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Riverside edition. A twelve volume set lacking Volume IV *A Wonder-Book*, but including Volume XIII *Dr. Grimshawe's Secret*. Illustrated with etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner. Uniform brown pebble cloth with red leather spine labels printed in gilt, top edges gilt. Some hinges and gutters cracked, faint dampstain on all cloth boards, light dampstain in gutter or on page edges of volumes one, two, five, seven, and twelve, lacking the half-title and title pages with gutter cracked in volume three (Seven Gables), volume five with boards soiled and most of spine label chipped and unreadable, spine lables rubbed with minor chips, about very good set without dustwrappers as issued. Vol. I: Twice-told tales: Introductory note, Preface, The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Wedding Knell, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry Mount, The Gentle Boy, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, Little Annie's Ramble, Wakefield, A Rill from the Town Pump, The Great Carbuncle, The Prophetic Pictures, David Swan, Sights from a Steeple, The Hollow of the Three Hills, The Toll-Gatherer's Day, The Vision of the Fountain, Fancy's Show Box, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Legends of the Province House (Howe's Masquerade, Edward Randolph's Portrait, Lady Eleanor's Mantle, Old Esther Dudley), The Haunted Mind, The Village Uncle, The Ambitious Guest, The Sister Years, Snowflakes, The Seven Vagabonds, The White Old Maid, Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure, Chippings With a Chisel, The Shaker Bridal, Night Sketches, Endicott and the Red Cross, The Lily's Quest, Footprints on the Sea-Shore, Edward Fane's Rosebud, The Threefold Destiny. Vol. II: Mosses from an Old Manse, Introductory note, The Old Manse, The Birthmark, A Select Party, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter, Mrs. Bullfrog, Fire Worship, Buds and Bird Voices, Monsieur du Miroir, The Hall of Fantasy, The Celestial Railroad, The Procession of Life, Feathertop : a moralized legend, The New Adam and Eve, Egotism, or, The Bosom Serpent, The Christmas Banquet, Drowne's Wooden Image, The Intelligence Office, Roger Malvin's Burial, P.'s Correspondence, Earth's Holocaust, Passages from a Relinquished Work, Sketches from Memory, The Old Apple Dealer, The Artist of the Beautiful, A Virtuoso's Collection. Vol. III: The House of the Seven Gables, and The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales, The House of the Seven Gables (Introductory note, Preface, The Old Pyncheon Family, The Little Shop-Window, The First Customer, A Day Behind the Counter, May and November, Maule's Well, The Guest, The Pyncheon of To-day, Clifford and Phoebe, The Pyncheon Garden, The Arched Window, The Daguerreotypist, Alice Pyncheon, Phoebe's Good-bye, The Scowl and Smile, Clifford's Chamber, The Flight of Two Owls, Governor Pyncheon, Alice's Posies, The Flower of Eden, The Departure), The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales. (Introductory note, Preface, The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle, The Great Stone Face, Main Street, Ethan Brand, A Bell's Biography, Sylph Etherege, The Canterbury Pilgrims, Old News (The Old French War, The Old Tory), The Man of Adamant: An Apologue, The Devil in Manuscript, John Inglefield's Thanksgiving, Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of the Past, The Wives of the Dead, Little Daffydowndilly, My Kinsman, Major Molineux). [Vol. IV: Missing Volume.] Vol. V: The Scarlet Letter, and The Blithedale Romance. The Scarlet Letter (Introductory note, Preface to the 2nd edition, The Custom-House: introductory, The Prison-Door, The Market-Place, The Recognition, The Interview, Hester at Her Needle, Pearl, The Governor's Hall, The Elf-Child and the Minister, The Leech, The Leech and His Patient, The Interior of a Heart, The Minister's Vigil, Another View of Hester, Hester and the Physician, Hester and Pearl, A Forest Walk, The Pastor and His Parishioner, A Flood of Sunshine, The Child at the Brook-Side, The Minister in a Maze, The New England Holiday, The Procession, The Revelation of the Scar. Seller Inventory # 449380
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