Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. Original green-grey pebble-grain cloth with front cover black paper label printed in gilt. First Edition of this early Hawthorne title, written as a grandfather's presentation to his grandchildren of the events in an around Boston during the Revolutionary War. Published in March 1841 (with the Preface...
What the Children Saw and Heard there. Illustrated by Oliver Herford. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in green and dark brown. First Edition of this curious volume of tales: three little children -- Buster John, Sweetest Susan and Drusilla -- journey...
Illustrated by Phiz. London: Chapman & Hall, 1845. Original grey-green cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this children's book -- "It was on the 16th of March, the eve of St. Patrick, not quite twenty years ago..." -- modeled on the Christmas books of Charles...
