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Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition, First Printing. Original publisher's brown embossed cloth, gilt lettering on spine, re-backed with original spine. One of 1690 copies, printed in April, 1851, with the original 3pp first state ads dated March, 1851in the front. "The House of Seven Gables," one of Hawthorne's most renowned works, was an extended description of houses and households from many of his sketches, and hearkening back to the household of his youth, and (per DAB), [the house] withdrawn, solitary, declining, haunted by an ancestral curse... With "The House of Seven Gables" Hawthorne said farewell to the Salem in which he had grown up." The scarce first issue with type battered on page 149; publisher's name gilt-stamped on spine (BAL binding A), ad catalogue dated March, 1851, and necessarily being bound between front endpapers. With pencil signature of J.H. Morison (John Hopkins Morison) a contemporary of Hawthorne, and…

The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written in 1851. It explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement within a New England family history.

First editions are noted for their dark blue cloth binding and embossed covers.