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Riverside edition. A complete thirteen volume set in fifteen books. Illustrated with etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner. Uniform burgundy cloth with gilt-ruled front boards, gilt-stamped spine titles, and top edges gilt. Some hinges and gutters cracked, faint dampstain on page edges of volume five "The Scarlet Letter", small stain on front board of volume six "The Marble Faun", light dampstain on spines of volume nine "American Note-Books" and volumes fourteen and fifteen "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife", still a very good or better set belonging to a noted American poet with his name penned on endpapers and his penciled notations and underlinings in some of the volumes. Laid in are papers with notes and or postcards addressed to the poet. 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: A Wonder-Book, Tanglewood Tales, and Grandfather's Chair. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (Introductory note, Preface, Tanglewood Porch: introductory to "The Gorgon's Head", The Gorgon's Head, Tanglewood Porch: After the Story, Shadow Brook: introductory to "The Golden Touch", The Golden Touch, Shadow Brook: after the story, Tanglewood Play-Room: introductory to "The Paradise of Children", The Paradise of Children ; Tanglewood Play-Room: after the story, Tanglewood Fireside: introductory to "The Three Golden Apples", The Three Golden Apples, Tanglewood Fireside: after the story, The Hill-Sid.
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