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Price: US$41.00 + shipping
Description: Covers rubbed and skewed, with stain at bottom and outside edges of front cover; extremities chipped and frayed; foxing throughout; otherwise very good condition. BAL 7607, but without the publishers catalogue (hence an earlier issue?). ]. 273p.
Seller: Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. 273pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Foxing. Wear and chipping at spine.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine and decorative blind stamping on front cover and spine. Title page dated 1852, copyright page dated 1851. This is a first printing of the first edition. Ads at the front for other books by the publisher dated January, 1852. 273 pages. Book is in fair condition. Some wear to cover, particularly along edges where cloth has split in places exposing bits of the boards beneath. Heavier wear on hinges and head and foot of spine as well. Gold stamping remains bright. A few small black spots on front cover. Corners bumped inward just a bit. Binding remains strong. Page edges toned. Fading stamp with a previous owner's name and address on front attached endpaper. Heavy foxing to two thin advertisement pages, the first of which is torn from the top edge near the gutter. A fair amount of foxing to all pages. Pages are otherwise free of marks or folds. Book is overall sturdy and in good reading condition.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Nathaniel Hawathorne. Snow-Image and other Twice-told Tales. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852.
Price: US$95.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This first edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Snow-Image and other Twice-told Tales published in 1852. The cover is frayed but intact. No pages are missing. Includes 15 short stories.
Seller: GardensofHansen, Salem, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition First Printing, Octavo, original blindstamped brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Hawthorne's final collection of short stories. Good, spine ends chipped, and moderate shelfwear and wear to fore edge corners, slightly cocked.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good copy bound in full calf with gilt titles on spine. Very light rubbing to fore-edge of front board. Some off-setting on endpapers and title page. Dust-staining to edges of page block. Some light toning near edges of pages. We will send photos upon request.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE SNOW-IMAGE, AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES. Ticknor, Boston, 1852.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [3-7] 8-273 [274: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank; text complete despite gap in pagination] + 4-page publisher's catalogue dated "January, 1852" inserted between the front endpapers, flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, yellow endpapers. First edition, first printing. 2425 copies printed. Published in late December 1851, simultaneous with or several days before the first British edition published by Henry G. Bohn with a title page dated 1851. A collection of sketches and tales including "The Snow-Image," "Ethan Brand," and "The Man of Adamant," the latter a ghost story. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-79. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 778. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 196-99. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1536-43. Bleiler (1978), p. 96. Reginald 06960. BAL 7607. Clark A 19.1.a. Spine lean, cloth worn at spine ends and corners with shallow loss, publisher's ads and first and last text leaves tanned, else a very good copy. (#129756)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Original decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Front and rear panels stamped in blind. 4-page publicher's catalogue dated January, 1852 inserted between the front endpapers. Yellow endpapers. Collection of short stories by American author. Hawthorne's third major collection of sketches and tales includes five fantasy stories: The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle, Ethan Brand, The Man of Adamant, a ghost story, The Devil in Manuscript, and My Kinsman, Major Molineux. B1670. Very good, chips to spine ends, general wear to binding, some signatures near center nearly loose, slightly cocked.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. 12mo (19cm). Blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt; pale yellow endpapers; 273,[1]pp; 4pp publisher's catalogue inserted at front, dated January 1852. A straight copy, rubbed, with wear at extremities, occasional foxing: Good or better. Though the title page reads 1852, the book was actually published in December 1851, with the American edition likely preceding the London edition (Clark 197). CLARKa19.1.a. BAL 7607.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Soiled boards and chipped spine, small bookplate had shadowing to opposite page, light foxing, bumped chipped corners, previous owner markings inner boards, previous owner stamp on first title listings page 4 pages of ads for other book collection of 15 short stories 1852 title page, 1851 copyright page DATE PUBLISHED: 1852 EDITION: 1ST ED, 1ST PR 273
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales" by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 1852 1st edition, 1st printing (with a publisher's four-page catalog dated January, 1852 at the front); Ticknor, Reed, and Fields; Boston. The book is a collection of 15 short stories including The Snow-Image - A Childish Miracle, The Great Stone Face, Ethan Brand, The Canterbury Pilgrims, The Devil in Manuscript, The Wives of the Dead, Old Ticonderoga - A Picture of the Past.please see the photos for the complete list. Condition: There are a few light stains on the cover; the bottom-right corner of the back cover has a few tiny, dark stain specks. Cloth tears at the corners of the covers. The top and bottom edges of the spine are worn down. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Consistent foxing to the pages. Pages 38-47 have dark stains at the lower-outer corners. Ex-library copy with a library label affixed to the front pastedown, and a card sleeve & date slip affixed to the rear end paper and pastedown. There is an inscription dated 1852 written in pen on a front end paper. The letter "H" in "Hawthorne" on the title page has 2 small underlines in pencil. Overall the book is in Good- condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, [3]-273 pages. In Good condition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt text on spine. Boards show heavy rubbing to corners exposing boards, spine edges chipped off, bumping to corners, damp staining on front cover, and moderate edgewear and shelfwear. Textblock has mild to moderate uneven age toning, mild foxing to many pages, and damp staining to forward pages along head edge. Shelved Room A. BAL 7607. 1371827. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: 273 pages. 16.5 x 12 cm. Four pages of publisher adverts at front of book with ads dated January 1852. This, the final collection of short stories written by Hawthorne was reputed to be his least popular book, commercially. BAL 7607. Rubbing to spine head and foot. Orig. brown publisher's cloth sharp, with front and back cover decorations in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo (17.9 x 10.8 cm). 273 pages, 4-page advertisements dated January 1852 inserted before front endpapers. Original brown ribbed blind embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Though the US and UK editions were intended for simultaneous publication, the American publication probably preceded by several days. 2,425 copies were printed on 11 December 1851. Containing 17 stories, including the oft-taught "Major Molineaux." BAL 7607; Clark A19.1.a. Ends of spine chipped, lower front corner worn; a few intermittent foxmarks, generally a clean and fresh copy
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Issue, with ads dated January, 1852 inserted between front pale yellow end papers. Very Good in original embossed brown boards, gilt lettering, wear at spine ends and corners, scattered toning, faint contemporsry owners name front end paper. The final collection of tales by Hawthorne published in his lifetime, and the least commercially successful of his published works. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: Brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine ends frayed, upper board shows some faint spotting, extreme fore-tip of inserted catalogue darkened, a trace of occasional foxing, but a good, sound copy. First (U.S.) edition, probably preceding the British edition according to Clark, or possibly simultaneous with it, according to BAL. This is one of the copies with the inserted 4pp. of ads in front (no priority) - in this case, dated January 1852. A total of 2425 copies were printed. CLARK A19.1.a. BAL 7607. WRIGHT II:1140. BLEILER (SUPERNATURAL) 778.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$336.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 273. Bound in brown cloth stamped in blind on the covers and gilt on the spine. Contemporary ownership signtaure on the end paper, adv. dated January, 1852. Cloth worn off at the extremities of the spine, a very good copy. BAL 7607; Clark A19.1a. Printed in an edition of 2425 copies. This is a collection of 17 tales and sketches. The best remembered are "Ethan Brand" and "My Kinsman Major Molineaux."
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing and with the earliest state (January, 1852) of the publisher's ad catalogue. 8vo, publisher's original Ticknor ribbed brown cloth, style A with the covers stamped in blind, the spine lettered in gold and stamped in blind. yellow coated endpapers, the ad catalogue inserted in the front. 4 ads., 273 pp. A nice copy of a book rarely found so, the binding is firm and tight, the textblock solid. The brown cloth with a bit of spotting and a bit of wear at the extremities, the ads with a bit of spotting and marking. FIRST EDITION of this collection of tales and stories, some appearing here for the first time. After publishing his collection Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846, Hawthorne mostly turned away from the short tales that had marked the majority of his career up until that point. This collection marked a return to that format, just in time to be the final collection of writings to be published during his lifetime. Fifteen tales are included, the new ones include 'The Snow Image', 'The Great Stone Face', 'Main Street', and 'Ethan Brand'.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Issue binding. An attractive copy with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with minor wear to the edges. There is NO marks or bookplates in the book. A very good copy bound in the publisher's original cloth.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Publisher: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1852 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the earliest publisher's ads dated January, 1852 inserted before the front endpapers. Binding is the publisher's brown cloth decorative device blind-stamped. Binding is in very good plus condition. Spine ends neatly repaired. Gold lettering on spine bright. Contents clean, but with light foxing to first to free endpapers and less so to the title-page. Verso of the last page toned with age. 273 pages. 5 x 7 ¼ inches. BAL 7607. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #23-258. Price: $500.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales. Ticknor and Company, 1852.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Snow Image And Other Twice Told Tales 1852 Near Fine First Issue with advertisements dated January 1852 Additional Photos Available Upon Request Ticknor and Company
Seller: D & L Fine Books, Richboro, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$605.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing and with the earliest state (January, 1852) of the publisher's ad catalogue. 8vo, publisher's original Ticknor ribbed brown cloth, style A with the covers stamped in blind, the spine lettered in gold and stamped in blind. yellow coated endpapers, the ad catalogue inserted in the front. 4 ads., 273 pp. A tight, strong and clean copy, the text unusually fresh with only minor age mellowing evident, the cloth is unfaded with strong gilt, there is some wear at the corners and spine tips, still, a much nicer copy than is typically seen. FIRST EDITION of this collection of tales and stories, some appearing here for the first time. After publishing his collection Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846, Hawthorne mostly turned away from the short tales that had marked the majority of his career up until that point. This collection marked a return to that format, just in time to be the final collection of writings to be published during his lifetime. Fifteen tales are included, the new ones include 'The Snow Image', 'The Great Stone Face', 'Main Street', and 'Ethan Brand'.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE SNOW-IMAGE, AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES. Ticknor, Boston, 1852.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [3-7] 8-273 [274: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank; text complete despite gap in pagination] + 4-page publisher's catalogue dated "January, 1852" inserted between the front endpapers, flyleaf at rear, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, yellow endpapers. First edition, first printing. 2425 copies printed. Published in late December 1851, simultaneous with or several days before the first British edition published by Henry G. Bohn with a title page dated 1851. Hawthorne's third major collection of sketches and tales includes five fantasy stories: "The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle," "Ethan Brand," "The Man of Adamant," a ghost story, "The Devil in Manuscript," and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux." Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-79. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 778. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 196-99. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1536-43. Bleiler (1978), p. 96. Reginald 06960. BAL 7607. Clark A 19.1.a. Touch of wear to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, a nearly fine copy. A lovely copy of a book seldom found in superior condition. (#157083)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original brown cloth. Some chipping, two gatherings sprung. Morocco case. John Greenleaf Whittier s copy of the first edition, with his ownership signature and bookplate. A fine association between two important figures in 19th-century American literature. The Quaker poet and abolitionist would later be best-remembered for his 1866 work Snow-Bound. The present copy also includes a letter from Samuel T. Pickard, Whittier s nephew and eventual executor who was also the publisher of spurious excerpts from Hawthorne s diary in the 1860s. Provenance: 1. John Greenleaf Whittier, bookplate and signature. 2. Samuel T. Pickard, inscription and accompanying Autograph letter signed to Miss H.D. Richardson. Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1 August 1904. 8 pp letter regarding Whittier s library, family copies, and this copy of Hawthorne s Snow-Image.
Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the earliest publisher's ads dated January, 1852 inserted before the endpapers. The book is bound in the publisher's brown cloth with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.