THE MARBLE FAUN
de HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- Estado
- Small university bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. About Fine in a Fine slipcase
- Librería
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Zurich: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Carl Strauss. Two duodecimo volumes (4-3/8" x 7") bound in full flexible tan tweed with gold-stamped orange cloth labels. Illustrated with etchings by Carl Strauss printed in gravure and hand-colored. Copy #1266 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
Sinopsis
The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society.
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- Librería
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 018563
- Título
- THE MARBLE FAUN
- Autor
- HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
- Ilustrador
- Carl Strauss
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Small university bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. About Fine in a Fine slipcase
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Limited Editions Club
- Lugar de publicación
- Zurich
- Fecha de publicación
- 1931
- Palabras clave
- Signed, Limited Editions, Hawthorne, 19th Century Literature, Color Plate Books, Fine Press, 19th Century American Literature
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Hand-colored;
Términos de venta
Charles Agvent
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Sobre el vendedor
Charles Agvent
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
Sobre Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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