After Hawthorne's death in 1864, a Boston publisher bought the Wayside for a summer home.
He then tried a Boston publisher and more publishers in New York, and met another round of rejections.
Thayer and the narrative was published by a Boston, Massachusetts publisher in 1861.
The Boston publisher subsequently accepted Omoo sight unseen.
In 1852 a Boston publisher brought out the book in its complete form.
In 1886, his second book, In Divers Tones, was published by a Boston publisher.
George approached two Boston publishers with the idea, but was unsuccessful.
He joined the Boston publisher in 1965 as national sales manager after having been an independent sales representative.
The Boston publisher said last year's figure included an after-tax gain of $4.2 million resulting from a settlement of pension obligations.
The first edition became exhausted in two years, and apparently the Boston publisher did not consider the book worthy of a second.