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The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 12mo, first edition, early printing but not the first, pp. xiv, 15-283; vi, 8-288; brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines, blind-stamped decoration and frames on covers. This set has early-state points including the typo on p. 225, V1, and the incorrectly arranged preface and contents, but because the conclusion is present, these books cannot be first-state and likely are the fourth printing or later. Condition of this set: Covers scuffed and discolored in spots, minor losses at spine ends. V2 has a thin dampstain running along the edge of numerous leaves starting at the rear endpaper. Overall very good. Shipments outside the U.S. may be subject to local taxes. Size: 12mo. 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55127. .
Synopsis
The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55127
- Title
- The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Literature & Literary; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Unbranded Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Leaves
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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