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Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two voulme set bound in two-toned cloth with white spine over redish boards. Spines lettered in gold and covers bear decorative gilt embossing. Top edges gilt. Endpapers toned and paper on inner hinges cracked, though hinges are quite sound. Both volumes illustrated with full page photogravure plates complete with tissue guardes, [vol. I 27 plates]; [vol. II 24 plates]. Publishers advertisement and Introductory Note by George Parsons Lathrop in vol. I. No name, no book-plate, etc. A very nice set with mild darkening to white spine cloth and minor shelf wear, but overall a superior set of the American classic.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
(Literature) HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1890.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 1/4 X 8 1/8 Inches. Complete two-volume set in the original red and white cloth binding. Gilt decoration and title stamping to spine and covers. Unused PO bookplate affixed to front pastedown of each volume. Hint of scuffing to edges and boards. Light foxing and toning. A well preserved set in gift-worthy condition.
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete in two volumes. Illustrated with photogravures from various sources. Some blemishes and discoloration to boards and tanned spine wraps. Corners and spine ends bumped and frayed. Previous owner's inscription on front endpapers of both volumes, otherwise all pages are clean and unmarked though tanned. All hinges but rear of Vol. 2 are cracked, with several instances of split binding throughout both. Smells faintly of smoke.
Seller: Sparrow's Bookshop, IOBA, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$81.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper of each volume (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Boards soiled, spines and endpapers lightly foxed, 1/2 inch closed tear to spine head of second volume. 1890 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. ii, 266; [267]-527, [3] pp. 8vo. paginated continuously. 8 1/8 x 5 3/8. Photogravures throughout text. Original red cloth boards, cream spines appear to be cloth imitating vellum. Gilt borders, decorations, and top page ridge. A great edition of this interesting title by the author most well-known for The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known as Transformation, was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. The Marble Faun, written on the eve of the American Civil War, is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 ? May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. He later changed his name to "Hawthorne", adding a "w" to dissociate from relatives including John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated in 1825; his classmates included future president Franklin Pierce and future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawthorne anonymously published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828. He published several short stories in various periodicals which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The next year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at a Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to The Wayside in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, leaving behind his wife and their three children. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers around New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, 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 friend Franklin Pierce.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni By Nathaniel Hawthorne Illustrated with Photogravures Complete in Two Volumes, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1890, frontispieces with illustrations, cream and red cloth with red dust jackets, 8.5 x 5.5, 8vo. In fair condition. Dust jackets poor. Volume one dust jacket spine faded, chipped at edges. Volume two dust jacket spine missing with only flaps remaining. Flaps are worn and stained. Cloth is good with light soiling to cream spines and minor rubbing to extremities. Gilt tooling remains clean and bright. End papers irregularly toned in each volume. Interior lightly toned with scattered foxing.light offsetting from plates. Tissue guards lightly toned but intact. Free of markings or ownership. Mid-gutter of volume two is shaken otherwise bindings are intact. Please see photos. Scarce edition. Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. - Hawthorne
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Scarce Edition in Cloth Dust Jacket. Octavo. Complete in Two Volumes. Red slipcase, tan paper on rear foredge, gilt title and illustration on short edge, red cloth over boards, faux vellum over red decorated boards, top edge gilt, red bookmark ribbon attached on both, illlustrated with photogravures. Very good slipcase and dust jacket, wear and discoloration heaviest around edges of slipcase, spines of dust jacket faded and spotted, wear to spine edges, near fine overall, pastedowns and free and papers darkened slightly.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Story, William Wetmore. CONVERSATIONS IN A STUDIO: Volumes I and II. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1890.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Complete in two volumes. By the American ex-pat sculptor perhaps most famous for his works "Cleopatra" (described in Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE MARBLE FAUN) and "Angel of Grief" sculpted for the grave of his wife in Rome and replicated elsewhere. CONVERSATIONS IN A STUDIO collects and expands on Story's "In a Studio" pieces for Blackwood's Magazine, which are dialogues between two imaginary men in a studio -- "Belton" and "Mallett" -- who amiably bloviate on quite a wide range of topics and themes ranging from art and beauty to politics and people. William Wetmore Story (1819-1895) gave up the practice of law in Boston to study sculpture in Italy, where his "studio in Rome became something of a literary salon, frequented by his friends Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, and Henry James, who would later write Story's biography" and who counted among his closest friends, the English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning [website of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts]. 12mo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; top edges gilt; 578 pages including 24-page index. Bright and nearly fine with Boston bookseller labels in each volume and small "Accept our thanks for remittance" card laid in. Scarce with both volumes present in the first printing.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete 13 volume set. Extraordinary tooled 3/4 leather bindings with gilt lettering and designs, marbled boards, marbled end pages and painted page edges. All bindings are tight & complete with clean & bright pages. Most of the set is very good+ with supple leather and only light wear to the edges and spine, except Volume 11 and 13 with 2/3rds of spine covers missing and leather flaking. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of all volumes. Fantastic gift set. Uncommon as complete.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.