Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Intelligence Office (Daily Herald, Vol. XII, Nos. 242 and 243)

Newburyport, MA, J. B. Morss & W. H. Brewster, 1844. Two complete issues of the Daily Herald, Wednesday and Thursday mornings, April 3rd and 4th, 1844; 18 1/2 x 12 1/4; pp. [4] each; Hawthorne's short story on front page in both issues; occasional, small spots of foxing; no. 242 with a discreet, hand-stitch repair of a period tear through the title of the story; a few cuts and small chips to edges; overall in about very good condition. An unrecorded, very-early, possibly second printing of Hawthorne's "The Intelligence Office" (first published a month earlier, in March of 1844, in United States Magazine and Democratic Review, XIV), it would eventually become part of the author's collection of 23 short stories "Mosses from an Old Manse," published in 1846 and named in honor of the manse Hawthorne lived in in Concord, Massachusetts. Very good .

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