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Pleasantville: Reader's Digest, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover_vinyl spine. Collectible - Fine. Lars Hokanson. 6.25"x9.25". 335 pages. 2nd printing. Navy cloth boards. Hawthorne's silhouette and letters in gilt on front w/blind stamped ivy. Black vinyl spine w/gilt letters. Union gray paste downs. Afterwords by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. USED GIFT QUALITY. Twice-Told Tales, originally published in 1837 & 1842 and revised and republished by Hawthorne in 1851 (the edition reproduced here), is the most famous collection of Hawthorne's stories. All of Hawthorne's great gifts - and the features that make him not only one of the greatest but one of the most contemporary American authors, are on full display here. Insert from Reader's Digest The World's Best Reading which has a brief bio on Hawthorne is included.

Pleasantville NY: Reader's Digest, (1989). Illustrated by Lars Hokanson. World's Best Reading edition. pp. 4 Series brochure laid in and set of six bookmarks from series. Blue decorated green quarter cloth, gilt print spine. 8vo. pp. 335. As New/No jacket, as issued. Afterwords by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allen Poe. Unread copy..

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Edinburgh : Paterson, 1883. William Paterson edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 250 pages : 1 portrait ; 18 cm. Subjects: American fiction 19th century. Short stories, American 19th century.

Boston: American Stationers Co, 1837. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 334 pages (with 4 pages ads at front, 12 pages ads at back). Mild scattered foxing, some extremity rubs and shallow chips to cloth along board edges. Hinges not cracked but joints have a few splits.. Hawthorne's third publication in book form and the first to bear his name. This collection of 18 stories won immediate recognition for its author, though all had previously appeared in annuals or magazines. Hawthorne himself assembled and edited them for this collection. <br /> <br /> The included story "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe" is very close to being a detective story in the purest sense. Indeed, none other than Edgar Allan Poe, (whose "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published four years later, and often credited with the first modern detective story) called Hawthorne's story "vividly original and managed most dexterously." <br /> <br /> One… Read More