TWICE-TOLD TALES ... A New Edition. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. Octavo, two volumes: pp. [1-5] 6-287 [288: blank]; [1-5] 6-288, flyleaves at front and rear of both volumes, inserted frontispiece (engraved portrait of Hawthorne), publisher's decorated brown cloth, all panels stamped in gold and blind, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. New edition. A reprint of the 1842 expanded edition of TWICE-TOLD TALES save for Hawthorne's new 6-page "preface" dated 11 January 1851. The first of Hawthorne's three major collections of short fiction published in his lifetime; a collection of sketches and tales, mostly allegories and moralistic fantasies, including "The Gray Champion," "The Wedding Knell," "The Minister's Black Veil," "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" and "The White Old Maid" (the last collected in volume two of the 1842 expanded edition). The contents of 1842 edition, containing twenty-one additional sketches and tales, were assembled and, in some cases, revised by Hawthorne. 2000 copies of this 1851 edition were printed. This copy is bound in the publisher's more elaborate gift binding. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-79. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 776. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1069. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 196-99. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1536-43. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-47. Bleiler (1978), p. 96. Reginald 06962. BAL 7603. See Wright (I) 1149 and 1150 (citing earlier editions). Clark A 2.6. Attractive book label of Kevin B. MacDonnell affixed to the rear paste-down of each volume. Lower spine ends rubbed, some foxing and staining to frontispiece, tissue guard, and preliminaries of volume I, volume II pretty clean throughout; presents quite well overall. (#178979).
Price: $850.00
"A NEW EDITION" on title page.