[Rarebooks] FS: Hawthorne's TWICE-TOLD TALES, 1851

[Charles Agvent]

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. TWICE-TOLD TALES. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and 
Fields, 1851. Third American Edition. Two volumes in the original brown 
cloth with gilt decorations on the covers and spine. BAL 7603; Clark 
A2.6: 2,000 copies; frontispiece portrait of Hawthorne in the first 
volume is in the first state. Contains the first appearance of 
Hawthorne's Preface to this work. Early (1860s) pencil and ink names on 
the front blanks of each volume. Contents quite clean though the 
portrait is foxed, one signature pulled in the first volume; some wear 
to the spine tips with slight loss, moreso to the first volume where the 
gilt is rather dull. Very Good set. (#015376) $150.00

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