The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance Hawthorne, Nathaniel Fiction

First Printing. vi, [2], [9]-344 pp. 8vo. 12mo. Brown cloth publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Wear and scuffing to boards, fraying at head and foot of spine, 7/8" tear starting at head of spine on rear hinge, corners bumped with small losses consistent with use over time. Titling along spine has some fading, somewhat bright overall. Yellow endpapers with 4 pp. catalog inserted at front endpapers with light water staining along head of prelims. Light spotting within. Previous owner's name and date of acquisition in pencil on page preceding title page, "April 26th, 1851". Overall, quite tight to boards. [BAL 7604]. First Issue of this important work in American Letters. First issue (BAL Binding A) with battered last letters ("t" & "h") on sentence 1 & 2 on p. 149. Catalog dated March 1851, BAL's Catalog B, with last entry on p. 3: ".Poems of Many/"