Hawthorne and His Friends: Reminiscence and Tribute

by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

American Transcendentalist Franklin Benjamin Sanborn offers a portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1842-1864) constructed from accounts and letters from friends, family, classmates, and correspondents. Includes frontispiece of Una Hawthorne. 84 pages. 6.25" by 9".

Presumed 1st edition published by The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Book is well-read yet appears carefully maintained with sharp corners and a clean interior. 
• Grey cloth over boards exhibits signs of gentle wear and aging such as smudges, sunning along spine, and light-to-moderate perimeter wear including chipped and frayed spine ends. 
• Binding is secure. 
• Spine features red leather title block with gilt trim and lettering. 
• Inlaid frontispiece is darker than adjoining pages. 
• Watermark of interior high quality paper can be seen on ffeps. 
• Pages exhibit vibrant type on clean bright leafs. 
• Ex Libris embossed stamp on internal fep. Please see photos.
• Pastedowns and endpapers bear light foxing.
• Textblock edges are deckled fore and foot with distinct foxing. 
• Inside pages are free of writing, highlighting, underlining or other intentional marks. 
• Book may exhibit additional minor signs of age or wear. 
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Sanborn (1831-1917) was an American journalist, author, and reformer. Sanborn was a social scientist, and a memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biographies of many of the movement's key figures. He founded the American Social Science Association, in 1865, "to treat wisely the great social problems of the day." He was a member of the Secret Six, or "Committee of Six," which funded the militant abolitionist John Brown.

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