Sale 666: The Book Fair Century: One Hundred Fine Books - Plus Books Sold to Benefit the ABAA Benevolent Fund (at Oakland) (#666) 02/07/2019 10:00 AM PST CLOSED!

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Lot 36 of 175:
First printing of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$720
Estimate:
$200 - $300

Title:
The Marble Faun, or, The Romance of Monte Beni

Author:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Place:
Boston

Publisher:
Ticknor and Fields

Date:
1860

Description:

Two volumes. 283 pages, 16 publisher's ads dated March 1860; 284 pages. (7½x4¾"),  blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine lettering, brown-coated endpapers; folding, blue-cloth chemises and matching slipcase with blue morocco shelfback. First Edition, first printing

Blanck, BAL 7621. Wright, American Fiction, II-1136.

Donated by R. & A. Petrilla Booksellers, Roosevelt, NJ.


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Condition:
Old ownership signature on front free-endpaper of first volume; very good.


 
Item number:
244052
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