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The House Of The Seven Gables: Classics Illustrated October 1948 Number 52
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Used
- good
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: Gilberton Company Inc. First edition thus, first printing: Coming Next Month ad inside the front cover for 53 A Christmas Carol and the HRN / Highest Reorder Number on the rear cover is 53 A Christmas Carol]. Pictorial wrappers [about 7" x 10.25"], saddle-stapled, unpaginated, color comic illustrated throughout.
Good to Very Good [in book terms] copy with scattered light edgewear, two short fore-edge tears to the rear cover, upper corner creasing, text paper lightly toned. See Photo
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Good to Very Good [in book terms] copy with scattered light edgewear, two short fore-edge tears to the rear cover, upper corner creasing, text paper lightly toned. See Photo
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Synopsis
First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values, replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history." In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation--or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a Romance," and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel." .
Reviews
On Jun 6 2016, a reader said:
I just found a hard back cover edition of this great book on my mother-in-laws book case. She received it for a Christmas present in 1941. It has a number 53 stamped into its back cover. I'm reading it now and enjoying the writers craft and story. I became intrigued with Hawthorne's style and decided to look it up. Thank you for your review and priceless information about the book and the author. I will treasure my copy and forever be grateful to my husbands sweet mother for giving me this window into the past through The House to the Seven Gables. A beautiful reading experience for years to come.
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Details
- Bookseller
- biblioboy
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72660
- Title
- The House Of The Seven Gables: Classics Illustrated October 1948 Number 52
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Format/Binding
- Single issue magazine
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Gilberton Company Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FICTION, CLASSICS, ILLUSTRATED, COMIC, BOOK
- Bookseller catalogs
- COMIC BOOKS;
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North Providence, Rhode Island
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We are biblioboybiblioboy dealers in Books, Stamps, Ephemera, Victorian Trade cards, Magazines, Postcards, Sheet Music, Engravings, and much more. I started out as a book collector and soon progressed to owning a book store with over 80,000 books and more than 10,000 pieces of ephemera, postcards, and other items. I exhibited my stock for years at book and paper shows around the eastern United States. As the book and paper business has changed over the years, I have changed the way I do business to evolve with the times. I now offer my items for sale on the web only, through my various listing services and web sites. Being a a collector, as well as a dealer, I understand the importance of condition, as well as rarity of an item, and the desire to own scarce and one of a kind items.
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