Passages From The American Note-books by Hawthorne, Nathaniel (with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop) - 1887

Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1887. Trade Edition. Hardcover. This is part of the Riverside Edition of the Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop. (Vol. 9). Three quarter leather binding with decorated paper boards and gilt decorations and lettering to the spine. The book is in Very Good to Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. There is a nick / beginning tear to the rear spine joint by the title. There is also some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine joints and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the reverse of the front endpaper. The endpapers are decorated with the same design as the covers. The front pastedown page has the remnants of a previous owner's address label which has been partially removed. "Nathaniel Hawthorne ( born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. Nathaniel later added a "w" to make his name "Hawthorne" in order to hide this relation. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. Hawthorne published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828; he later tried to suppress it, feeling it was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The next year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at the Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842." .