Life Franklin Pierce by Nathaniel Hawthorne, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. A crisp clean near new copy that appears unread. This edition was published for the Tamworth School District. ; 9 X 6.10 X 0.70 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown boards with blind stamped block pattern on front and back. Gilt lettering on spine. Binding is good - no cracks. Foxing present on the end papers. Minor wear to the top edge of the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Paperback; Softcover. Brown paper covers show edge wear and soil. Water marks front and rear. Fore edge soil, a few rough edges. Text pages show occasional edge wear and soil throughout. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 8VO.

Blindstamped Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Presentation copy, from publisher to Alexander H. Rice (1818-1895), dated September 21, 1852. Rice was a successful entrepreneur in the paper industry who began his rise in politics shortly after the date of the inscription, serving as the mayor of Boston between 1856 and 1857, a U.S. Congressman during the Civil War, and Governor of Massachusetts from 1876 to 1878. 8vo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 4 pages of publisher's ads, 144 pp....

Original cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Large 12mo. Four pages of publishers ads (July 1852), [5], 4-144 pp. Frontis. engraved portrait of Pierce with tissue guard. Yellow endpapers. Original green cloth, blindstamped with gilt lettering on spine. Foxing to preliminaries. Bookplate of Mary Savage Johnson on the front pastedown. Interior bright, cloth in pleasing condition with spine ends intact, corners sharp. A piece of electioneering written by Pierce's Bowdoin College chum. The effort was reciprocated when President Pierce...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, MA. 1852. 144 pgs First Edition (4-page advertisements dated July 1852 inserted between front endpages). Bound in green cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and textured boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. One of only two American...

First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine (spine imprint state "A" per BAL), yellow endpapers; 144pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece by C.E. Wagstaff and J. Andrews. Boards lightly rubbed, shallow losses at spine ends, light foxing to frontispiece, else Very Good and sound. This copy state "A" (no priority) per BAL, issued without the publisher's advertisements. Three printings appeared in 1852; no priority has been established, though this copy's spine imprint matches that of the extant copyright...