The House Of the Seven Gables

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values, replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history."

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation--or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a Romance," and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.".

First Edition Identification

Ticknor, Reeds and Fields published a First Printing, First Edition in London, 1851. The hardcover is bound in brown cloth with gold lettering present on the spine

Heritage press published a First Edition in Norwalk, Connecticut, 1963.

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London: George Routledge and Co, 1851. Leather. Fair. 6.5" by 4". None. A scarce, internally clean First UK Edition of Hawthorne's gothic romance, in need of a sympathetic rebinding. Bound in half-leather with gilt lettering and marbled paper-covered boards. The House of the Seven Gables was Hawthorne's follow-up to his highly successful novel The Scarlet… Read more about this item
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Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good first edition, first issue, with battered type on page 149 and with March ads, one of only 1690 copies thus. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth stamped in blind, lettered in gilt on spine. BAL's binding A, with publisher's catalogue dated March 1851 in state A. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and spotted, chipped at the spine ends. Previous owner bookplates and details to front paste down. Pages heavily… Read more about this item
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Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. Losses at ends of spine, corners lightly worn, a few stains. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). [viii], 344 pages. 4-page advertisements inserted between front endpapers. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Christmas 1853 gift ink inscription from B. Frost to his niece Mary B. S. Fuller on front flyleaf. FIRST… Read more about this item
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Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851. First. hardcover. fine. 8vo, exquisitely re-bound in full black morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, with equally elaborate red & black leather doublures, red silk moire fly-leaves. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851. First Edition.<br/> <br/> The original brown cloth covers & spine have been bound in, as well as the ads, dated… Read more about this item
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Part of the Riverside Literature Series. Originally published elsewhere in 1851. Green fabric cover with green print on front, back and spine. Worn along all edges and over the spine, but worn through in only one small spot at the lower edge of the spine. Back cover has a few stains. Name and some other writing in pencil on the… Read more about this item
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