The House of the Seven Gables
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel And Hans Christian Anderson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, Nelson Doubleday, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, near fine. Black boards with gilt lettering and design. Gilt on spine. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. A handsome volume. Giftable. 298 pp. No dj. allegorical short fiction, based on a curse supposedly set on Hawthorne's own family during the infamous Salem witchcraft trials.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2226
- Title
- The House of the Seven Gables
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel And Hans Christian Anderson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garden City, Nelson Doubleday
- Date Published
- 1980
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
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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...