HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel

The Blithedale Romance

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First American Edition. First printing, with the copyright page notices lower on the page, and the capital O in the spine imprint. Octavo (19cm). Blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; viii,288pp; 4pp publisher's catalogue at front, dated July 1852. Sound but cocked and rubbed, cloth cracking over rear joint, wear to extremities, occasional foxing: Good.

A novel based on Hawthorne's experiences at Brook Farm, a transcendentalist "community of utopian idealists near Boston" in which Hawthorne invested and where he lived briefly (ANB). Preceded by the British edition. CLARK A20.2.a. BAL 7611, binding A.

Price: $350.00

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