Books

First Edition. Publisher's cloth; foxing; contemporary owner's signature of L. Thaxter, later the husband of Celia Thaxter on the front free endpaper; rebacked with the original cloth spine laid down; hinges cracking; some cloth fraying; overall about very good. In a custom quarter-morocco slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Twice-Told Tales is a collection of previously published short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne that was duely noted for its depiction of moral allegories concerning the American Puritanism of Hawthorne's time.