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Tanglewood Tales; The Blithedale Romance; The House of Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories from History; Wonder Book; Mosses from an Old Manse; New Adam and Eve; Twice Told Tales; The Province House; The Snow Image; Our Old Home

Tanglewood Tales; The Blithedale Romance; The House of Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories from History; Wonder Book; Mosses from an Old Manse; New Adam and Eve; Twice Told Tales; The Province House; The Snow Image; Our Old Home

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Tanglewood Tales; The Blithedale Romance; The House of Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories from History; Wonder Book; Mosses from an Old Manse; New Adam and Eve; Twice Told Tales; The Province House; The Snow Image; Our Old Home

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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  • Hardcover
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About This Item

London: Walter Scott, 1885. Hardcover, complete 6-volume set, bound in half leather with marbled paper sides. Published between 1885-1894. 4 raised bands, gilt printing and gilt decorations to spines. Marbled endpapers and marbled page block. Board edges and corners rubbed, previous owner's name stamped to half-title page in each. Light foxing to internal pages. Volume comprising Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables has a tear to upper edge of title page and the binding is a little loose. Other bindings very good and internal pages are clean and unmarked. AD. leather. Very Good. Used.

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Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls , published in1853, is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children. The book includes the myths of: Theseus and the Minotaur (Chapter : "The Minotaur") Antaeus and the Pygmies (Chapter: "The Pygmies") Dragon's Teeth (Chapter: "The Dragon's Teeth") Circe's Palace (Chapter: "Circe's Palace") Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegranate Seed (Chapter: "The Pomegranate Seed") Jason and the Golden Fleece (Chapter: "The Golden Fleece")

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Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Marbled Paper
Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
Title Page
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Raised Band(s)
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