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Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop ... (Total: 12 Items)
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Description
Limited to 250 Sets
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop and Illustrated with Etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner, in Twelve Volumes. Cambridge: the Riverside Press, 1883.Riverside Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Limited to 250 sets, this being number 232. Frontispieces. Illustrations.
Recased in tan cloth over boards. Original paper title labels mounted to spines. Foxing to frontispieces and title pages. Hinge of Volume I cracked. Overall, a near fine set.
BAL notes of this limited edition that "a large paper edition, limited to 250 copies, has been reported but not seen." Some of these limited sets were issued with a thirteenth volume, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret, Hawthorne's unpublished novel which his son, Julian, had first printed in 1883; however, this bonus apparently extended to some of the original subscribers, is not present here.
BAL, 7643.
Auction Info
2010 February Signature Rare Books Auction #6038 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
February, 2010
11th-12th
Thursday-Friday
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