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Palala Press, 2015. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012-02-22. Paperback. Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston: Tappan & Dennet. Fair. 1842. Second Edition. Hardcover. Two consecutive leaves have an area of heavy staining to the spine margins, approximate maximum width of stain 2" on each page. Diminishes on adjacent leaves. Small stain to the upper spine corners in front. Covers have a very small and a tiny ink stain to the front, slight wear to the outer corners, and very slight rubbing. Spine has light wear to the ends and a tiny nick to the center. Very small split to the front inner hinge. Name label and written name on front endpapers. ; Second edition. BAL 7591. .

Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. Book. Near Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. Book has owners signature, foxed endpapers, replaced spine label, cover label is chipped, modest cover wear thus near very good..

Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. First editions. Hardcover. Very good overall. Two volumes of children's stories on American history from the Puritans to the American Revolution, by the author of 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of the Seven Gables'. 32mo, in original diced brown cloth with black paper label on front boards (blank). Housed in a sleeve in green gilt morocco box. Grandfather's Chair: 1st Edition, 16mo, vii, [1 (blank)], 140 pp. 16mo. 5 1/4" x 3-1/2". (BAL7590; Clark A6.1). Famous Old People: 1st Edition vii, [1 (blank)], 158, [2 (blank)] pp. 16mo, 3 3/8x5". (BAL7591; Clark A7.1). Overall, text is extremely clean. Covers of both volumes slt rubbed, corners rubbed on G.C.; 2 small marks on spine & traces of a glue repair at inner hinge of F.O.P, title labels very slt chipped at right edges. Very pleasant contemporary copies in a handsome dark green morocco spined slipcase.

Boston and New York: E. P. Peabody Wiley & Putnam, 1841. First edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. All three of Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair books for children, all first editions. The first volume very good, with 1841 gift inscription on blank page "Henry L. Abbot, from his Father, August 13, 1841." General Henry Larcom Abbot up to be a distinguished Civil War Brevet Major General. Below the 1841 inscription is a 1913 inscription by the general's daughter, Eleanor Abbot. Famous Old People with chipped label and wrinkle and water mark to cover, but internally quite nice. Liberty Tree - the scarcest of the three - with expert repair to cloth at front joint, and penciled 1841 inscription to front endpaper. A rare set, seldom found together.

Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. First edition. 158pp. 1 vols. 16mo (12 x 8 cm). Original plum cloth, embossed with a basket weave pattern. Chipped at ends of spine, a few stains to cloth; pale foxing. In unrestored, original condition. First edition. 158pp. 1 vols. 16mo (12 x 8 cm). First edition. The second title in Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair series for children: stories on American history from the Puritans to the American Revolution. Apparently a variant binding, as BAL and Clark both describe the basket weave embossing on slate cloth, and all copies as having a black paper label on the front cover. There is no evidence that a label was ever present on this copy. Very scarce. BAL 7591; Clark A7.1. Provenance: Herschel V. Jones (bookplate; his sale Anderson Galleries, 20 November 1916, lot 278)