MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE; [first printing with all the correct points].
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. First edition. Issued in the publisher's "Library of American Books" series. Collects 24 stories -- including the first appearance in print of the first one, "The Old Manse." Two parts bound in one, as issued (also issued in paperwraps in two separate volumes). First printing with correct printers' imprints on copyright pages, p. [212] in volume II blank, and with every first-printing textual issue point as described by Clark. [BAL 7598; Clark A15.1.a1]. 8vo purple cloth-covered boards; spine stamped in gilt and ruled in blind; front and back covers decorated in blind; rose-colored patterned endpapers; 297 + 211 pages. Good or better with binding sound, covers rubbed, spine toned to brown, spine ends frayed, boards visible in few small areas, and fault in final gathering resulting in small mis-folded area and occasional small tear near upper hinge corners pp. 193-211. In custom, brown-cloth dust jacket with worn, gilt-stamped leather spine label.
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Price: $2,250.00