Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The River side Press, Cambridge, [c.1904].. 8vo. An attractive contemporary Arts and Crafts style binding of full brown morocco, spine flat and gilt lettered direct, both boards gilt tooled with a very decorative recurring pattern of roses and leaves, pictorial bookplate of the Riverside Press to the front and rear pastedowns, top edge gilt. Frontispiece. A lovely copy. Issued as part of the Graylock Edition of the complete writings of Hawthorne. Despite the presence of the Riverside bookplates, it is evidently not a publisher's binding, which being unsigned, could possibly have been done by an accomplished amateur.

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Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 45100
Title: Tales and Sketches
Author: HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The River side Press, Cambridge
Date Published: [c.1904].
Keywords: Literature

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Morocco: Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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...