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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 12mo. Volume 2 of 2 only. Green cloth binding with embossed bands to covers and stamped, gilt lettering and leaf designs to spine. Former library plaque, from the Fay Library of Southboro, MA, tipped inside front cover. Very Good. Binding tight. Sticker remnants to spine.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ---------Green cloth covers, small books, 7 1/4" tall. 222 pages, 228 pages, with gilt design on spines---------VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight solid bindings, however damp stains on margins of most pages, common for age of the books, and pale, and pages of the texts are stiff from age, solid and not fragile, inner hinges are tight but with little breakage paper only- - - no dust jackets. These books are older than 150 years, and they have been well-treated.
Seller: Melanie Nelson Books, Livingston, NY, NY, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Passages from the American Note-Books. Ticknor & Fields, 1868.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vols.
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blind-stamped green cloth on boards. Volume II only. 2 1/2 inch tear in front free endpaper previously repaired with brown paper tape, and following gutter strained. "Ticknor and Co." at base of backstrip. Printed by Welch, Bigelow at Cambridge. Tiny specks of wear at corners. Spine gilt bright. 228 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Dave Shoots, Bookseller, Saint John, NB, Canada
Price: US$115.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ROD0105884: 1868. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 2 TOMES : 1+2 : 222 + 228 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes in green cloth. Ink writing to first 15 pages of volumes I and to end papers of volume I. Bookplate to end papers of each volume. Light rubbing to cloth. Hinges are sound.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 2 only. First edition. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, scattered foxing throughout, 19th century bookplate of a small Vermont town book club. First printing, same date. True first edition of the Note-Books which would be reprinted by Fields and Osgood and Houghton Mifflin. Quite scarce, virtually unobtainable in any way but 21st century reprints and POD editions. The WorldCat locates one copy, volume one of the Houghton Mifflin later edition none at all of volume two. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and(generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!
Seller: The Book Shed, Benson, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$169.45 + shipping
Description: 222; 228 pp., small octavo, cloth with gold-stamped spine and blind-stamped decooration on cover. 950 g
Seller: Antiquariat Im Seefeld / Ernst Jetzer, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 18mo. In two volumes. Green cloth binding with embossed bands to covers and embossed, gilt lettering and leaf design to spine. Author was an American novelist,dark romantic, and short story writer. "Much of Hawthorne's writing centers onNew England, many works featuring moralmetaphorswith an anti-Puritaninspiration. His fiction works are considered part of theRomantic movementand, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his college friendFranklin Pierce, the 14thPresident of the United States." Very Good. Volume one has minor soiling to covers and is bound tightly. Volume II: bumping to corners. Small rip to front cover. Hinges cracked.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. PASSAGES FROM THE AMERICAN NOTE-BOOKS.. Ticknor and Fields,, Boston:, 1868.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (2), 222; (2), 228 pp. Contains selections from Hawthorne's journals from 1835 to 1853, shortly before his departure for England, as well as some extracts from his letters within the same period and also contains many initial ideas which were to become stories and parts of romances, as well as meticulous observations of people and places from his travels. An excellent, strong and clean set in the original publisher's green embossed cloth with gold spine lettering. Former owners bookplates on front pastedowns. Small 8vo.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$372.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A two volume first edition work providing personal insight into the life of prominent American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first edition of this lesser known work from American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Bound in two volumes, in the first state binding, with 'Ticknor & Co' to back strip tails.Published posthumously, these volumes contain excerpts from Hawthorne's journals between 1835 and 1853, shortly before his departure from England, along with some extracts from his letters during that period.These were transcribed by Hawthorne's wife, Sofia Hawthorne.Best known for 'The Scarlett Letter', much of Hawthorne's writing was based in his native New England, and featured an anti-Puritan message. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Boards clean and bright, with bumping to back strip heads and tails. Front hinge of volume I starting, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Light handling marks to first few leaves of each volume, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Two volumes. 12mo. 222; 228pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Early engraved bookplate of Freewill Baptist Printing Establishment on front pastedown of both volumes ("Library of the F. B. Printing Establishment"). Both volumes are fine, bright copies. *BAL's* first binding. *BAL* 7632; *Clark* A26.1.a, (issued as "Nathaniel Hawthorne's Works"). A beautiful set.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$977.50 + shipping
Description: 7 x 4.5, blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, 222, 228. Covers have light wear and spotting, cloth a little puckered on vol 1, corners and spine tips bumped and worn, spines cocked, inner hinges cracked and covers loose, shaken loose signatures, text blocks cracked, pencil name and inscription (Lizzie N. Noel from P.B. Randolph Dec. 25th, 1868), pencil note on one page and pencil bracket on another page, both in vol. 1, lacking tip of lower corner of p.191-192, also vol. 1, in vol. 2 there is a tear on p. 119-120. FIRST ED, FIRST STATE, VARIANT PRINTING OF VOL. II. WITH CLIPPED SIGNATURE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AFFIXED TO TITLE PAGE OF VOLUME I.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.