"Peter Goldthwait's Treasure" and "The Shaker Bridal" in THE TOKEN AND ATLANTIC SOUVENIR, A Christmas and New Year's Present. Edited by S.G. Goodrich.
Boston: American Stationers' Company, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. The first appearance in book form of this pair of short stories "by the author of 'Twice-told Tales'", along with three unsigned Hawthorne stories: "Sylph Etheredge", "Endicott and the Red Cross", and "Night Sketches, beneath an Umbrella". Inspired in part by his visit to the Shaker community at Canterbury, New Hampshire in 1831, "The Shaker Bridal" anticipates some of the themes Hawthorne (1804-64) would explore in The Scarlet Letter (1850). Octavo: 312 pp. with a presentation plate with tinted background, a frontispiece and extra title page vignette, and 7 plates, all steel engravings with tissue guards. Printed by Folson, Wells, and Thurston in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the publisher's black morocco binding, with blind-stamped ruled borders and narrow strapwork surround; gilt-stamped titling, vignette of floral urn, and strapwork with floral ornaments; and yellow coated endpapers. Typical toning to the plates, with scattered light foxing to the contents. Just a hint of rubbing to the extremities; else a lovely example. Faxon 799. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Item #78361
Price: $950.00