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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: AUTHORITATIVE: SUPERB: AS-NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1982) Printing Unstated (Assumed First), NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $25.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW maroon Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-maroon LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished Olin Nyallite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.84", 0.92 kg, 1493 pp * CONTENTS: Tales & Sketches (1), A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys (1159), Tanglewood Tales for Girls & Boys (1303), Chronology (1471), Note on the Texts (1477), Notes (1483) * ABOUT THE BOOK: 'Tales & Sketches' offers what no reader has ever been able to find: an authoritative edition of Hawthorne's complete stories in a single comprehensive volume. Here is everything for his three collections: 'Twice-Told Tales', 'Mosses from an Old Manse', 'The Snow-Image, & Other Twice Told Tales', & 16 uncollected stories. The unique arrangement by order of publication charts Hawthorne's evolution into one of the most powerful & experimental writers of American fiction. From familiar but always surprising works like "Young Goodman Brown," to masterly fables like "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," to lesser-known gems like "The Wives of the Dead", these haunting stories of love & guilt, of duty & license, of the fateful ties of family & nation, show why Hawthorne is a great artist, & an astonishingly contemporary one. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Roy Harvey Pearce is emeritus professor of American literature at the University of California at San Diego. He has published extensively on 19th-century American literature & intellectual history & served on the editorial board of the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ Domestic USPS PRIORITY MAIL available for a nominal additional fee & shipment of all international orders via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates.