THE GOLDEN FLEECE. A Romance. by HAWTHORNE, Julian - [1892]

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company., [1892]. First Edition. First edition. Octavo, pp 515-572. The true first book edition, consisting of the sheets of the story from the May, 1892 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, bound up by the publisher with a specially printed title page. The first regularly published edition was not issued until 1896. Disbound; copies were issued in various different bindings, this copy is the sheets of the story as issued with the extra printed title leaf; stapled at edges. Very good. Rare.

¶ Marginal lost race story set in California. Of an Indian magician who is a reincarnated Aztec preist. Transmigration of souls, & the search for Aztec treasure.