chiefly by subtleties of type wear and alignment. "New England's greatest contribution to weird literature" - H.P. Lovecraft. BAL 7604. CLARK A17.1.d. WRIGHT II:1135.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. [Hawthorne, Nathaniel- All First Issue Points] The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition, First Printing. Original publisher's brown embossed cloth, gilt lettering on spine, re-backed with original spine. One of 1690 copies, printed in April, 1851, with the original 3pp first state ads dated March, 1851in the front. "The House of Seven Gables," one of Hawthorne's most renowned works, was an extended description of houses and households from many of his sketches, and hearkening back to the household of his youth, and (per DAB), [the house] withdrawn, solitary, declining, haunted by an ancestral curse. With "The House of Seven Gables" Hawthorne said farewell to the Salem in which he had grown up." The scarce first issue with type battered on page 149; publisher's name gilt-stamped on spine (BAL binding A), ad catalogue dated March, 1851, and necessarily being bound between front endpapers. With pencil signature of J.H. Morison (John Hopkins Morison) a contemporary of Hawthorne, and passed down to his son, who has inscribed: "Robert S. Morison from his father's library, 1899." Housed in brown cloth chemise and matching morocco-backed (black) cloth slipcase. Book is remarkably preserved with covers clean and bright, internally minimal signs of wear and no foxing.

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

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston, 1851.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo, exquisitely re-bound in full black morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, with equally elaborate red & black leather doublures, red silk moire fly-leaves. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851. First Edition. The original brown cloth covers & spine have been bound in, as well as the ads, dated May, 1851. The binding is unsigned, but masterfully executed.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.