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The Marble Faun: The Romance of Monte Beni
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
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Hudson, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Nicely bound set of "THE MARBLE FAUN - or, The Romance of Monte Beni" by Nathaniel Hawthorne with its original slip case. 1890; Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Boston and New York. Complete set in two volumes. Decorative covers and spines with gilt top page edges and ribbon page markers. The volumes are richly illustrated with full-page photogravures with descriptive tissue guards.
Condition:
Each cover has a light stain at the center of the inner edge by the spine; sun-fading/soiling to the spines. Sharp cover corners. Bright gilt top page edges. Volume I has a crack at the rear hinge between the end paper and pastedown resulting in the back cover being just a bit shaky. The text pages are lightly age-toned, though clean with no writing, stains or foxing. Each page marker has left a shadow outline at the inner edge by the spine. There are 5 pages at the front of Volume II that have a 1.5" horizontal tear at the outer edge. The Volume I page marker is present but has detached. The tissue guard over the page 84 plate has pulled from the spine 1/3 of the way up from the bottom. Tanning to the end papers and pastedowns. Overall the books are in Good condition. The slip case has soiling to the panels; the bottom panels have a 2" split at each corner of the opening....overall the slip case is in Good- condition.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- CraigsClassics
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7569
- Title
- The Marble Faun
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Format/Binding
- Decorative
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1890
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- nathaniel hawthorne, young goodman brown, the great stone face, ministers black veil, the birthmark, blithedale romance, wonder book boys girls, scarlet letter, mosses old manse, our old home, grandfathers chair, house seven gables, fanshawe, twice told t
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
CraigsClassics
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About the Seller
CraigsClassics
Biblio member since 2018
Hudson, New Hampshire
About CraigsClassics
My store offers a curated selection of antiquarian books in a variety of topics with an emphasis on classic literature and children's classics. I take pride in providing great customer service with prompt replies to offers and inquiries, careful packaging and next-day shipping. Based in scenic southern New Hampshire.
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Hinge
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