The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, 1838 A Christmas and New Year's Present

1838. The Token and Atlantic Souvenir a Christmas and New Years Present -Edited By S.G. Goodrich Publisher-Printing Location: Boston: American Stationers' Company Date and Numbering: 1838 Size and Page Count: 5"" X 8"" Tall, approx. 312 pages Condition: Very good, binding good, boards with shelf ware, endpages with three signatures and markings, medium foxing throughout text Illustration Information: 6 beautiful, full-page steel engravings ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian----

Contents:

The Wonders of the Deep -By J. Pierpont
The Caged Lion -By H.F. Gould
The Shaker Bridal -Nathaniel Hawthorne (Nathaniel Hawthorne was a famous American author who wrote The Scarlet Letter)
Peter Goldthwait's Treasure -By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sylph Etherege -Nathaniel Hawthorne
Endicott and the Red Cross -Nathaniel Hawthorne
Night Sketches, Beneath an Umbrella -Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Fairies' Visit to America -By Grenville Mellen
A Dramatic Scene, from Victor Hugo -By Charles Sherry
And many more short stories and poems!

Four of the five stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne were included in the compilation Twice-Told Tales . The Token (1829-1842) was an annual, illustrated gift book, containing stories, poems and other light and entertaining reading. In 1833, it became The Token and Atlantic Souvenir . The annual was chiefly edited by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (and briefly by Nathaniel Parker Willis), and published in Boston, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Hawthorne contributed, as did Alvan Fisher, Abel Bowen and other writers and artists. In 1833 The Token merged with The Souvenir to become The Token and Atlantic Souvenir , which continued until 1842. Hawthorne mailed stories to Griswold beginning in the spring of 1829. Goodrich claims he sought Hawthorne's work after reading an anonymous work of his, possibly the novel Fanshawe . The Token included several of Hawthorne's notable early works. - Wikipedia