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Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards in embossed brown cloth, very good w/ wear top and bottom of spine and corners. 284p., volume one of two volume format of this lengthy work. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VOL.1. ONLY OF TWO VOLUME SET.NAME AND AUG.1860 ON FFEP.16 PAGE BOOK CATALOGUE DATED MARCH 1860 AT THE BACK OF THE BOOK.BROWN CLOTH BINDING WITH GILT LETTERING ON THE SPINE STILL BRIGHT.CORNERS HEAVILY WORN.SOME DAMP WRINKLES TO CLOTH,EDGEWEAR AND LIGHT SOIL.BINDING TIGHT,CONTENTS CLEAN.PAPER BROWNING LIGHTLY THROUGHOUT.SOME FAINT WATER STAINS IN MARGINS.GLUE RESIDUE INSIDE BACK COVER.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Head of spine missing piece of cloth. Worn on edges, spine ends. Corners bumped and worn. Moderately soiled. Inside front board, bookplate. Inside back board, writing in pencil. Page 43 missing small piece. Cocked spine. 283 pages.
Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Volume II only. 284 pages. Half leather with raised bands to spine. Fraying to corners. Wear along spine edges. Some edgewear. Owner's bookplate front endpaper. Else, very good condition. (R1)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Book Condition: Good / brown stamped cloth light wear at corners. spine-ends moderate wear. some pages have water stains at top left corner otherwise clean. binding good.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 1 only. Decorative brown boards with stamped designs and gilt lettering on the spine. first edition/later issue with date of May, 1860 on the 16 pages of advertising in rear. Binding tight and complete; edges worn; end pages and page edges with light damp staining from many years ago; pages dusty. The Marble Faun was the last of the four major romances by Hawthorne, and was written on the eve of the American Civil War and set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 764p. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 black leather with green cloth boards. Edges scuffed, spine crackly-looking, and cloth quite faded. Early owner's markings in text, but most pages clean. Binding secure. Volume 5 of THE ATLANTIC, containing all issues from January through June 1860. Contains a review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE MARBLE FAUN.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition with March 1860 ads in volume one the preface preceding the contents. Two volumes. Full blindstamped decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, slight cock to spines, Merrick G. Clapp's small bookplate to volume 2. Clean set, as shown, collectible. A classic. Wonderful, gift worthy. We are a small, independent bookshop dedicated to providing fine used books.
Seller: Howard's Books, Leicester, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth hardcover, 283 pages. A first edition, ads at rear of volume are dated March 1860. Pages are clean, text unmarked, binding is sound. Some bumping to corners, crown and foot of spine. A chip to one of the final pages. A handsome copy, overall. Volume one (1) only.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. 2 Vols.. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1860.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Spine ends and corners worn; slightly cocked.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun - Volume II, First Edition, 1860. , 1860.
Price: US$35.15 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 12mo, volume II ONLY. Dated 1860 on both copyright and title pages. First U.S. edition, early printing with *9* beneath the text on page 197. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: White Mountains, Rare Books and Maps, Lincoln, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 2 only. In original brown cloth with gilt spine titling and upper board stamped in blind, small 8vo 284pp. Shelfwear, rubbing to extremities, tips and corners, toning to page edges from age; spot stain to foreedge margins for first 20 pages, some staining to page margins at lower tip rear, pp155-156 detached) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition, 2nd state: Contents precedes Preface; "for" on p. 225 of vol. 1; ads dated March 1860. G+: Both volumes show some overall wear and rubbing, particularly to bottom of boards; chipping at spine ends; binding tight; pages clean, with a minimum of foxing and occasional small wear tears at corners; p/o name and 1860 date in light pencil on half-title page. A not-bad copy of Hawthorne's last major romance novel, set in a fantastical Italy. 283 pages + 16 pages of ads; 284 pages.
Seller: Washington Square Autographed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volume set. 19 x 12 cm. 12mo. 283pp 16pp ads, 284pp. First edition, second printing as per BAL. Bound in brown blind-stamped cloth. 16 page publisher's catalogue dated March, 1860. Bit of spotting to the pages. Head and tails of spines are a bit chipped. There is a bit of sticker residue to front endpaper of volume 1. BAL 7621.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Decorative dark brown silk, blindstamping to boards (floral, ruling), gilt titles, chocolate brown endpapers. 284 pp. Short closed tear to front endpaper, corner missing to rear blank endpaper (uncolored), previous owner name and 1860 date to half-title. Light chipping to top of spine, light fraying to bottom of spine. Very good.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In two volumes.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Marble Faun; The Romance of Monte Beni. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1860.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo. 2 volumes. v1: [xi], 283, [16 pp. / v2: 284 pp. Cloth bindings, gilt lettering, blind stamped cover design, gift inscription, good set. (93937g).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Description: Fourth printing. 12mo (19cm). Two volumes in blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt on spines; red-brown coated endpapers; [i]-[xiv] [15]-283,[1],16pp; 288pp; 16pp publisher's catalogue inserted at rear of vol. 1, dated May, 1860. Straight volumes, gently loosened and rubbed, vol. I with mild dampstaining to lower edge of textblock, vol. 2 with dampstaining to lower half of textblock and boards, around Good. The first printing to include the Conclusion, which Hawthorne added in response to readers' complaints about the originally ambiguous ending. CLARK A23.3.d. BAL 7624.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$81.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second American edition (BAL 7624). Bindings slightly shaken, boards lightly rubbed with corners slightly exposed, discoloration on front board of first volume, front flyleaf of both volumes removed. 1860 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. xi, [12]-283; 288 pp. Original brown cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders and decorations. A novel 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$83.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, [4], 16-283, [5], [1]-16 (pages of publisher's advertisements, with many offerings of works by Hawthorne, Longellow, Tennyson, etc.), [2]; [7], 8-288, [2] pp. Blindstamped brown cloth with gold lettering on each spine. Second American edition as per BAL, with the conclusion added to the end of volume two. BAL 7624. A Very Good, slightly askew set with moderate wear to the spine tips and corners of the cloth, endpapers of each volume show a few small owner's markings.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$87.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (Later printing). Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 283pp.; 288pp.and 16pp.(publisher's adv., dated September, 1860). Each vol.: Front and rear boards somewhat rubbed and corners worn. Spine somewhat worn at upper and bottom edges. Edges foxing. E.ps.sl.stained. Pencil notations to front e.p.and front flyleaf. Pages somewhat foxing. Vol.1: Front board and from front e.p.to p.132 chipped at upper corner. [f1213-171321]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo, 2 volumes, 283pp., 284pp. A good set in the publisher's brown cloth, stamped in blind. Both volumes very gently soiled, worn at the spine ends, and the signatures are a bit loose, but holding. Previous owner's inscription on a front free blank in vol. I. Spine of volume II cocked. Despite some mild age-toning and perhaps half a dozen stray pencil markings, internally a clean set. Rear free endpaper of vol. 1. seems to have been excised. Mixed issue, with the following issue points: In volume I: 16pp. of ads dated March 1860; Preface precedes Contents; This sentence appears on p. 225, line 22: "[.]a providence or purpose for Hilda, if on no other human creature.". In volume II: No conclusion chapter. Altogether a presentable set of an early state of this Hawthorne classic; in no way a fine example, but better than many copies in commerce.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, First Issue complete in two volumes of this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Issue points include the publisher's catalogue titles at the end of volume 1 dated February 1860, the preface in volume 1 set before the contents, no conclusion in volume 2 and the word "for" on page 225 of volume 1. Both volumes are brown cloth with gilt titles. Volume 1 is in Very Good to Good condition with rubbed spots on the top corners of the fore edge on both covers and edge wear at the top and bottom of the spine. Volume 2 is in Good condition with a previous owner name on the front endpaper (with a March 1860 date) a 1" chip on the back edge at the top of the spine and a 1/2" chip on the fore edge at the bottom of the spine.
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes, the second edition, published by Ticknor and Fields in 1860. ( Please see Blanck, 7624.) Blanck states that there were three printings of the first edition, published March of 1860. Publishers records indicate four printings between March and September, and an additional printing _ the second edition - issued in April of that year. MDCCCLX to title page, with brown coated endpapers. In publishers original blind stamped brown cloth. This edition is distinguished from the three prior printings by the addition of a conclusion on pages 284 through 288 of the second volume. Preface appears prior to the table of contents, no adds to either volume. A very good copy with some wear to tips and spinal extremities to both volumes, bookplate to both volumes. The second edition would appear to be uncommon.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Ticknor and Fields. 1860. 283 & 284 pgs. Two Volumes. First Edition/Second Printing. 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "March, 1860" inserted at rear. Boards in Good shape with shelf-wear present to the extremities. Boards are chipped and worn at the spine ends. No ownership marks present. Foxing Present. Stain present to the text block of the bottom edge of the second volume. Catalog pasted to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks. Several loose signature in Volume I. The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. E-026; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, early issue. Two volumes. March 1860 ads and Vol. II says "The End" at its end. Original cloth. Nice condition overall.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Ticknor, Boston, 1860.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, original brown cloth, ends of spine frayed, one gathering loose in v. 2; a good set in original state. Conforms to Clark's plate variant "B" (A23.3.b).
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition, early printing (not the first), with ads dated March 1860. Two volumes. Good or better with name plate pasted in each volume, cloth nicked at spine ends and shallow strip missing along top edge rear board volume one,
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes; brown publisher's cloth. I: 283 pages; 16 pages publisher's ads in the back. Some wear to the spine. II: 284 pages. See= Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #7621 (1). Very good clean copy. Advertisements are dated March 1860.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes. 12mo. 19 cm. No ads inserted. Some old damp stain. Worn original cloth bindings, lettered in gold and stamped in blind. This is apparently the first issue of the first American edition. Published simultaneously in London, in three volumes, by Smith, Elder, and Company, under title: Transformation; or, The romance of Monte Beni. "The MS. of 'The Marble faun' is in a private collection in England, and, in fact, was never in this country, as the American edition was set up from proof-sheets of the English edition." -- Cathcart, Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cleveland, 1905. "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 in the Marble Faun, Chap. 14. W147 / Also Rear. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 vols., original blind stamped brown cloth (extremes of spines chipped, corners bent), gold titles bright; brown coated end-leaves. Boston, 1860. First Edition. Mixed issue, with 16 pages of ads dated March, Table of Contents preceding Preface, but volumne II ending at page 284 without a Conclusion. BAL 7621. Matching bookplates in each volume, text block uniformly age toned, joints sound. A decent set, at a good price.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, two volumes: pp. [i-v] vi-xi [xii-xiv] [15] 16-283 [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks] + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "March, 1860" inserted at rear; [i-vi] [7] 8-284 [285-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panels stamped in gold and blind, brown coated endpapers. First U.S. edition, mixed printing. This copy agrees with Clark's points for his second printing of volume one, including contents leaf preceding preface and signature mark "1*" on page vii, and his first printing of volume two, including signature mark "4*" on page 197. According to the publisher's cost books, there were three printings before publication totaling 8000 copies. BAL gives the publication as 28 February 1860 and states that the book was issued during the period 1-15 March 1860. Clark says the book was "presumably" published 7 March 1860. The British Library received their copy 15 March 1860 and the book was deposited for copyright 10 April 1860. This is an early copy with a gift inscription on the front flyleaf of volume one dated New York 16 March 1860. Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, p. 51. Bleiler (1978), p. 96. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). BAL 7621 (noted printing 2). Clark A23.3.a (plate variant B). Spines leaned, cloth worn at edges, spine ends chipped, volume two lacks the front free endpaper and the rear free endpaper is chipped and creased, still a tight, good set. (#129752)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, later issues with ads dated July, 1860, complete in two volumes, brown cloth over boards, blindstamped with gilt lettering on spines. Last of Hawthorne's major romances, set in a fantastical Italy, the novel tells the tale of a count and a painter and their respective romantic interests. Good, cocked, with spine ends cracked.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: two volumes, original cloth, spines chipped with minor loss at head and base, corners rubbed, joints cracked volume II, ownership signature front free endpapers, good. 283 and 284 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 vols., original blind stamped brown cloth (extremes of spines chipped, corners bent), gold titles bright; brown coated end-leaves. Boston, 1860. First Edition. 16 pages of ads dated March, Table of Contents following Preface, volume II ending at page 284 without a Conclusion. BAL 7621.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: _____BAL=7621.c_____ Clark=A23.3.c____The third printing of the first American edition, in two volumes._____ . _____ The first & second printings have "for" rather than "on" at Volume I, line 22, page 225._____ The fourth printing has "strangelg" for "strangely" at line 3 on page 98 of Volume II. _____ Since this set has the "on" but not the "strangelg" we believe it to be a third printing. _____ Both volumes are slightly cocked, with moderate shelf wear. _____
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. 1 vols. 12mo. BAL 7621 Original brown cloth. Head of spines chipped with some lose to vol. II, vol. I has small nicks at head, name stamp on flyleaves; else fine
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: [First edition, first issue] (see note below). Two volumes. Publisher's original Ticknor and Fields blind-stanped, gilt-lettered brown cloth, now lacking pieces across spine ends and lightly worn at corners; cloth dusty, lettering a touch bronzed; half-titles trimmed diagonally, presumably to remove former owner's name; bookplate; tape stains to front endpapers; a few pages in v.2 a bit soiled, contents otherwise clean and tight; publisher's 16 pp. catalogue dated February 1860 at rear of v.1. While not a collector's copy, certainly a very good one. (N.B. - Preface preceeds Contents; "for" (rather than "on") in line 22, p.225, v.1. Published simultaneously with the UK edition (London: Smith, Elder, 3 vols.), set from the UK proofs.).
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.12mo, first edition, early printing but not the first, pp. xiv, 15-283; vi, 8-288; brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines, blind-stamped decoration and frames on covers. This set has early-state points including the typo on p. 225, V1, and the incorrectly arranged preface and contents, but because the conclusion is present, these books cannot be first-state and likely are the fourth printing or later.Condition of this set: Covers scuffed and discolored in spots, minor losses at spine ends. V2 has a thin dampstain running along the edge of numerous leaves starting at the rear endpaper. Overall very good. Shipments outside the U.S. may be subject to local taxes. Size: 12mo. 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55127.
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavos, 2 Volumes. In Good plus condition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spines and blindstamped ornaments on covers. Boards show rubbing to corners exposing boards, spine edges chipped off, mild edge wear, and moderate shelf wear. Volume 2 has tearing to spine and fore edge of rear cover. Textblocks have light age toning, foxing to some pages, and marking in pencil on some pages of both volumes. Shelved Room A Volume I [i-xiv], [15]-283 with 16 page publisher's catalog. Volume II [1]-284 pages. 1372377. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Marble Faun. Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 1 a bit rubbed and both with wear to corners and spine ends. Volume 1 with name, place, and date of March 21,'60 on the title page. Early or first states with list of books from March 1860 in the back of volume 1. A very good set.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A VERY GOOD condition set, in clean, tidy cloth, with 1.5 cm split to base of rear joint on vol I and signs of a label being removed from base of both spines, and some minor wear to bottom leading edge corners. This volume is the first edition, with the following state points: 1) The preface is before the contents page, 2) No signature to page ix 3) "on" rather than for on p225 4) Ads to vol I dated March 1860 5) No "Conclusion". So, a mixed first and second state volume. This set is tightly bound and clean, with a neat penned number to the base of the preface page. In all, VERY GOOD PLUS, clean and tidy and tight. Hawthorne is one of the great pioneers of American literature, and it's good to see a set in this condition. Great to have on the shelf. The set is heavy and may require a small amount of extra postage outside of UK.
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1860.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Mixed set: second printing of vol. I, third printing of vol. II, with all points as called for in Clark. (Vol. I has the contents leaf preceding the preface, and p. vii signed 1*; vol. II has "Etruscan" on p.92, "strangely" on p.98, and no signature on p.197.) 12mo (19cm). Two volumes in original brown cloth, blindstamped, titled in gilt on spines; red-brown coated endpapers; vol. I: [ii], [i]-xi, [1], [15]-283, [5], 16pp; vol. II: 284pp; vol. I with a 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Sound copies with general minor rubbing and wear; vol. I faded, with dampstaining to upper corner of front board and edges of front endpapers, both vols browning slightly: Good. Preceded by the first UK edition, published under the title Transformation. CLARK A23.3B & C. BAL 7621.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.86 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth with blind-stamped decoration and blind-ruled border to front and rear boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age with corners slightly bumped and frayed. Decorated floral endpapers. Professionally rebacked with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright, clean and strong. Very minor pen annotation to title page of volume 1. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2 pages; Physical desc.: 2 vols (xi, 283, 284, pp) 19 cm. Subject: Americans -- Italy -- Fiction. Women art students -- Fiction. Artists -- Fiction. Summary: Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the 'Marble Faun', Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon, three American expatriates, find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past threatens to lead them into tragedy. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Boston: Ticknor and Fields Co, 1860. In two volumes, brown cloth with gilt lettering. (Correct signing on ix and 197. Preface before Contents. No conclusion to second volume. Catalogue at rear of 1st volume dated February 1860.) Good condition. Both free front endpapers removed. Lettering rubbed in places, wear at head and tail. Light foxing. Light stain on edge of a few pages of 2nd vol.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Marble Faun (2 vols). TICKNOR & FIELDS, BOSTON, 1860.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: faded gilt on spine, pages yellowing, spine worn, previous owners name on front end papersedges rubber, corners bumped DATE PUBLISHED: 1860 EDITION:
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: American novel; 1st ed., later printing; 2 volume set, complete. 16 pages publisher's advertisements vol. 1; Measures 18.9cm (height); original blind stamped brown hardcover cloth worn; spines, frayed; corners bumped; vol.1 back hinge cracked; vol. 2 fore-edge ink stained; book seller's sticker vol.1 endpaper. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. These are Very Good copies of the First Edition, in a mixed state, assumed the Second Printing (there were three). Brown publisher's cloth bindings, blindstamped on the spine and front cover; titling in gilt on the spine. Clean texts; Volume One is xi, 283 pages, with the 16-page publisher's catalog in the rear - dated March, 1860. The Preface is prior to the Table of Contents. Volume two has 288 pages. These are ex-library copies, but with minimal treatments. The front paste-downs have bookplates from the "Baker Free Library" (in New Hampshire, still in existence) and "Presented by Henry M. Baker" (1841-1912). Both volumes previuously had pockets attached to the rear paste-down. Rubbed at the head and foot of the spines; some bubbling to covers. Gilt is dulled but readable. In archival plastic protectors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, mixed issue, with contents preceding preface and with on instead of for on p. 225 line 22, with ads dated March in vol. I, but without "Conclusion" in vol. II. 2 vols. 12mo. BAL 7621 Original brown cloth, minor rubbing at head and base of spines, else near fine First edition, mixed issue, with contents preceding preface and with on instead of for on p. 225 line 22, with ads dated March in vol. I, but without "Conclusion" in vol. II.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth with blind-stamped decoration and blind-ruled border to front and rear boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age with corners slightly bumped and frayed. Decorated floral endpapers. Professionally rebacked with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright, clean and strong. Very minor pen annotation to title page of volume 1. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2 pages; Physical desc.: 2 vols (xi, 283, 284, pp) 19 cm. Subject: Americans -- Italy -- Fiction. Women art students -- Fiction. Artists -- Fiction. Summary: Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the 'Marble Faun', Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon, three American expatriates, find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past threatens to lead them into tragedy. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, 12mo (18.2 x 11.5 cm). Half-titles, 16-page advertisements dated March 1860 at end of vol. 1. Original brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spines. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second printing. BAL 7621; Clark A23.3.b. Chipped at ends of spines, wear at corners, internally fine
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Two octavos in blind-stamped & ornamentedpolished brown cloth; brown paste-downs and endpapers; Volume One: [2], xi, [2], 16-283 pages ; Volume Two: 284 pages. 16 pages of publisher's advertisements at end of volume 1. 19 cm. "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.[W]ritten on the eve of the American Civil War, [it] is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide."-Wikipedia. American Literature. Nobility -- Fiction. Artists -- Fiction. Women art students -- Fiction. Americans -- Italy -- Fiction. Meurtre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Artistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Étudiantes en art -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Americans. Artists. Murder. Nobility. Women art students. Fiction. Publishers' advertisements -- United States -- 19th century -- Ticknor and Fields. Rome (Italy). Boards mildly worn, edges faintly foxed, rubbed in parts; personal owner stamps and names; else tight, clean and overall a very good(+) set. Tiny b&w illus bookplate of John Ruyle to front paste-downs; personal owner names and stamps of previous owners, including small stamp of one Peyton Brooks to a few leaves. Appears that an 'errant' secondary front free endpaper may have been removed from volume one though no such paper exist (or lack of evidence of removal) in volume two, thus perhaps a 'corrected' bindery error.
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, two volumes: pp. [i-v] vi-xi [xii-xiv] [15] 16-283 [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks] + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "March, 1860" inserted at rear; [i-vi] [7] 8-284 [285-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panels stamped in gold and blind, brown coated endpapers. First U.S. edition, first printing. This copy agrees with Clark's points for his first printing, including signature mark "1*" on page ix of volume one. Published simultaneously (or nearly so) with the UK edition, which was titled THE TRANSFORMATION . Hawthorne's last major work of fiction, making use of his travels in Europe, especially Italy, in the late 1850s. As in most of his work, the weird and fantastic smolders underneath mundane events. "THE MARBLE FAUN, though it is severely flawed in other ways, is a good example of fairy tale and novel moving in opposite directions to good effect. As a fantasy, the story tells of a young man's journey to maturity. Donatello leaves home, meets the princess, slays the evil magician, flees, and ultimately, one hopes, gains both kingdom and bride. In the real world, however, Donatello's act is a crime, and his story is not a fairy tale but tempered tragedy." - Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, p. 51. Bleiler (1978), p. 96. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). BAL 7621 (noted printing 1). Clark A23.3.a (plate variant A). Cloth worn at edges, spine ends chipped, a few scattered stains to text block of volume one, most noticeably to last leaf of the preliminaries and first two leaves of text, a tight, good copy. (#129751)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. THE MARBLE FAUN:; in two volumes. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1860.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. , -283; -284. . With March 1860 catalogue in the back of vol. 1. Brown p. 47. Bound in brown cloth, worn at the extremities of the spines, rear hinge of vol 1 loose, a very good set. BAL 7621.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Second printing in advance of publication. March ads. Light wear only.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni. , 1860.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Original blindstamped cloth. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 2 Vols. First American edition, issued simultaneously with the British edition. BAL 7621, printing 1 of both vols. Wright II: 1136. Catalogue in Vol. One dated March. Some wear to spine ends and corners, very light uniform toning, else very good.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$282.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SECOND STATE PRINTINGS WITH THE ADVERT PAGES DATED MARCH 1860, NO CONCLUSION TO VOLUME TWO, PREFACE PAGES BOUND IN BEFORE THE CONTENTS PAGES TO VOLUME 1, HARDBACKS BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL EMBOSSED CLOTH BINDINGS, HALF TITLES TO BOTH VOLUMES. EACH MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. SOME WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINES WITH A FEW SMALL CHIPS TO CLOTH, FEW LIGHT MARKS & SOME RUBBING TO CLOTH BOARDS, CORNERS BUMPED, PRIVATE BOOKPLATE TO INNER FRONT BOARDS, PENCIL INSCRIPTIONS TO FRONT ENDPAPERS, LIGHT AGE TONING TO PAGE MARGINS, OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING TO PAGES. OVERALL THE SET IS IN VERY GOOD ACCEPTABLE CONDITION WITH BOARDS FIRMLY ATTACHED. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BOOKS HAVE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERINGS & DO SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. 7.5 x 5, blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering, 283 + 16 pp ads, 284. Covers moderately worn, rubbed, light staining, a bit shelf- worn, corners bumped and worn, lacking spine tips and surrounding area has small tears ands is missing small pieces, volume 1 has the outer front hinge starting, front inner hinge cracked with cover a bit loose, faint water-staining on a few upper margins, scattered light spotting (incl. page edges), text block cracking, vol. 2 has very light scattered spotting, pencil name on title page, both vols have bookplates. FIRST ED, FIRST ISSUE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. {ORPHAN} The Marble Faun - VOL 2. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1860.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. BAL 7621 Very good condition, spine ends worn
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Both volumes can be identified as first edition, first printing. For Vol I, page ix has an 1* at bottom; preface is before contents; line 22, p 225 "a providence or purpose for Hilda, if for no other human"; 283 pages followed by ads for other books, dated February, 1860. However, pages 3 - 14 of the ads have been removed. Vol II has no "Conclusion", which was added to later versions at the request of Hawthorne's readers. Volume I has a page next to end pages front and back which has been removed. Both volumes have intact brown end pages with faint penciled initial in corner, "N J Folsom's" on reverse. Brown boards of both volumes are worn at corners and tops and bottoms of spine, and some edges. Interior pages are lightly toned at margins, but otherwise clean and undamaged. Volume I, 283 pages plus ads, Volume II: 284 pages. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" More images on request. Bargain priced due to missing ad pages and condition.
Seller: Lucky Panther Books, Leonia, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. 283, 288,16 pp. Original brown cloth with blind stamped design; gilt title to the spines. Some rubbing and wear to the boards; extremities. Spines lightly sunned. Previous owner's name in pencil on the ffep of volume II. Age toning to the fore edges. Internally fine.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. These are Near Fine copies of the Second Impression of the First Edition. Original brown publisher's cloth binding, decoratively stamped. Gilt titling on the spines. Volume One is xi, 283 pages, with 16 pages of publisher's adverts in the rear, dated March 1860. The Table of Contents precedes the Preface. Volume Two has 284 pages. A bit of rubbing to the head and foot of the spines; Volume Two has a tiny chip at the top of the spine. Gilt on spine somewhat dulled but perfectly readable. Withal, quite attractive copies of this high spot of American literature. In archival plastic covers. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, mixed issue, ads dated March in vol. I, but without "Conclusion" in vol. II. 2 vols. 12mo. BAL 7621 Original brown cloth. Wear to joints with some loss of cloth. Signed Mrs. F. King on ffep First edition, mixed issue, ads dated March in vol. I, but without "Conclusion" in vol. II.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. First edition, First issue, with preface preceding contents, and with on instead of for on p. 225 line 22, with ads dated March in vol. I, but without "Conclusion" in vol. II. 2 vols. 12mo. BAL 7621 Bound by STIKEMAN & CO. in three quarter blue morocco, richly gilt spines, raised bands, t.e.g., with the original publishers' brown cloth covers bound in. From the library of Agnes Neustadt, with her bookplate. About fine First American Edition. First edition, First issue, with preface preceding contents, and with on instead of for on p. 225 line 22, with ads dated March in vol. I, but without "Conclusion" in vol. II.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. First edition, First issue, with preface preceding contents, and with on instead of for on p. 225 line 22, with ads dated March in vol. I, but without "Conclusion" in vol. II. 2 vols. 12mo. BAL 7621 Bound in three quarter blue morocco and cloth sides, t.e.g. Almost fine First American Edition. First edition, First issue, with preface preceding contents, and with on instead of for on p. 225 line 22, with ads dated March in vol. I, but without "Conclusion" in vol. II.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$334.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE. FIRST EDITION, mixed states of first & second issues (details following). First edition points as follows: "1860" to title page (as per this copy); "Preface" preceding "Contents" in volume 1 (not in this copy); "for" versus "on" on page 225, line 22, volume 1 (as per this copy); ads at rear of volume 1 dated February 1860 (this copy's ads dated March 1860); first issue without "Conclusion" in volume 2 (this copy without conclusion, whereas the second issue has the conclusion); original first edition bindings (see below). Ahearn (2002) notes there were 7 printings with "1860" on the title page. The first American edition appeared on March 7, 1860. The author's last book. Nathaniel Hawthorne died in 1864. Bowing to critical pressure, Hawthorne added a "conclusion" to the second edition (not in this copy) to make the plot resolution more coherent. Stereotyped & printed by H.O. Houghton & Company, Riverside, Cambridge. Bound in publisher's original full brown cloth, with gilt lettering & horizontal blind-stamped rules to spine, all boards panelled in blind, including triple-ruled blind-stamped borders & blind-stamped floral decorations, brown-coated endpapers. Both volumes with age-wear & soiling to boards, tips worn through to boards, lightly cracked, some mild faint staining, & general handling wear. Volume 1 with loss to portion of head of spine (1-1.5cm), small closed tear to upper inner corner of title page. Volume 2 with small closed tear to head of spine, two tiny closed tears to upper edge of half-title page. Overall a VERY GOOD nice clean solid complete set of two volumes. 283pp + 16pp ads (Vol. 1) + 284pp (Vol. 2). BAL 7621, Ahearn 2002. RARE mixed state of the FIRST EDITION.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
HAWTHORNE Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: or the Romance of Monte Beni. , 1860.
Price: US$346.48 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 2 vols., 8vo., original brown cloth decorated in blind on covers and lettered in gilt on spine. Boston, Ticknor & Fields. A slightly compromised copy that yet maintains some dignity. The heads of both spines and the foot of one are restored and the joints are repaired. The whole has that slightly indefinable feel of having been soften by handling, including bruising to the corners, though the text block is actually clean and square. With an interesting Italian provenance, bearing the blindstamp ex-libris of the heiress Giannalisa Feltrinelli, mother of Giangiacomo, the publisher of Doctor Zhivago and The Leopard, and the ultimate champagne socialist, who died while planning a terrorist attack.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. These are Very Good (Plus) copies of the First Edition. Original brown publisher's cloth binding, decoratively stamped. Gilt titling on the spines. Volume One is xi, begins with page 15 and continues to page 283, with sixteen pages of publisher adverts in the rear (dated March 1860). Volume Two begins with Page Seven and continues to Page 288. Very mild wear: light bumping, rubbed head and foot of spines. Volume One has a tiny hole on the lower front edge of the spine. A very solid set of this classic of American literature. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$366.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST Edition, Second Printing, as the 16 pages of advertisements in Volume I are dated March 1860. LISTED in "The Checklist Of Fantastic Literature" by E.F. Bleiler. Preface is preceding contents, correctly. Two volume set - Very Good, being re-cased (tight text block) with original blind stamped cloth onto new boards. Still bright gilt spine titles. Original brown end-papers in place (no markings), with new blank end-papers just before it. Volume I (only) has a small previous owners name, dated 1860 on a blank white end-paper. Last blank page of Volume I has a penciled 'copy' of a letter/opinion written to Hawthorne by John Lothrop Motley, about this title. Motley was an American historian,1814 - 1877. Interesting. Otherwise volumes are clean, no markings. Preface is before "Contents. Volume 1 shows 'on' instead of 'for' on page 225, line 22 and lacks 'Conclusion' in Volume II. Sixteen pages of ads at rear of volume I - (another first edition point). Fabulous First Edition of this classic romance.
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, first issue with March 1860 in ads in volume one. 2 volumes. Full blindstamped decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Books soiled with fraying to the cloth at the top & bottom of the spine. Slightly cocked. Volume one's front freen endpage is missing with a barely attached front flyleaf. Rear free endpage is missing half. 283 pp +16 pp (ads), 288pp. Overall in GOOD condition. The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance, and possibly one of the strangest major works of American fiction. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. The climax comes less than halfway through the story, and Hawthorne intentionally fails to answer many of a reader's questions about the characters and the plot. (Complaints about this led Hawthorne to add a facetious Postscript to the second edition, wherein he continues to fail - purposefully - to answer most of these questions.) UncleAndy Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, first issue with March 1860 ads in volume one. "Preface" precedes "Contents" 2 volumes. Full blindstamped decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Each volume is housed in a fine separate protective custom slipcase with interior pull-outs in exterior red cloth, and interior green cloth with gilt lettering. Vol. 1 has a slight trace of dampstaining that begins at the far right on the top edge, no more than 4" into the leaves throughout the entire volume, NOT interfering with any of the text, and barely noticible. Also, Vol. 1 has a small (less than 2") Tear at the hinge, which reveals the boards below, and is properly considered minor shelfwear. Vol. 1 slightly cocked. Very little foxing. Both volumes have bookplates of O.H. Campbell, M.D. on the front pastedowns. Vol. 2 has a small contemporary (1890) ownership signature to the second free endpaper. The binding and interior of Vol. 2 is superb. Hinges strong, binding square. Overall a VERY GOOD set in BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM SLIPCASES.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 567 pages; Boston, Ticknor & Fields; 1860. 1st edition, 1st printing mixed state. (BAL 7621; Clark A23.3. A). 2 volumes in original ribbed brown cloth with decorative blind stamping to boards and title lettering in gilt to spines. Both volumes gathered in 8's and signed in 12's. [i] - [xiv], [15] -283, [4] blank, 16 (ads) pp ; [1]-284, [4] blank pp. With the publisher's 16 page catalog at rear dated March 1860. Preface precedes contents; signed *1 on pg ix of Vol I. 2nd volume pagination ends at page 284 and lacking the conclusion added beginning with later issues. Handsome bright set with solid snug bindings. Gilt to spines generally bright. Shallow crimping and trace fray to cloth at spine ends. Boards peeking through cloth at several of the 8 front corners but without significant bumping or tenderness. Board edges sharp and unrubbed. With all original endpages and front matter intact and neat. Handsome and well preserved copy. VG+
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, second printing, and ads dated March in vol. I. 283, [284-288, blank],16 (ads) ; 284 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. BAL 7621 Original brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Near fine copy. Small old adhesions on lower pastedowns. Boxed 283, [284-288, blank],16 (ads) ; 284 pp. 2 vols. 12mo First American edition, second printing, and ads dated March in vol. I.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$448.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. Small 8vo, pp. xi, 283; 288, 16. Brown cloth, blind stamped, with gilt lettering on spines. Covers somewhat worn at corners and spine, o/w VG. With a 16 page Ticknor & Fields catalogue inserted in the rear of volume 2, dated September, 1860. BAL 7621; Clark A23.b. "Preface" precedes "Contents" and "1*" signature on p. ix is not present.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 283, 284. 18 x 12. First issue with 16 pps. of adverts dated March 1860. An unsigned elegant binding, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, cover border panels in interlocking floral motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The London and Boston editions were supposed to be issued simultaneously. "Contemporary notices indicate that the London edition was issued prior to the Boston edition, but simultaneous publication may have occurred." [see:BLANCK 7621]. Full crimson calf. Aeg. Fine. 2 Vols
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, MA. 1860. 283 & 288 pgs. Two Volumes. 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "March, 1860" inserted at rear, "Preface" precedes "Contents" . First Edition/First Printing/First State. Bound in brown blindstampe brown cloth. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Boards are lightly rubbed and worn at the spine ends. No ownership marks present. Foxing Present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth, two volume set. First printings. Attractive set.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Two vols., 8vos, 283, 284pp + publisher's ads at end of first volume; brown cloth. Second state of publisher's ads, dated March 1860. Old paper clip impression to front endpaper and first few leaves of first volume, no loss; light rubbing; gilt stamping only slightly dulled.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni, complete in 2 volumes. , 1860.
Price: US$630.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1860 First Edition Hardcover Very Good +/No Dust Jacket Boston, 1860, 1st edition, 1st issue, with advertisements dated March, 1860; Boston, Ticknor and Fields, very good+ condition in both volumes, minor wear to top and bottom edge of spine and corners, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Marble Faun : or the Romance of Monte Beni. Ticknor & Fields, 1860.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 Volumes First Edition Second State.Ads Dated March Instead of Feb. Gorgeous Fresh Fine Copies.Very Rare In This Condition.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes of the two volume set - conditions the same unless noted: Brown cloth on boards with blind stamped geometric design and varied width multiple rulings to front, repeated to back. Gilt lettering to spines. Books are tight, square, relatively sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out, other than chipped heel of Volume I and minor scuffing to heads of both Volumes. Brown endpapers - interiors are clean and free of any flaws. 16 pages of ads at end of book with March, 1860 date. First Edition, either first or second issue.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$742.50 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First Edition, with Vol. I being Clark's printing four with sixteen page catalogue in the rear dated March and Vol. II being printing five and with the ad catalogue dated October. 8vo., publisher's original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spines and decorated in blind on the covers in the style of Ticknor format A, and with white wove endpapers coated brown. xi, 283, 16 ads; 288, 16 add pp. A very good set, quite near to fine for American books of this period. The textblock is solid and for the most part very clean, a small droplet has left an unobtrusive faint mark to the upper margin of the first 8 leaves of Vol. I, otherwise the volumes are quite clean and fresh, Vol. II especially so. A VERY EARLY PRINTING AND IN VERY NICE CONDITION. 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. Marble Faun (First Edition). Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1860.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In two volumes. First edition, Clarks second printing (no priority) as the first 3 printings were issued simultaneously. (total printing of 8,000 volumes). Publisher: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1860. In near fine condition pair with top and bottom of spines neatly repaired. Gold lettering on spine bright. A few light spots to the front of binding of volume I. Owners signature on the second free endpaper in volume II and owners embossed stamp on first free endpaper on volume II. 283, 284 pages plus 16 pages of ads in volume I dated March,1860. Contents clean. 5 x 7 ½ inches. Original reddish- brown endpapers. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #23-262. Price: $750.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, mixed issue, of Nathaniel Hawthorne's expatriate romance, inspired by his encounter with the Faun of Praxiteles in Rome. The novel follows three American artists in Italy who become entangled with the enigmatic Donatello, Count of Monte Beni: "There was an indefinable characteristic about Donatello that set him outside of rules." This copy accords, in collation and pagination, with Blanck's first printing. First issue points: the preface precedes the table of contents in Volume I; "on" is uncorrected to "for" on page 225, line 22, of Volume I; no "Conclusion" in Volume II. Second issue points: page ix of Volume I and page 197 of Volume II unsigned. Second state of the publisher's catalog, dated March 1860. BAL 7621. A very good copy of a Gothic classic. Two volumes, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: xiv, 15-283, [5], 16; 284, [4]. Original full brown ribbed cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spines lettered in gilt, reddish-brown coated endpapers. Publisher's catalog, dated March 1860, in Volume I. Light wear to cloth, spine ends and corners rubbed, with small loss to head of Volume I. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.
Seller: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings of each book in this two volume set. Each book is bound in the publisher's brown cloth with light wear to the edges. The bindings of both books are tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with a small matching bookplate in each book. There is NO writing or marks in the book. A wonderful set with the ads present in the back of volume 1.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue, with 16-page catalog dated March, 1860 inserted at rear of Volume one of Hawthorneâs last major work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth, 2 volumes. In fine condition, from the library of noted book collector Henry Walker Bagley with his bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. BAL 7621. An exceptional example. Nathaniel Hawthorne, âlong recognized as one of the greatest of American writers,â first journeyed to Europe in 1853 as American Consul in Liverpool (Drabble, 443). After resigning his post he traveled to Rome, and his experiences there served as the inspiration for The Marble Faun, published in England as The Transformation; or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Preceded by the first English edition, although Blanck notes that âThe Boston and the London publishers attempted to publish simultaneously, Ticknor & Fields setting their edition from advance sheets of the London edition⦠Contemporary notices indicate that the London edition was issued prior to the Boston edition but simultaneous publication may have occurred.â
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1860.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition, first issue. An exceptional copy of the first American appearance of one of Hawthorne's most ambitious works. Brown buckram with gilt stamping on spine. Two volumes. All points present: correct signing with pg. ix of vol. 1 signed "1*," preface placed before table of contents, ads at rear dated February 1860; volume II has no conclusion, signed "4*" at pg. 197. Most likely issued simultaneously with the British edition. Fine. Gilt lettering on spine is lightly tarnished, faint spotting at the edges. Former owner's name on preliminary blanks; overall bright and clean. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE MARBLE FAUN; or The Romance of Monte Beni (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860) FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE IN UNUSUALLY NICE CONDITION. Italy was the site of this, one of Hawthorneâs most popular books. Of it, the writer said, âNo 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.â 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.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings. A wonderful copy of this (2) volume set with ALL the First Issue points including the 16 pages of ads dated February 1860 at the end of volume I, page ix of volume 1 has the signed "1* and there is a preface placed before table of contents in volume 1. Both books are bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's brown cloth. The bindings are tight with minor wear to the boards. 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.