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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). Twice-Told Tales. Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837.
12o. 4-page publisher's advertisement at beginning and 16-page advertisement at end. Original black cloth, embossed with quatrefoil ornaments, gilt-lettered on spine (a few repairs to spine, corners lightly bumped); red quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Barton Currie (bookplate; his sale Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, 7 May 1963, lot 191).
FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies, with the page number on the table of contents for "The May-Pole of Merry Mount" incorrectly given as page 78. Here, Hawthorne "advanced the cause of criminologists to the very threshold of modern technique." Vincent Starrett said of the story "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe": "it comes close to becoming a detective story in the purest sense" and Edgar Allan Poe said the story is "vividly original and managed most dexterously" (see Queen's Quorum, p.10). BAL 7581; Clarke A2.1; Wilson 129.
12o. 4-page publisher's advertisement at beginning and 16-page advertisement at end. Original black cloth, embossed with quatrefoil ornaments, gilt-lettered on spine (a few repairs to spine, corners lightly bumped); red quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Barton Currie (bookplate; his sale Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, 7 May 1963, lot 191).
FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies, with the page number on the table of contents for "The May-Pole of Merry Mount" incorrectly given as page 78. Here, Hawthorne "advanced the cause of criminologists to the very threshold of modern technique." Vincent Starrett said of the story "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe": "it comes close to becoming a detective story in the purest sense" and Edgar Allan Poe said the story is "vividly original and managed most dexterously" (see Queen's Quorum, p.10). BAL 7581; Clarke A2.1; Wilson 129.
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