Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xi, [2], 10-398, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with pink lettering on the spine. Publisher's device on the title page. BAL 7626. The first issue of the first American edition. Preceded by the British edition. Dedicated to the unpopular President Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne recounts his days as a U.S. Consul in England, with an essay on his travels to Oxford, his impressions of poverty in Britain, and a description of his sojourn to a London suburb. An autobiographical collection of short stories by one of the principal authors of American literature. A lovely copy. Very Good+. Item #00009541
Cloth shows only a touch of fading and spotting, the spine and corners are clean and sharp; modern bookplate on the front pastedown, leaves show scattered, light foxing.
Price: $300.00