Transformation: or, the Romance of Monte Beni by Hawthorne, Nathaniel - 1860

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1925. Softcover. Fine. First Continental edition, vol. 4677 in the Tauchnitz Edition Collection of British and American Authors. Fine in very good or better wrappers with a faint stain to the front wrap and the spine chipped. Inscribed by the author on the front wrap. This western classic was the basis for two films, a 1925 silent featuring Noah Beery (and with a young Gary Cooper in an uncredited bit part) and a 1934 version directed and starring Harry Carey, Sr., along with Beery, Randolph Scott and Buster Crabbe.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1887. SEE PHOTOS. A gorgeous copy of the scarce FIRST CONTINENTAL EDITION (Todd & Bowden #2440). Very Fine condition -- unusually fresh and attractive. Beautifully bound with brown morocco spine and corners, lettered in shiny gold over a handsome red leather spine label. There are six gilt-decorated raised bands on spine. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. All edges are red speckled. Pages are creamy white, clean, crisp and unmarked. NO foxing. 4.5" wide by 6.25" tall. In 1996, Broadfoot CIVIL WAR BOOKS, A PRICED CHECKLIST valued the First London Edition at $500.00, and First American Edition at $400.00. But Broadfoot didn't mention this First Continental Edition, which was issued the same year as the American. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Autobiography of Admiral Hobart Pasha (Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, 1822-1886) a British Royal Navy officer, and winner of the Victoria Cross. Recounted here are his… Read More

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 vols. frontis (sketch-map), index, xx, 274, vi, 294, [vi], 270p. Rebound (not recently) in plain blue cloth. 15cm. Corners lightly bumped and there is a touch of fraying here and there along extremities. Half-titles present. Circular stamp on half-title in Vol. I: "The Colonial Book & News Stores Port Said Egypt" with a handwritten date of 1896. Small name plate of a former owner in each volume. Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz Edition, Nos. 1400-1402. This Tauchnitz edition was the third chronologically, but Mullan's edition of 1879 is generally designated as the third edition since the Tauchnitz edition was a foreign (i.e. non-English) edition. Burton wrote a preface specifically for the Tauchnitz edition, which appears at pages xii-xviii in Vol. I. The map is different from those in the previous editions, and the appendices of the first and second editions are omitted, as was some text.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1925. Softcover. Fine. First Continental edition, vol. 4677 in the Tauchnitz Edition Collection of British and American Authors. Fine in very good or better wrappers with a faint stain to the front wrap and the spine chipped. Inscribed by the author on the front wrap. This western classic was the basis for two films, a 1925 silent featuring Noah Beery (and with a young Gary Cooper in an uncredited bit part) and a 1934 version directed and starring Harry Carey, Sr., along with Beery, Randolph Scott and Buster Crabbe.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1887. SEE PHOTOS. A gorgeous copy of the scarce FIRST CONTINENTAL EDITION (Todd & Bowden #2440). Very Fine condition -- unusually fresh and attractive. Beautifully bound with brown morocco spine and corners, lettered in shiny gold over a handsome red leather spine label. There are six gilt-decorated raised bands on spine. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. All edges are red speckled. Pages are creamy white, clean, crisp and unmarked. NO foxing. 4.5" wide by 6.25" tall. In 1996, Broadfoot CIVIL WAR BOOKS, A PRICED CHECKLIST valued the First London Edition at $500.00, and First American Edition at $400.00. But Broadfoot didn't mention this First Continental Edition, which was issued the same year as the American. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Autobiography of Admiral Hobart Pasha (Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, 1822-1886) a British Royal Navy officer, and winner of the Victoria Cross. Recounted here are his… Read More

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 vols. frontis (sketch-map), index, xx, 274, vi, 294, [vi], 270p. Rebound (not recently) in plain blue cloth. 15cm. Corners lightly bumped and there is a touch of fraying here and there along extremities. Half-titles present. Circular stamp on half-title in Vol. I: "The Colonial Book & News Stores Port Said Egypt" with a handwritten date of 1896. Small name plate of a former owner in each volume. Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz Edition, Nos. 1400-1402. This Tauchnitz edition was the third chronologically, but Mullan's edition of 1879 is generally designated as the third edition since the Tauchnitz edition was a foreign (i.e. non-English) edition. Burton wrote a preface specifically for the Tauchnitz edition, which appears at pages xii-xviii in Vol. I. The map is different from those in the previous editions, and the appendices of the first and second editions are omitted, as was some text.