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Very good copy in the original pictorial cloth. Rebacked with the original spine laid back. Spine cover tanned. Panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed. Bumped corners. New endpapers. Light tanning around page margins. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages; One of the three unfinished romances that were not published until after the death of Nathaniel Hawthorne. xiii, 368p., ilus., facsims.; 20cm. Genre: American literature -- Fiction -- Romance -- 19th century -- United States. Notes: 1st trade edition : Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #7642, 'trade edition'. 1 Kg.

Large octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-xiii [xiv] 1-368 [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece and vignette title leaf, inserted four-page facsimile manuscript, vignette title leaf printed in red, brown and black, original gray boards, printed paper label affixed spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition, (large paper) fourth printing. 270 copies printed on handmade laid paper of which 250 were numbered and bound. According to the publisher's records, this edition was not printed until 29 September 1883, about ten months after the first printing of the trade edition. Hawthorne's portrayal of the archetypal mad/bad scientist/alchemist gives a minor SF theme to this romance. Reginald 06952. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). BAL 7642. Clark A31.1.d. Wright (III) 2606. A fine copy in a torn and taped printed dust jacket. Rare in jacket. (#107424)