Nathaniel Hawthorne, Life of Franklin Pierce, 1st ed.
$750.00
An Unusual Mashup of Literature and Politics,
From the Author of The Scarlet Letter
In stock
Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote this campaign biography, Life of Franklin Pierce, at the urging of his Bowdoin College classmate and long-time friend, presidential candidate Franklin Pierce.
Orig. decorated bds. with gilt-lettered spine. Lt. soil; persistent spotting on top of upper margin and occasionally at outer margin; else very good plus.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. LIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE. Boston: 1852. 1st ed., being the earliest edition with inserted 4-page advertisement in the front dated “July 1852″; 144p., ft.(port). Earliest state of the binding; frontispiece with tissue guard (foxed).
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