[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Hawthorne's "Wonder-Book..." Boston: 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
(some with tissue guards). 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 about fine. Bookplate on front
pastedown.  $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)

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