Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun

Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Marble Faun or the Romance of Monti Beni. Two volume edition. Boston und New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890.
Very light cover wear. Some papers few foxed. A good and clean copy.

266, 261 pages. With an introductory note by George Parsons Lathrop. Red cloth and white cloth spine. Gilt design on the front covers. Gold gilt lettering on spines. Illustrated throughout with fifty tissue covered photogravure plates, illustrating points of interest in Italy. Protective tissue. Volume I with engraved frontispiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Two-color title page. Top edges gilt. 21 x 14 cm. This was Hawthorne's last novel completed after returning to American from a two year stay in Italy. It is a provocative look at American artists abroad and a groundbreaking exploration of the influence of European thought on American morality that anticipates the work of Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. The story centers around the mysterious, tormented Miriam, her friends Kenyon and Hilda, their alluring Italian acquaintance, the faunlike Donatello, and the crime that irrevocably links them all.

[KW: American Literature 19th Century, Symbolic Literature, Rome, Victorian Rome, Fiction.]

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Fiction Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni, Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, MA, 1894
Condition: Break in endpapers from spine front and back, however binding tight. Binding shelf worn, fray top spine edge. Content vg. Book Size 8vo.

The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, MA, 1894. Riverside Ed. Hardbound. No DJ. 8vo. Break in endpapers from spine front and back, however binding tight. Binding shelf worn, fray top spine edge. Content vg. From The complete works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with introductory notes by George Parsons Lathrop and illustrated with Etchings by Bum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner. Volume VI of Thirteen Volumes. 527 Pgs. Description text copyright 2001 BooksForComfort. Item ID 4588.; Riverside Ed

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni, Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop and Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, a Biography, by Julian Hawthorne. Illustrated with Etchings and Engravings on Steel, Cambridge, MA, USA Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press
Very Good Various

Volumes VI of 15-volume set. No publication date, c. late 1800's. 8vo. Green cloth with gold decoration of house and tree on front board, gold rule around edges, gold titles, gilt top. Standard Library Edition, illustrated with steel engravings by various artists. No publication date (only copyrights) c. late 1800's. Frontispiece plus two illustrations, protective tissue, preface. Contains The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni. This is the standard 19th century set of Hawthorne's books. Spine faded, top frayed, bottom worn, corners bumped, light scuffing. Light foxing. Very good overall in decorated cloth. Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni in Two Volumes (Volume II only) Boston Ticknor & Fields 1860
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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. First Edition Decorative Silk 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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