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Title: Tales and Sketches.
Description: Boston and New York; Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1900. 1900. ILLUSTRATED AND SIGNED BY F.C YOHN - Octavo, three-quarter teal blue morocco and marbled boards titled and decorated in gilt with raised bands on the spine. The top edge is gilt. The covers are rubbed along the extremities and the top front corner is chipped as is the head of the spine. xii & 358 pages, illustrated with photogravures by F.C. Yohn and a frontispiece in 2 states (one colored) by Yohn, signed in pencil by Yohn below the image of the monochrome frontispiece. An internally bright partially unopened copy.

Volume 16 of the Autograph Edition of "The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne", issued in a limited edition of 500 copies. Complete in itself with the entire text of Hawthorne's "Tales and Sketches", illustrated by F.C. Yohn, with a signed print by Yohn.

Included are "Fanshawe", "The Antique Ring", "An Old Woman's Tale", "Alice Doane's Appeal", "The Ghost of Doctor Harris", "The Young Provincial", "The Haunted Quack", "The New England Village", "My Wife's Novel", and "The Bald Eagle". Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED; TALES AND SKETCHES; ILLUSTRATIONS; F.C. YOHN; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; PLATES; COLOR FRONTISPIECE; PRINT; SIGNATURE; LIMITED EDITION; AUTOGRAPH EDITION; NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE; COMPLETE WRITINGS; FICTION.

Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
- Book number: 3538

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