Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$7.73 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair used condition, ex library, edges rubbed, spine faded, preliminary pages damaged, stuck down inside cover, one page torn in half, library markings etc, some wear & marks, etc.
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Red cloth boards with white cloth spine. Gold colored decorations on front and rear cover. Gold colored design line, vertically along spine/cover joints. Gold tinted headedge. Spine is heavily sun darkened. Top edges of cover show sunning.Spine headpiece is missing. Corner tips and bottom end of spine lightly worn. Front inner end paper is rumpled along hinge line. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Sound and otherwise unmarked. 257 pages. Volume II only
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 books. 1890 copyright but inscription inside each is dated 1888. Moderate discoloring and wear to the decorated covers; a couple stains; cracked hinge; pages toned; a good set of 2 old volumes. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Classics; Inventory No: 199025. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Binding: red & white cloth w/gilt ornamentation & lettering. Condition: some soiling & spotting to bindings, especially on the spines; endpapers lightly tanned; else in very good condition. Illustrated by B&W plates. Reprint edition.
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, 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$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards with moderate wear to extremities and with light soiling. Spines a bit darkened. Hinges started. Minor browning to endpapers; Top edge gilt. Two volumes with photogravures, illustrating points of interest in Italy; Photo-gravure; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 527 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, 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$47.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1890, 527pp, ilus. w/ 51 photogravures, teg, red w/ white spines, gilt decorations & gilt lettering to spine, all plates are present, corners slightly bumped, some soiling to covers, heavier to spines, waterstain to bottom edges of spines & slightly along bottom edges of covers, does not affect interior, wear to spine ends, owner's name & book stor stamp to fep, front inner hinge starting, browning to eps, no dj, one page w/ small tear, 2 pgs w/ browning from newspaper clipping, otherwise contents clean & unmarked.
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two volumes. Octavos. Red and white cloth with decorative gilt-stamping, top edges gilt, red silk bookmark. Illustrated with photogravures. Offsetting on endpapers, spine lightly tanned, else a near fine set lacking the dustwrappers.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, 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.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni. Houghton Mifflin, 1890.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two volumes, 8vo, half white art vellum with red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, top edges gilt, red silk bookmark ribbons, illustrated with 48 photogravures protected by titled tissue guards. Immaculate copies in the original plain red cloth dust jackets, which are edge-worn, especially at extremities of spines. Gift inscription on front free endpaper of Volume I. In the original slipcase, which is also covered with red cloth and printed on the end.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, 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$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 vols. Scarce in unique sponge-pattern binding- blue and red spines with yellow and red boards. Minor tanning to spines. Light shelf/age wear. Pages/boards clean and vibrant, bindings sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.20 + shipping
Description: Two Volumes. Hardback, 8vo. Approx 8 x 5.5 inches. In polished full calf leather fine bindings, with decorative gilt paneled boards, full gilt decorations to spines with twin maroon leather spine labels. Gilt edge dentelles. Marbled endpapers and gilt top page edges. In very good conditions. Some minor rubbing to corners of boards and also to labels on spines. A couple of minor handling marks to boards including some spots to front board and fading to rear edge of vol.1. Small private bookself label to endpapers ?Y.4.? Inside pages all very clean, bright and tight. No penned inscriptions. No foxing or darkening to pages. Else very good clean and tight copies. 2 vols: 266 - 527pp. Illustrated with 51 (27 & 24) B&W gravure plates, all with titled tissue guards. Riverside Press title vignettes in red. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title 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.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Marble Faun. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1890.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: These books measure 8" x 5.25", with 266 numbered pages in Vol I and 572 numbered pages in Vol II. Top edges gilt. These books are both in very good condition. Minor wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Light sunning to both spines. Gilt lettering on spines and front boards well preserved. Vol. I has a gift inscription on the front endpaper and annotations on rear endpaper. "The Marble Faun" was the last of four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Written on the eve of the American Civil War, this novel is set in a fantastical Italy. This romance focuses on four main characters and mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N1-17).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. Houghton Mifflin, 1890.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes - printed by Riverside Press, Cambridge - beautiful gilt designs and lettering on cover and spines - very bright on cover, faded on spine - some rubbing on bottom of spine on volume 2 - illustrated with photogravures - ex-library
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.77 + shipping
Description: Illustrated edition of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, with numerous full-page photogravures with titled tissue-guards; in the 19th Century Hawthorne's romance was employed by readers as a virtual cultural guide to Rome, and many collected photographs and prints which they interleaved in the pages of the book; the publishers thus prepared the current illustrated edition which includes photogravures of fifty subjects, architectural sites, statues, paintings, etc; half white cloth with red cloth sides, gilt decorations to sides, gilt titling to spines, top edge gilt; this copy in the scarce original format, with unprinted red cloth dustwrappers, red silk bookmarks, and housed in a slipcase with titling to top side; volume i with dampstain to head of spine, vol ii with minor dampstain to tail of spine; both volumes with former owner's name to front endpaper, medium-heavy tanning to endpapers, prelims and text block, scattered foxing, some offset from plates, o.w. G-VG throughout; dustwrappers sunned and spotted to spines, o.w. Good; slipcase rubbed and scuffed, and with some worn patches. Dustwrapper. 527pp. 2 volumes 8vo. G-VG in Good dustwrappers in rubbed and scuffed slipcase G-VG in Good dustwrappers in rubbed and scuffed slipcase
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 2vols., top edge gilt., vol. 1: top and bottom of spine fraying, corners bumped and fraying., binding slightly loose. vol.2: top and bottom of spine fraying, corners bumped and fraying., atains on top edge and front cover.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two vols, gilt-decorated red cloth with white faux-vellum spines, profusely illustrated with photogravures, in the plain red stiffened cloth dust-wrappers and fine slipcase. Size: 8vo
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing thus. Vol. 1 has 266 pp. Vol. 2 continues pagination to p. 527. Illustrated with photogravures. TEG. Red silk bookmarks remain attached and have left shadows. Bound in red cloth with a wrap-around cream or white cloth spine with a gold decoration on the red cloth and white lettering and decoration on the white spine. The binding design is by Sarah Whitman. Each volume is in a stiff red paper dust cover or jacket and both come enclosed in a similarly red slipcase with matching gold lettering and decoration on the top of the slipcase. The books are unmarked inside except for shadows left by the dust cover inside flaps. There is light foxing on the reverse of the frontispiece of the author in volume 1. There are one or two tiny spots on the white part of the bindings; otherwise, the covers themselves are in fine condition with the gold remaining bright. The dust jackets show slight fraying at the spine tops and the spines are faded (there is no design on the spines) but overall remain in very good condition. The slipcase shows very little wear (the corners are not worn) but there are a few spots of soil; thus, also in very good condition.
Seller: Alberta's Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.50 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First Edition thus. With 27 full-page photogravure plates in Vol. I and 24 in Vol. II. 8vo, handsomely bound in three-quarter crimson calf over red cloth covered boards, the spines with raised bands separating the compartments which are ruled in gilt and decorated with central gilt ornaments bordered by tooling in gilt, two compartments with burgundy morocco lettering labels gilt, the endleaves of handsomely patterned paper, top edges gilt. ii, 266; 268-527 pp. A very handsome and pleasing set. The text blocks are clean and the bindings are tight and well preserved with only minor evidence of age or use. FIRST EDITION OF THIS HANDSOME ILLUISTRATED SET OF HAWTHORNE'S ROMANCE WRITTEN DURING HIS SOJOURN IN ITALY. Italy was the site of this, one of Hawthornes most popular books. Of it, the writer said, "No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes, either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable events of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow." John Lothrop Motley wrote to Hawthorne that " I like those shadowy, weird, fantastic, Hawthornesque shapes flitting through the golden gloom which is the atmosphere of the book. I like the misty way in which the story is indicated rather than revealed. The outlines are quite definite enough, from the beginning to the end, to those who have imagination enough to follow you in your airy flights; and to those who complain, I suppose nothing less than an illustrated edition with a large gallows on the last page, with Donatello in the most pensive of attitudes, his ears revealed at last through a white nightcap, would be satisfactory." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called it a "wonderful book" and William Dean Howells wrote that it would ".[yield] him that full honor and praise which a writer can hope for but once in his life."
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun, Or the Romance of Monte Beni. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890.
Price: US$209.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus. Two volumes. Decorated binding; designnot attributed. Buckram DJs and a publisher's slipcase. Book cover and spine lettering intact; bottom rear edge of Vol. 1 lightly bumped. Hinges cracked but holding. TEG. Illustrated with 50 photogravures. Prior owners' bookplates on FEP of each volume; otherwise, unmarked pages. A handsome set of this classic and important American novel. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good DJs Will insure at buyer's expense, if requested.
Seller: Ironwood Books, Tucson, AZ, 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.