THE MARBLE FAUN
by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Small university bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. About Fine in a Fine slipcase
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Zurich: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Carl Strauss. Two duodecimo volumes (4-3/8" x 7") bound in full flexible tan tweed with gold-stamped orange cloth labels. Illustrated with etchings by Carl Strauss printed in gravure and hand-colored. Copy #1266 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
Synopsis
The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018563
- Title
- THE MARBLE FAUN
- Author
- HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
- Illustrator
- Carl Strauss
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Small university bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. About Fine in a Fine slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Zurich
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Signed, Limited Editions, Hawthorne, 19th Century Literature, Color Plate Books, Fine Press, 19th Century American Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hand-colored;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
All books subject to prior sale. Payment with order; institutions may be billed. Postage additional: $11.00 for the first book, $6.00 each thereafter. Overseas postage billed at approximate cost. Pennsylvania residents must add 6% sales tax. Mastercard, Visa, and American Express accepted. We are also open to reasonable payment terms. A book may be returned within 7 days of receipt for any reason provided it is in the same condition as sent and prior notice is given. Please insure returns for their full value.
About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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