Grandfather's Chair
- Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. First edition. Very Good +. Sixteenmo (4 7/8 x 3 1/4 inches; 124 x 82 mm.). viii, [9] - 140. Publishers basket-weave plum cloth, cream endpapers. Lacking the gilt lettered black paper label on the front cover, spine repaired (possibly recased). Chemised in a quarter dark green morocco slip-case.
Nathaniel Hawthorne thrilled nineteenth-century audiences with probing analyses of the legacies of America's colonial and Puritan past on later generations, and it is this perspective that continues to garner admiration today. Here, this charming petite book offers readers a collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical short stories, predominantly set in colonial New England between 1620-1808. Told as a frame story in which a grandfather educates his four descendants, these episodes shed a light on the struggles and joys of people living before and during the American revolution.
BAL, 7590; Browne, p. 38. Very Good +.
Nathaniel Hawthorne thrilled nineteenth-century audiences with probing analyses of the legacies of America's colonial and Puritan past on later generations, and it is this perspective that continues to garner admiration today. Here, this charming petite book offers readers a collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical short stories, predominantly set in colonial New England between 1620-1808. Told as a frame story in which a grandfather educates his four descendants, these episodes shed a light on the struggles and joys of people living before and during the American revolution.
BAL, 7590; Browne, p. 38. Very Good +.