HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel

The Marble Faun

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First Edition. 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.

Price: $150.00

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