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Click to view full description | 1. | (Hawthorne, Nathaniel). Buitenhuis, Peter THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES: Severing Family and Colonial Ties
Boston: Twayne Publishers, (1991). First edition. Very fine in an illustrated dust jacket with a detail woodcut courtesy of the The House of the Seven Gables Settlement Associations. Chronology of Hawthorne's life and works, notes and references, bibliography, index.
An analysis of Hawthorne's 1851 novel that argues the subtext is an attempt to create a truly American identity and a break with our English legacy. Buitenhuis explores the text and places it in a literary and cultural context.
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| 2. | (Hawthorne, Nathaniel). Carton, Evan THE MARBLE FAUN: Hawthorne's Transformations
New York: Twayne Publishers, (1992). First edition. Very fine in an illustrated dust jacket, with jacket art a detail of ''Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome'' by Giovanni Paolo Panini. Chronology of Hawthorne's life and works, notes and references, bibliography, index.
Hawthorne's last complete work is discussed in terms of the critical response that greeted it, the literary tradition of the romance novel, and the politics of mid 19th Century America. Carton also applies modern theories to further interpret the text.
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| 3. | Hawthorne, Nathaniel DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT
(Mankato, Minnesota): Creative Education Inc., (1991). First edition thus. A Creative Short Story. Fine, as-new, in full navy blue cloth with blind-embossed vignette to front cover, gilt lettering to spine; in a fine, as-new, illustrated dust jacket. Book design by Rita Marshall. Jacket illustration by Etienne Delessert.
Dr. Heidegger experiments with four of his friends by giving them water supposedly from the Fountain of Youth. In CE's superb series of stories, smartly produced, with stylish, well-designed typography, appealing jacket art.
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| 4. | Hawthorne, Nathaniel THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
Pleasantville, N.Y./Montreal: Reader's Digest Association, Inc., (1985). First edition thus: in the World Best Reading series. Fine, in gilt-stamped black faux-leather shelfback over gilt lettered and decorated green cloth covers; no dust jacket, as issued.
Hawthorne's gothic romance, here with woodcut illustrations by David Frampton, and with an introduction by Henry James. Publisher's 4-page bio-critical introduction laid in.
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| 5. | Hawthorne, Nathaniel THE SCARLET LETTER
Pleasantville, N.Y.: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., (1984). First edition thus: in The World's Best Reading series. Fine, in gilt-lettered burgundy faux leather over gray cloth lettered in burgundy; marbled endpapers; no dust jacket, as issued. Laid in is the publisher's quite informative, illustrated, four-page introductory pamphlet.
A cornerstone of American literature, here in a dandy reprint edition, enhanced with the illustrations of Robert Quackenbush: eleven colored woodcuts and numerous b&w head and tailpieces. Afterword by James Guimond.
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| 6. | Hawthorne, Nathaniel THE SCARLET LETTER, A Romance
(West Hatfield, Massachusetts), Pennyroyal Editions, 1984. First edition thus, first printing. Fine, as-new, a quarto-sized volume, bound in brown-beige linen with inset title label to front cover, spine paper title label, each printed in black and red; illustrated with twenty-four full-page wood engravings; housed in original matching slipcase.
One of twelve American Classics produced thus, designed by Barry Moser and illustrated with his wood engravings. Based on the text as published by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, in 1850. Introduction to this issue by Alexander Eliot.
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| 7. | Hawthorne, Nathaniel TWICE-TOLD TALES
Pleasantville, N.Y./Montreal: Reader's Digest Association, Inc., (1989). First edition thus. In the World's Best Reading series. Fine, in gilt-stamped black leatherette over blue boards with gilt lettering and illustration; no dust jacket, as issued. Laid in is the publisher's quite informative, four-page introductory pamphlet.
The first book to appear under Hawthorne's name, a terrific collection of weird tales, here in a very appealing hardcover reprint, with illustrations by Lars Hokanson; afterwords by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe.
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| 8. | Hawthorne, Nathaniel YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN
(Mankato, Minnesota): Creative Education Inc., (1993). First edition thus. A Creative Short Story. Fine, as-new, in full navy blue cloth with blind-embossed vignette to front cover, gilt lettering to spine; in a fine, as-new, illustrated dust jacket. Book design by Rita Marshall. Jacket illustration by Rob Day.
A nocturnal journey with the devil and a strange vision in the forest lead Goodman Brown to regard his fellow townsmen as devil worshippers. In CE's superb series of stories, smartly produced, with stylish, well-designed typography, appealing jacket art.
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