Lot Details
Lot 135
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Group of first and illustrated editions.
Comprising: The Blithdale Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields: 1852. First edition in BAL binding A. Publisher's embossed brown cloth, gilt lettered spine. 7 x 4 1/4 inches; [1]-4 pp. of ads; [i]-viii, [9]-288, [2]. Head and tail of spine chipped, corners bumped, lightly rubbed, scattered foxing, booklabel of William Safire. BAL 7611; Our Old Home. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition, first printing. Publisher's embossed brown cloth, gilt lettered spine. 7 x 4 1/4 inches; [i-ix], x-xi, [2], 10-398, [1- ads], [1- blank] pp. Light shelf wear, tail of spine chipping and tear in cloth along the rear board at head of spine, slight spine lean, bookplate of Arnold Wood; Our Old Home. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition, second printing. Light shelf wear, bookplates of Ralph C. Runyon and William Safire; The Scarlet Letter. New York: Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Random House, 1928. Number 738 of 980. Quarter red calf over olive cloth, gilt spine title, slipcase. 9 1/4 x 6 inches. Illustrated with color wood block prints by Valenti Angelo. Toning and wear to spine; shelf wear to slipcase, with one joint starting but still sound; ex libris of William Safire; The House of the Seven Gables. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Number 103 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator Valenti Angelo. Quarter black calf over spine, spine titled in silver, marbled paper over boards. Light wear, lacks slipcase; Transformation: or, the Romance of Monte Beni. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. Copyright edition. 2 volumes in 1. Publisher's full gilt vellum; all edges red. 6 x 4 1/4 inches; extra-illustrated with photographic plates. Light shelf wear, booklabel of William Safire; The Marble Faun, or the Romance of Monte Beni. Zurich: Fretz Brothers for The Limited Editions Club, 1931. Number 230 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Two volumes. Full cloth over thin boards, gilt cloth spine labels, top edge gilt. Illustrated with color plates by Carl Strauss. Lacks slipcase. Bookplate of Ruth Allanson Cogswell and ex libris of William Safire.
An interesting miscellany of Nathaniel Hawthorne from the library of William Safire.
C From the Collection of the late William Safire
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