HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). Two literary magazines, 1850.

The first printing of “The Snow-Image,” together with the first book printing of “Drowne’s Wooden Image.”

1. International Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art. New-York: Stringer & Townsend, November 1850. The first printing of the allegorical tale “The Snow-Image.” The volume also includes poems and prose by Mary E. Hewitt, “The Convict” by Alice Carey, “Helen” by R.H. Stoddard, “The First Doubt” by Grace Greenwood, “Loss and Gain” by Maria MacIntosh, and many others. Clark D79. Quarto. Original printed wrappers (lightly soiled, a little chipping to foot of spine, rear wrapper starting).

2. The Boston Book. Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. 1850. The first book printing of “Drowne’s Wooden Image.” The tale was first published in Godey’s Magazine in 1844. The volume also prints “Boston Church Bells” and “The Morning Visit” by Oliver Wendall Holmes, “Kathleen” and “The Yankee Zincali” by John Greenleaf Whittier, “Morning and Night” by Harriet Winslow, “Resignation” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Ocean” by Richard H. Dana, and “Nature” and “Concord Monument” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others. Clark C21. Octavo. Engraved title. Original blue-green cloth stamped in gilt (spine faded, some rubbing at extremities).