INSCRIBED ASSOCIATIONAL COPY. Pale orange cloth, lettered/decorated in green. Mild rubbing to spine extremities, light soiling to covers. Firm binding, clean interior. 255 pp. Mild foxing to a few early and late leaves, and to text block edges. Front flyleaf features a page-length inscription by Margaret M. Lothrop, who curated the Wayside as a museum from 1927, when she inherited it from her parents, Daniel and Harriet (aka Margaret Sidney): "This book is being inscribed / in the room which was / Mr. Hawthorne's study where / he wrote these tales! Later, / after he had added his tower / study, he used this room as / his library and in it read / aloud to his family all of / Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. // Margaret M. Lothrop / The Wayside / Concord, Massachusetts / September twenty-ninth / 1941" (personalized to Richard Browne). The Wayside (as Hillside) had also been home to a young Louisa Alcott. Inscribed copies of Hawthorne by Mrs. Lothrop are uncommon.