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The Hawthorne Centenary Celebration at The Wayside Concord, Massachusetts July 4-7, 1904
by [Hawthorne] [Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ed.]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston dn New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. First edition. Dark red vertically ribbed cloth, title in gilt on front and spine. 8vo: x, 208 p.. Very Good. Text block bumped, minor stain on spine, else clean and sound. INSCRIBED BY THE OWNER OF WAYSIDE (Hawthorne's house): "For / Mrs. Florence Hall Colgate / with the sincere regard of / Mrs. Daniel Lothrop / The Wayside Concord Mass. / August 14th 1908." Mrs. [Harriet] Daniel Lothrop was also known as Margaret Sidney, author of the Five Little Peppers series of children's books. BAL 8466.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Whale Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019731
- Title
- The Hawthorne Centenary Celebration at The Wayside Concord, Massachusetts July 4-7, 1904
- Author
- [Hawthorne] [Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ed.]
- Format/Binding
- Dark red vertically ribbed cloth, title in gilt on front and spine. 8vo: x, 208 p.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston dn New York
- Date Published
- 1905
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Charlottesville, Virginia
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