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Nonfiction and reference, including Love Letters

Lot 330
16.06.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 100
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 967530
Lot 330 | Nonfiction and reference, including Love Letters
Estimate value
$ 3 000 – 5 000
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). A group of nine nonfiction and reference titles, 1852-1910.

Life of Franklin Pierce. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First edition, in original wrappers. Clark A21; BAL 7612. Small octavo. * Our Old Home. London: Smith, Elder and Co; 1863. First English edition. BAL 7626 note. Two volumes, octavo. Half-titles. Original green cloth (hinges cracked, a couple chips to endpapers, cloth rubbed). * Passages from the American Note-Books. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First edition, first printing, first binding, a Ticknor family copy, with "E.S. Ticknor" to flyleaf. BAL 7632. Two volumes, octavo. Original green cloth. * Passages from the English Note-Books. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1870. First edition, with "E.S. Ticknor" to flyleaf and publisher's inscription, "Mrs E.S. Ticknor Comp[liments] of the Publishers." BAL 7636. Two volumes, octavo. Original green cloth (repairs to hinges, lightly rubbed). * Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books. London: Strahan & Co., Publishers, 1871. First edition. BAL 7635. Two volumes, octavo. Half-titles. Original blue cloth (hinges cracked, spines a little dulled). Provenance: Arthur Reynolds (inscription dated 5 October 1880). * Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. First edition, first binding. BAL 7636. Two volumes, octavo. Original green cloth. * Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. A Biography. By Julian Hawthorne. Cambridge: University Press, 1884. First edition, one of 350 deluxe large paper copies, this one unnumbered. Signed by Julian Hawthorne, and inscribed "with the Compliments" of the publisher to writer and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman. Two volumes, quarto. Red half morocco gilt, top edge gilt (small chip to head of vol. 1). ( Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Chicago: Privately Printed for the Society of the Dofobs, 1907. First edition, one of 62 copies printed. BAL 7647. Two volumes, octavo. Half-titles, frontispiece in vol. 1. Quarter vellum over blue paper-covered boards (a little soiled, spines darkened); slipcase (worn). Provenance: William Henry Rossington (armorial bookplate) – Walter W. Colpitts (bookplate). * Letters of Hawthorne to William D. Ticknor, 1851-1864. Newark, New Jersey: The Carteret Book Club, 1910. First edition, one of 100 copies (this is #18). BAL 7648. Two volumes, small octavo. Tan cloth over green paper-covered boards, paper spine labels. [With:] Partly printed document signed ("Ticknor & Fields"), Boston, 10 April 1861. A check, endorsed on the verso, "Nath' Hawthorne."


Artist:Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
Place of origin:USA
Auction house category:Printed books
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