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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Textured brown cloth on boards with dark brown leather and gilt titling label to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out, other than some dents/markings to front cloth and minor scuffing to head of spine. Top edge bright gilt, endpapers pale green. Volume V only of the 12 Volume set "Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop and Illustrated with Etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner. The Riverside Edition.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$459.41 + shipping
Description: 12 volumes. Fine Binding. Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In quarter-bound leather fine bindings by ?Douglas & Foulis, Edinburgh.? Polished black morocco leather to spines and corners with marbled paper to boards, raised banding to spines, with gilt lettering and blind embossed paneled decorations, blind embossed details to leather on boards. Marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. In very good conditions. Some minor rubbing to edges corners with some bumps and small chips, nearly all top ends of spines are thinly chipped. some minor rubbing to boards. Binders labels to edges of front endpapers. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Plates all clean and bright, all tissue guarded. No fixing or spots. Else a very good clean and tight set. 12 vols. Each illustrated with a B&W engraved frontis plate and a title-page vignette. Etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw and Turner. Complete in 12 Volumes.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Thirteen volumes. Small octavo. Publisher's three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards. Ribbon ties. The Wayside Edition. A handsomely bound set of this American writer's works. It is in very good condition with all bindings tight and firm. A few volumes have some light scuffing and wear to the spine tips and Vol. 11 is lightly chipped at the top of the spine. The text in all volumes is very good and clean with light wear. Foreign postage extra on this heavy set.
Seller: Centerbridge Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1976.00 + shipping
Description: 248 x 159 mm. (9 3/4 x 6 1/4"). 13 volumes. Introductory notes to each volume by George Parsons Lathrop. Restrained but attractive early 20th century brown crushed morocco by Ernst Hertzberg & Sons (stamp-signed on rear free endpaper), covers with frame formed by pairs of plain gilt rules and a single gilt dot at each corner, raised bands, spine compartments gilt in the same design as the covers, gilt titling, turn-ins densely gilt in a palmette pattern, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges rough trimmed. All 13 volumes with frontispieces and title pages with etched vignette. A Large Paper Copy on laid paper. Title pages in red and black. Clark B-10; BAL 7643. âSpines faintly and evenly sunned, just a hint of wear to the tops of three spines, but A BEAUTIFUL SET, the lustrous bindings almost entirely unworn, and the text unusually clean, fresh, and bright. One of the major figures in the history of literature in the United States, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) was among those who first inspired the idea of "American literature," a national literature that could take its place alongside its long-established European forebears. Probably more than any other writer of stature in 19th century America, Hawthorne combined vivid imagination with careful, structured craft. In addition to his great achievements--"The Scarlet Letter" of 1850 and "The House of Seven Gables" (1851)--our handsome edition contains all of the lesser narrative and non-fiction writings, including voluminous entries from his journals, said to contain upwards of 300,000 words. This copy has the original 12 volumes that normally make up the set, along with an additional 13th volume containing "Doctor Grimshawe's Secret," edited by Julian Hawthorne. Ernst Hertzberg, who learned to bind in his native Germany, went to work as a finisher for the Ringer bindery after immigrating to Chicago, and he eventually became a partner in the business. He also collected Napoleonic prints and documents with the goal of binding an extra-illustrated edition of William Milligan Sloane's "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte." The completed project was exhibited at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, where it won top honors for bookbinding. Hertzberg sold the set to a private collector for the then-staggering sum of $12,000, which allowed him to buy out his partner and set up his own bindery. No. 68 OF 250 COPIES of the "Riverside Edition.".
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1883.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 15 volumes. Frontispiece etching and etched title page vignette in each volume. Etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw and Turner. Tall thick 8vos, handsomely bound by Charles E. Lauriat in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards; ornate gilt-decorated spines with raised bands; uncut edges, top edges gilt. Cambridge: Riverside Press/University Press, 1883, 1884. Several volumes have neat repairs at head and rubbing at joints, still a near attractive set. Limited edition -- number 106 of 250 numbered copies on large paper. First 12 volumes: The Complete Works (1883, Riverside Press #106). 1 Volume: Doctor Grimshawe's Secret (1883, University Press #106). 2 volumes: Hawthorne and His Wife (1884, University Press #114).
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.