The Marble Faun: or the Romance of Monte Beni

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$750 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. This is the two-volume first edition of Hawthorne's last major gothic romance, a novel cum travelogue, set in a semi-fantastical Italy. This is a mixed state of the first edition. Correct first issue points include the Volume I Preface preceding the table of contents, on instead of of at p.225, line 22, and no Conclusion following the text in Volume II. Second

  • Binding: Hardcover

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