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Doctor Grimshaw’s Secret, 1883

The cover of a book with black and white illustration of two children watching spiders descend through smoke.|An open book with the inscription "T.A. Appleton"|A green spine cover of a book.

Doctor Grimshaw's Secret

The cover of a book with black and white illustration of two children watching spiders descend through smoke.|An open book with the inscription "T.A. Appleton"|A green spine cover of a book.

Date: 1883

Type: Book

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Description

One of the more dramatic covers in our collection, this copy of Doctor Grimshaw’s Secret perfectly captures Hawthorne’s gothic bent. This book is part of a large number of rare Hawthorne books that once belonged to the Appleton family, many of which are now part of our archives.