![]() ![]() ![]() Hawthorne's breakthrough book, and it is very difficult to find copies in such nice shape. ![]() This copy is exceptionally square and straight in the original binding, with the gilded printing on the spine still easy to read. 77: thus the first state of the first edition. With the fifth story listed on the contents page as starting on p. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales, 1st edition in exceptional condition. In a custom blue morocco pull-of case, gilt, by Stikeman Publisher's circular device on title-page. Light wear and staining to covers, cloth split at rear joint, foxing throughout. Cleveland (bookplate and pencil inscription on title, Burlington 1837) Agnes Neustadt (bookplate) Publisher's brown embossed cloth, title stamped in gilt to spine. Higginbotham's Catastrophe": "it comes close to becoming a detective story in the purest sense" and Edgar Allan Poe said the story is "vividly original and managed most dexterously" (see Queen's Quorum, p. Now, of course, it is one of the most famous collections of short fiction in American literature. Hawthorne's second book, and although it was not the dismal failure that Fanshawe had been, it attracted hardly any notice when it was issued thus in 1837. ![]() Publisher's circular device on title-page. ![]()
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