THE COMPLETE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE : IN TWELVE VOLUMES [12 VOLUMES]
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 [author]; Lathrop, George Parsons, 1851-1898 [introductory notes]; Blum ... et al. [illustrators]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. Riverside Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 12 volumes; Riverside edition; G; Hardcover; Spine, brown with gold print, raised bands; Boards half bound with brown leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards, toning to spine leather with slight scuffing on some volumes, light wear to spine caps, edges, and corners, else clean and strong; Text blocks have gilt top edge, marbled endpapers, name and date penciled on front endpapers, some volumes with uncut pages, else clean and tight unless otherwise noted below; Frontispiece and illustrated title page in each volume "illustrated with etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner"; CONTENTS: Vol. I. Twice-Told Tales (538 pages) - Vol. II. Mosses from an Old Manse (559 pages) - Vol. III. The House of the Seven Gables ; and, The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales (cracked front hinge; 641 pages) - Vol. IV. A Wonder Book ; Tanglewood Tales ; and, Grandfather's Chair (637 pages) - Vol. V. The Scarlet Letter ; and, The Blithedale Romance (light spotting on spine; 600 pages) - Vol. VI. The Marble Faun, or, The Romance of Monte Beni (527 pages) - Vol. VII. Our Old Home ; and, English Note-Books. Vol. I (surface tear to front leather at spine edge; 588 pages) - Vol. VIII. Our Old Home ; and, English Note-Books. Vol. II (619 pages) - Vol. IX. Passages from the American Note-Books (458 pages) - Vol. X. Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books (574 pages) - Vol. XI. The Dolliver Romance ; Fanshawe ; and, Septimus Felton : with an Appendix Containing "The Ancestral Footstep" (521 pages) - Vol. XII. Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers : with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop (578 pages).
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1359696
- Title
- THE COMPLETE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE : IN TWELVE VOLUMES [12 VOLUMES]
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 [author]; Lathrop, George Parsons, 1851-1898 [introductory notes]; Blum ... et al. [illustrators]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Riverside Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1883
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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