[Rarebooks] FS: Hawthorne's "Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" 1st printing. 1852

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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND 
BOYS. With Engravings by Baker from Designs by Billings. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, 
and Fields. 1852. First ed., first printing. Sm. 8vo. 256pp. Illustrated with 
an engraved frontispiece and 6 engraved plates. Publisher’s green cloth special 
gift binding (Ticknor format “B”) elaborately blind stamped with a central 
gilt motif. A.e.g. Minor spots on title and frontispiece. This copy lacks the 
front free endpaper, otherwise an about fine very bright copy.   Bookplate on 
front pastedown.     $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)

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