Twice-Told Tales. Selected and Introduced by Wallace Stegner and Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1966.
One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 1403.
Quarto. 430 pp. Publisher's full powder-blue homespun linen, red label to spine stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge stained red. A fine copy with original, very slightly sunned, slipcase.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was one of the earliest American novelists to gain a worldwide audience. His works were darkly romantic and moralistic, and took place in his native New England. The theme of repentance and dignity is common throughout Hawthorne's works.
Newman & Wiche, 388.
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3654
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100