Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel [1804 - 1864]. Hawthorne, Julian - Editor
Title: DOCTOR GRIMSHAWE'S SECRET. A Romance.; Edited, with Preface and Notes by Julian Hawthorne
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood & Co, 1883. 1st edition thus (Clark A31.1.c & B9). Original publisher's brown diaper cloth binding with leather spine label (cf. Clark B9). TEG. xiii, 368 pp. Issued without half-title. Frontis. T.p. vignette. 4 pp of facsimile mss. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5". Spine label a bit sunned. Otherwise, a sq & tight VG+ copy, with a Christmas 1883 presentation inscription to the ffep. This the 3rd printing of the 1st edition, issued uniform with Houghton Mifflin's 1883 Riverside Edition (Vol XIII, though not identified as such on the binding; see Clark for amplifying information).

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