Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Title: The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni.
Description: Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1899. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. I: 253pp.; II: 259pp. Advertised as "The Roman Edition" in the half-title of volume I. White linen cloth stamped in gilt with horizontal wrap-around design of stylized poppies, with Sarah Wyman Whitman's signature paraphe (her initials within a drooping heart) at back panel, letter in gilt on spines. Illustrated with the frontispiece portrait of the author in volume I, and half-tone photographs and decorated head-pieces throughout. Some soiling to covers. Some staining to margin of first thirty leaves of volume II. Good.

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