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The House Of The Seven Gables
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin And Company, 1899. Reprint of 1899. Both volumes of this complete two volume set are in very good+ condition in 3/4 light brown, leather and marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations in the compartments and with the top edge of the text block gilt. Both volumes are small octavos of 7 5/8 by 4 7/8 inches with the end sheet matching the marbled paper covering the boards. The leather is rubbed and slightly worn at the heads and heels of the spine, as is the leather over the tips of the boards. The contents are clean, tight and free of any tanning or foxing. There is no indication of what firm created these elegant bindings. Without dust jackets. Volume I contains 265 pages illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates by Maude and Genevieve Cowles each plate is protected by tissue guards. Volume II contains 277 pages illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates by the above artists with each plate protected by tissue guards.
Synopsis
First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values, replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history." In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation--or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a Romance," and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel." .
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Reviews
On Jun 6 2016, a reader said:
I just found a hard back cover edition of this great book on my mother-in-laws book case. She received it for a Christmas present in 1941. It has a number 53 stamped into its back cover. I'm reading it now and enjoying the writers craft and story. I became intrigued with Hawthorne's style and decided to look it up. Thank you for your review and priceless information about the book and the author. I will treasure my copy and forever be grateful to my husbands sweet mother for giving me this window into the past through The House to the Seven Gables. A beautiful reading experience for years to come.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB30228
- Title
- The House Of The Seven Gables
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint of 1899
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin And Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1899
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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