Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Title: The Marble Faun, or, the Romance of Monte Beni
Description: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel set in a fantastical Italy, a lovely set. Complete in two volumes.In custom cloth unclipped dust wrappers.'The Marble Faun' is a brilliant romance novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a gothic pastoral novel set in a fantastical Italy.Hawthorne wrote this novel on the eve of the American Civil War. The novel follows four characters, whos fates are intertwined in this novel looking at the fragility of human life, and the confrontation between the Old and New Worlds.Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece, and twenty-six plates.Volume II is illustrated with a frontispiece, and twenty-three plates.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in custom cloth unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards and spines. Front hinge of Volume I is starting but firm. Light edge wear and handling marks to the dust wrappers, with small chips to the head and tail of the spines. Spines are faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine/Very Good.

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