Beautiful Copy of Hawthorne's Greek Myths for Young People

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

Tanglewood Tales

London / New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd / E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., (1966). Line drawings and color plates by Salomon van Abbé. Full leather. Octavo. viii, 248 pages. Bound in red leather over boards with gilt-stamped spine and border rules on both boards. Five raised bands on spine, with title and author stamped in gilt on blue and green title blocks. Marbled endpapers, dentelles, all dges gilt. Some tiny extremity rubs. Near fine.

A beautifully bound and illustrated edition of Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales. The stories are adaptations of Greek myths for a younger audience. This is the sequel to his 1851 book, "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys."

Item #1040

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