The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: In Thirteen Volumes

Author: HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Introductory notes by George Parsons Lathrop
Title: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: In Thirteen Volumes
Publication: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1882-1896)

Description: Hardcover. Riverside edition. A complete thirteen volume set in fifteen books. Illustrated with etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner. Uniform burgundy cloth with gilt-ruled front boards, gilt-stamped spine titles, and top edges gilt. Some hinges and gutters cracked, faint dampstain on page edges of volume five "The Scarlet Letter", small stain on front board of volume six "The Marble Faun", light dampstain on spines of volume nine "American Note-Books" and volumes fourteen and fifteen "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife", still a very good or better set belonging to a noted American poet with his name penned on endpapers and his penciled notations and underlinings in some of the volumes. Laid in are papers with notes and or postcards addressed to the poet.

Vol. I: Twice-told tales: Introductory note, Preface, The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Wedding Knell, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry Mount, The Gentle Boy, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, Little Annie's Ramble, Wakefield, A Rill from the Town Pump, The Great Carbuncle, The Prophetic Pictures, David Swan, Sights from a Steeple, The Hollow of the Three Hills, The Toll-Gatherer's Day, The Vision of the Fountain, Fancy's Show Box, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Legends of the Province House (Howe's Masquerade, Edward Randolph's Portrait, Lady Eleanor's Mantle, Old Esther Dudley), The Haunted Mind, The Village Uncle, The Ambitious Guest, The Sister Years, Snowflakes, The Seven Vagabonds, The White Old Maid, Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure, Chippings With a Chisel, The Shaker Bridal, Night Sketches, Endicott and the Red Cross, The Lily's Quest, Footprints on the Sea-Shore, Edward Fane's Rosebud, The Threefold Destiny. Vol. II: Mosses from an Old Manse, Introductory note, The Old Manse, The Birthmark, A Select Party, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter, Mrs. Bullfrog, Fire Worship, Buds and Bird Voices, Monsieur du Miroir, The Hall of Fantasy, The Celestial Railroad, The Procession of Life, Feathertop : a moralized legend, The New Adam and Eve, Egotism, or, The Bosom Serpent, The Christmas Banquet, Drowne's Wooden Image, The Intelligence Office, Roger Malvin's Burial, P.'s Correspondence, Earth's Holocaust, Passages from a Relinquished Work, Sketches from Memory, The Old Apple Dealer, The Artist of the Beautiful, A Virtuoso's Collection. Vol. III: The House of the Seven Gables, and The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales, The House of the Seven Gables (Introductory note, Preface, The Old Pyncheon Family, The Little Shop-Window, The First Customer, A Day Behind the Counter, May and November, Maule's Well, The Guest, The Pyncheon of To-day, Clifford and Phoebe, The Pyncheon Garden, The Arched Window, The Daguerreotypist, Alice Pyncheon, Phoebe's Good-bye, The Scowl and Smile, Clifford's Chamber, The Flight of Two Owls, Governor Pyncheon, Alice's Posies, The Flower of Eden, The Departure), The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales. (Introductory note, Preface, The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle, The Great Stone Face, Main Street, Ethan Brand, A Bell's Biography, Sylph Etherege, The Canterbury Pilgrims, Old News (The Old French War, The Old Tory), The Man of Adamant: An Apologue, The Devil in Manuscript, John Inglefield's Thanksgiving, Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of the Past, The Wives of the Dead, Little Daffydowndilly, My Kinsman, Major Molineux). Vol. IV: A Wonder-Book, Tanglewood Tales, and Grandfather's Chair. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (Introductory note, Preface, Tanglewood Porch: introductory to "The Gorgon's Head", The Gorgon's Head, Tanglewood Porch: After the Story, Shadow Brook: introductory to "The Golden Touch", The Golden Touch, Shadow Brook: after the story, Tanglewood Play-Room: introductory to "The Paradise of Children", The Paradise of Children ; Tanglewood Play-Room: after the story, Tanglewood Fireside: introductory to "The Three Golden Apples", The Three Golden Apples, Tanglewood Fireside: after the story, The Hill-Side: introductory to "The Miraculous Pitcher", The Miraculous Pitcher, The Hill-Side: after the story, Bald Summit: introductory to "The Chimeaera", The Chimeaera, Bald Summit: after the story), Tanglewood Tales (The Wayside: introductory, The Minotaur, The Pygmies, The Dragon's Teeth, Circe's Palace, The Pomegranate Seeds, The Golden Fleece), The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair. Vol. V: The Scarlet Letter, and The Blithedale Romance. The Scarlet Letter (Introductory note, Preface to the 2nd edition, The Custom-House: introductory, The Prison-Door, The Market-Place, The Recognition, The Interview, Hester at Her Needle, Pearl, The Governor's Hall, The Elf-Child and the Minister, The Leech, The Leech and His Patient, The Interior of a Heart, The Minister's Vigil, Another View of Hester, Hester and the Physician, Hester and Pearl, A Forest Walk, The Pastor and His Parishioner, A Flood of Sunshine, The Child at the Brook-Side, The Minister in a Maze, The New England Holiday, The Procession, The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, Conclusion), The Blithedale Romance (Introductory note, Preface, Old Moodie, Blithedale, A Knot of Dreamers, The Supper-Table, Until Bedtime, Coverdale's Sick-Chamber, The Convalescent, A Modern Arcadia, Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla, A Visitor from Town, The Wood-Path, Coverdale's Hermitage, Zenobia's Legend, Eliot's Pulpit, A Crisis, Leave-Takings, The Hotel, The Boarding-House, Zenobia's Drawing-Room, They Vanish, An Old Acquaintance, Fauntleroy, A Village Hall, The Masqueraders, The Three Together, Zenobia and Coverdale, Midnight, Blithedale Pasture, Miles Coverdale's Confession). Vol. VI: The Marble Faun, or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello,The Faun, Subterranean Reminiscences, The Spectre of the Catacomb, Miriam's Studio, The Virgin's Shrine, Beatrice, The Suburban Villa, The Faun and Nymph, The Sylvan Dance, Fragmentary Sentences, A Stroll on the Pincian, A Sculptor's Studio, Cleopatra, An Aesthetic Company, A Moonlight Ramble, Miriam's Trouble, On the Edge of a Precipice, The Faun's Transformation, The Burial Chant, The Dead Capuchin, The Medici Gardens, Miriam and Hilda, The Tower Among the Apennines, Sunshine, The Pedigree of Monte Beni, Myths, The Owl Tower, On the Battlements, Donatello's Bust, The Marble Saloon, Scenes by the Way, Pictured Windows, Market-Day in Perugia, The Bronze Pontiff's Benediction, Hilda's Tower, The Emptiness of Picture Galleries, Altars and Incense, The World's Cathedral, Hilda and a Friend, Snow-Drops and Maidenly Delights, Reminiscences of Miriam, The Extinction of a Lamp, The Deserted Shrine, The Flight of Hilda's Doves, A Walk on the Campagna, The Peasant and Contadina, A Scene in the Corso, A Frolic of the Carnival, Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello. Vol. VII and VIII: Our Old Home, and English Note-Books. Vol. IX: Passages from the American Note-Books. Vol. X: Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books. Vol. XI: The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, and Septimius Felton, with an appendix containing The Ancestral Footstep. Vol. XII: Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers, with a biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop. Introductory sketch, Sketches from memory (The Inland Port, Rochester, A Night Scene), Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man (My Home Return), My Visit to Niagara, The Antique Ring, Graves and Goblins, Dr. Bullivant, A Book of Autographs, An Old Woman's Tale, Time's Portraiture: address, "Browne's Folly", Benjamin West, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Cromwell, Benjamin Franklin, Queen Christina, Mrs. Hutchinson, Sir William Phips, Sir William Pepperell, Thomas Green Fessenden, Jonathan Cilley, Alice Doane's Appeal, Chiefly About War Matters, Life of Franklin Pierce, Sketch of the Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Vol. XIII: Doctor Grimshawe's Secret, edited with preface and notes by Julian Hawthorne. Vols. XIV and XV: Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife by Julian Hawthorne.

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