“The Lily’s Quest,” [in] The Picturesque Pocket Companion, and Visitor’s Guide, Through Mount Auburn . . .
Boston: Otis, Broaders, 1839. First edition. Clark C11; BAL 7588; American Imprints 57952. An attractive pocket-size literary guide to the history and the notable features of Cambridge’s famous Mount Auburn Cemetery, which includes the first book appearance of Hawthorne’s appropriately morbid tale “The Lily’s Quest,” that was later collected in.....