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Publisher's original brown, embossed, cloth-covered boards, rebacked in yellow cloth with paper spine label and new endpapers [though the original free endpapers and final blank have been retained]. Complete with the four pages of integral ads at the front and a twelve page publisher's catalogue inserted at the back [Clark notes catalogues of 8, 12, 14, and 16 pp. with no priority]. Hawthorne's second separate publication and the first to carry his name on the title-page. Some scattered light foxing, heavier on the first and last few pages. A good copy of a scarce and important book, containing some of the author's best known short fiction, including 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'The Gentle Boy.' One of 1000 copies. Clark A 2.1.

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.