Hawthorne's Wonder-Book
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Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Title: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Date Published: 1852
Description: vi, [7]-256 pp. Several wood engravings throughout by Baker from designs by Billings; frontispiece with tissue-guards. 6½x4¼", decoratively blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition, second issue.Second issue with page 21, line 3 having the word "lifted" corrected from the original "lifed." BAL 7606; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 6. Lot also includes: School Days at Rugby By an Old Boy. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. First American Edition.
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Title: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Date Published: 1852
Description: vi, [7]-256 pp. Several wood engravings throughout by Baker from designs by Billings; frontispiece with tissue-guards. 6½x4¼", decoratively blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition, second issue.Second issue with page 21, line 3 having the word "lifted" corrected from the original "lifed." BAL 7606; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 6. Lot also includes: School Days at Rugby By an Old Boy. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. First American Edition.
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Both volumes edgeworn, spines sunned and tips fraying; School Days joints and hinges starting; good or better.
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