HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The House of Seven Gables. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.

Attractive copy of the first edition of Hawthorne's gothic novel. Inspired by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, and family ties to the Witch Trials, the story follows a New England family and their ancestral home. BAL 7604, Binding B.

Octavo. Ads dated March 1851 (occasional minor marginal browning). Original brown cloth (spine ends a little rubbed). Custom clamshell box.

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