Description
Title: The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Hurst and Company, New York
Published: 0000
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 403
Catalogs: Hawthorne, Literature, Gothic
: Original white and pale blue cloth with a floral print on both boards, and text and decoration stamped in silver. Frontispiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and title page in bright pink ink. Spine is scuffed and a little dirty, and the spine ends are crushed. The boards also show some dirt and scuffing, and the edges and tips are exposed in places. The front hinge is a little weak, but the binding retains its integrity. Pages are unmarked, and slightly tanned. Ownership information in light pencil on flyleaf. This edition bears no date. The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) and published in April 1851. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. The setting for the book was inspired by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, a gabled house in Salem, Massachusetts, belonging to Hawthorne’s cousin Susanna Ingersoll, as well as ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Hardcover, good condition. 403 pages, 18mo.
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