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1354468252.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
7319Montpellier, Fata Morgana (collection En miroir), (30 septembre) 1979. In-8 (225 x 145 mm), broché, 72 pages, couverture à rabats.
192261296London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. no date but ink inscription Xmas 1922 207pp 10 x 8" frontis and 23 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham 24 black and white illustrations bound in red cloth with a dustwrapper. the dustwrapper is chipped rubbed and darkened; Quarto . Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
192261738London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. No date but ink inscription Xmas 1922 207pp 10 x 8" frontis and 23 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham 24 black and white illustrations bound in nice bright red cloth with a dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is sl chipped rubbed and darkened; Quarto . Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
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18766877Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. 1876. First edition thus. 8vo full blind-stamped green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine. 243. With some external rubbing else a fine copy. Volume 22 of the Little Classics. James R. Osgood and Co. hardcover
1976feb13959Univers 1976. Used. 1976; Romanian Edition of Faunul de marmura; For more details please contact me Univers unknown
184132526Boston: E. P. Peabody 1841. First Edition and a true Hawthorne rarity. 12mo publisher's original basket-weave grained plum cloth the upper cover with black paper pastedown label gilt decorated and lettered. vii 140pp. An especially well preserved copy the text is near to pristine the hinges are strong and tight the cloth with only the most minor evidence of age to the extremities and as is always the case the gilt on the paper label is dulled. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRULY SCARCE ITEM IN THE HAWTHORNE OEUVRE. Also one of his earlier works printed nine years prior to THE SCARLET LETTER and a decade prior to THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. In these early days Hawthorne wrote primarily for children for whom he was a wonderfully descriptive teller of tales.<br> GRANDFATHER'S CHAIR retells real stories from America's early days by following the history of a chair brought to America from England in 1630 aboard the good ship 'Arbella'. The chair makes it way through the Colonial and revolutionary periods before finally being purchase by Grandfather at auction. Many famous and infamous people are met along the way. And have no doubt George Washington sat here!<br> This early Hawthorne rarity is typically found foxed and worn this copy is exceptional in its fine condition. E. P. Peabody hardcover
DADAX1435142837imusti 0000-00-00. hardcover. New. 6.30x0.83x8.27. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. imusti hardcover
2013Q-1435142837Barnes & Noble 2013-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Barnes & Noble hardcover
010564NY : GEORGE H. DORAN CO . NO DATE ASSUMED FIRST. . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. RACKHAM ARTHUR . RED CLOTH BOARDS WITH A GREAT GILT ILLUSTRATION OF ADAM & EVE AND THE DEVIL ON THE FRONT COVER SLIGHTLY FADED BUT COMPLETE GILT LETTERING TO SPINE WONDERFUL CLEAN END PAPERS WITH A 1920'S ADAM AND EVE 17 BEAUTIFUL ARTHUR RACKHAM TIPPED IN PLATES 8 RACKHAM PASTEL ILLUSTATIONS A GRAND BOOK WITH NO DATE OR EDITIONS MENTIONED BUT PRE 1928 AS GEORGE H. DORAN MERGED THAT YEAR EXCELLENT FIRM BINDING UNMARKED A VERY RARE TITLE BOOK STATES WONDER BOOK III ON COPYRIGHT PAGE MINIMAL WEAR TO TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE ONE SMALL TEAR AT TOP OF PAGE 57 SLIGHT SCRATCH TO FRONTIS PIECE IPHONE PICTURES ON REQUEST <br/> <br/> GEORGE H. DORAN CO hardcover
184633085New York: Wiley and Putnam 1846. 2 volumes bound into one. First Edition of each book First Printing with “R. Craighead’s Power Press†and "T. B. Smith imprints on the verso of both title-pages and all first issue points as called for by Clark. 8vo very handsomely bound in three-quarter scarlet morocco over red cloth-covered boards gilt trimmed on the cornerpieces and backstrip the spine with handsome ornately gilt decorated compartments between gilt stippled raised bands gilt lettering in two gilt framed compartments and additional lettering at the tail t.e.g. PUBLISHER'S RARE ORIGINAL DARK GREEN CLOTH preserved and bound in the rear rear of the volume. i-vi 1-207; i-vi 1-211 pp. A very clean and handsome copy beautifully preserved the text-block unusually clean and the binding bright tight and strong. FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EARLY AND QUITE SCARCE HAWTHORNE TITLE RARELY ENCOUNTERED IN FULL FIRST STATE FORMAT. Hawthorne spent three years in the Old Manse in Concord. The Old Manse is a historic manse famous for its American literary associations. It is now owned and operated as a nonprofit museum by the Trustees of Reservations. In 1842 the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne rented the Old Manse for $100 a year. He moved in with his wife transcendentalist Sophia Peabody. Prior to their arrival at the Manse Henry David Thoreau created a vegetable garden for the couple. The Hawthornes lived in the house for three years. Previously the manse had been home to Ralph Waldo Emerson.<br> MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE is the best and most important of the three literary collections Hawthorne published during his lifetime. Many of the tales are allegories and as in much of Hawthorne's best works focus on the negative side of human nature. Herman Melville a close friend of Hawthorne noted this aspect in his review of it-- "This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight—transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds. Wiley and Putnam hardcover
186433232Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1864. 2 volumes. A new edition carefully revised by the Author. 8vo in the publisher's original brown cloth the boards ornately decorated in blind the spines ruled in blind and gilt lettered. 286; 297 pp. A very clean and handsome set the text very bright and well preserved the cloth clean and bright and very well preserved but for some light chipping to the headcaps. AN ATTRACTIVE SET OF ONE OF HAWTHORNE'S BEST COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES. Hawthorne spent three years in the Old Manse in Concord. The Old Manse is a historic manse famous for its American literary associations. It is now owned and operated as a nonprofit museum by the Trustees of Reservations. In 1842 the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne rented the Old Manse for $100 a year. He moved in with his wife transcendentalist Sophia Peabody. Prior to their arrival at the Manse Henry David Thoreau created a vegetable garden for the couple. The Hawthornes lived in the house for three years. Previously the manse had been home to Ralph Waldo Emerson.<br> MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE is the best and most important of the three literary collections Hawthorne published during his lifetime. Many of the tales are allegories and as in much of Hawthorne's best works focus on the negative side of human nature. Herman Melville a close friend of Hawthorne noted this aspect in his review of it-- "This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight—transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds."<br> This particular printiing of MOSSES was published in the year of the author's death. Ticknor and Fields hardcover
B9781019821909Hardback. New. hardcover
186333090Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1863. First edition first issue with the T&F ads printed on page 399 as called for by Clark first binding state. 8vo. publisher’s original textured brown cloth Ticknor style A with blind stamp device on covers within blind borders spine gilt lettered white wove endpapers coated brown on one side. xi 398 399 ads. pp. A pleasing copy the text-block is especially clean and fresh with no foxing but for a trivial few spots on the prelims only the brown cloth is fresh and unfaded with the gilt still bright. There is a bit of wear to the cloth at the corners spine tips and board edges. FIRST EDITION AND PRINTING OF HAWTHORNE'S WRITINGS ON ENGLAND A WORK WHICH INCLUDES SOME OF THE AUTHOR'S BEST NONFICTION WORK .<br> The years which Hawthorne passed in England were outwardly the most successful in worldly prosperity the most abundant and in other respects among the happiest of his life; forming in the autumn of his career a sort of counterpoise to the idyllic period spent at the Old Manse. Of these years--from the spring of 1853 to June of 1860 excepting a part of 1858 and 1859 which interval was chiefly spent in Italy--"Our Old Home" was the literary outcome. Much of the material composing the sketches in this volume occurs in embryonic form in the "English Note-Books" which were then still veiled from publicity; but various elements and touches of fancy were supplied by the author's mood or memory at the instant of writing. His impressions of England outlined in the "Note-Books" and scattered at random through many pages here assume a connected and artistic shape. Ticknor and Fields hardcover
18726879Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1872. Volume II only. First American edition. 8vo. original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. 306. With wear to the head and tail and some red staining to the upper cover though a fine copy. Volume II only. James R. Osgood & Co. hardcover
185233086Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1852. First American edition first issue binding A earliest dated ads April. 8vo in the original Ticknor style A brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and with all-over decorative work in blind on the covers. 288 4 ads. bound at the front pp. An especially fresh and bright copy the text-block very clean and fresh the binding tight and strong the gilt work unusually well preserved. A lovely copy. FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE and a very scarce Hawthorne title in such fine condition. An uncommonly bright and fresh copy.<br> Hawthorne's "romance' was based on Brook Farm a community farm near Boston. It examines what progress if any has been made to the human animal. Blithedale like Brook Farm was a would-be modern Arcadia along the lines of the anti-capitalist ideals of Charles Fourier but in spite of the lofty ideals falls prey to the self-interested behavior of its members. Though this concept for a work of fiction may sound a bit heady Henry James called it "the lightest the brightest the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "fictions." Hawthorne’s claim that the characters of the novel are “entirely fictitious†has been widely questioned and many suggest that Bronson Alcott Emerson Horace Mann Margaret Fuller and Hawthorne himself can all be found in this novel. Ticknor, Reed and Fields hardcover
169699Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co. 1887-1888. 11 vols of 12 lacking vol III. 8vo 8 x 5¼ ins. Original uniform brown cloth with contrasting gilt lettered labels top edges gilt near Fine. Pp. various with etched frontispieces with tissue-guards and pictorial titles by Blum Church Dielman Gifford Shirlaw and Turner no inscriptions. Twice Told Tales Mosses from an Old Manse A Wonderbook Tanglewood Tales and Grandfather's Chair The Scarlet Letters and the Blithedale Romance The Marble Faun and the Romance of Monte Beni Our Old Home and English Note-Books 2 vols Passages from the American Note-Books Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books The Dolliver Romance Fanshaw and Septimus Felton with An Appendix Containing the Ancestral Footstep Tales Sketches and Other Papers with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1887-1888 unknown
185133228Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1851. First Edition one of 1000 copies of the September 4th issue. 8vo in the original Ticknor’s style A ribbed brown cloth decorated in blind on both covers the spine lettered in gilt with bands in blind variant E no priority assigned. vi 3 10 - 344 pp. A very attractive and well preserved copy expertly restored at the spine but retaining nearly all of the original gilt decorated cloth the text is very clean and fresh for the title only a few incidents of foxing and with very little evidence of use. ONE OF HAWTHORNE'S MOST POPULAR BOOKS AND A CENTRAL CLASSICS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ARGUABLY THE QUINTESSENTIAL OF AMERICAN GOTHIC. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES is a pillar of American Renaissance literature and was a major influence on later authors of both the horror and mystery genres in fact it continues to be influential even today.<br> Written during the most lucrative period of the author's career the novel centers on a New England family and their ancestral home. The setting was inspired by the Turner-Inglersoll Mansion a dark and rather moody gabled house in Salem Massachusetts which still stands today and offers very popular tours. While set in Hawthorne's time the novel searches history and reaches back to discern the life that occurred through the years. The house in Hawthorne's tales is presented as a gloomy mansion haunted since its construction by unscrupulous dealings accusations of witchcraft and death.<br> The House of the Seven Gables was released in April of 1851. Two printings were issued in the first month a third in May and a fourth in September 1851; totaling 6710 copies in its first year. Hawthorne earned 15% in royalties from the $1.00 cover price. After its publication Hawthorne said "It sold finely and seems to have pleased a good many people." His friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called it "a weird wild book" and it met with extreme popularity not only in America but also in England where it was viewed as kin to Jane Eyre. British critic Henry Chorley noted that with THE SCARLET LETTER and THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES "few will dispute Hawthorne's claim to rank amongst the most original and complete novelists that have appeared in modern times. Ticknor, Reed and Fields hardcover
A9781536874105Paperback / softback. New. paperback
186033230Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1860. 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.<br> Italy was the site of this one of Hawthorne’s 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.â€<br> 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. Ticknor and Fields hardcover
44504U.S.A. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN1890. TWO VOLUMES IN FULL VELLUM GILT DECORATION TO BOTH BOARDS T.E.G. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS. SCARCE. U.S.A., HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN,1890 hardcover
1860049712Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1860. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good. Two volumes in brown cloth a bit of wear at spine ends and corners slight rubbing. Bookplate of John D. Myrick Augusta Maine in both volumes. Light occasional foxing first few pages opened a little poorly at foredge in vol 2 - an attractive pair in a later brown cloth slipcase.<br /> <br /> BAL 7621 -first edition and first or mixed state with Blanck's first issue points the 16 page catalog at the rear of Vol 1 dated March 1860 and the preface before the Table of Contents "on" instead of "for" on page 225 which Blanck doesn't mention. According to Blanck some copies of the first issue have the catalog dated Feb and some March. Pages in vol 1 and 2 unsigned. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 049712. Ticknor and Fields hardcover
185033091Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1850. First Edition First Issue with ads dated March 1. 1850 no preface and all first edition points noted by Clark including 'reduplicate for 'repudiate' on page 21. Title-page printed in red and black. 8vo a rare survival in the publisher’s original Ticknor Style A brown textured cloth the covers decorated in blind the spine printed in gilt. Now protected and housed in a folding box of brown cloth covered boards lined with marbled paper the back with brown leather label lettered and ruled in gilt. iv 322 pp. A beautifully preserved copy and a remarkably fine example of what is arguably the author's most important and most revered work as well as a landmark of American literature. The text very clean and fresh completely free of foxing or stains looking to be near as pristine the binding sturdy and strong the hinges fine and firm the cloth rich and unfaded with bright gilt trivial rubbing to the tips and edges. FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING AND VERY RARE IN SUCH FINE CONDITION. IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH THIS IS CORNERSTONE WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND A LANDMARK WORK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. An American Renaissance masterpiece and surely one of the most important works in the oeuvre of colonial America. More than any other work of literature Hawthorne’s SCARLET LETTER set the stage for an understanding of the puritan mind and beginnings of the American social system.<br> The first printing of THE SCARLET LETTER consisted of only 2500 copies and sold out within days. It is said when Hawthorne delivered the final pages to Ticknor Reed and Fields he doubted it would be popular but THE SCARLET LETTER ushered in the most lucrative period of his long career. The public's positive response was enormous but the book was not without its critics. The publication brought protest from natives of Salem who did not like how Hawthorne depicted their Puritan ancestors. Religious leaders also took issue with the novel's subject and the 'Church Review' offered that the novel "perpetrates bad morals."<br> Reviewers from the next generation proved more tolerant. Author D. H. Lawrence argued that there could not be a more perfect work of the American imagination than The Scarlet Letter. Henry James said of the novel; "It is beautiful admirable extraordinary; it has in the highest degree that merit which I have spoken of as the mark of Hawthorne's best things—an indefinable purity and lightness of conception. One can often return to it; it supports familiarity and has the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art. Ticknor, Reed and Fields hardcover