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Hawthorne, Nathaniel : The Celestial Railroad

Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, New York, 1904

Original publisher's white boards with an illustration and gilt decorations on front cover. 5" x 7 1/4." Twenty-eight pages, complete. Former owner's inscription in ink in the upper-right corner of the front pastedown with the date, "8/16/1933." The inscription is small and almost imperceptible. Pages and covers are clean and intact. Slight wear at the head and tail of spine. Slight dampstaining in the lower-right corner of the front cover and lower-left corner of the back cover. Excerpt from the Introduction by J. M. W.: "The readers of John Bunyan will not need to be told that 'The Celestial Railroad' is a humorous modern version of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' to the Heavenly City. ... The clever parody, though first appearing quietly and anonymously, received a great deal of aattention from the outset and was soon reprinted. It first came out in 'The Democratic Review.' ... Hawthorne's name was still not connected with it. He was not then widely known as an author, and, as one of his biographers says, 'He wrote stories and published them, but nobody knew who wrote them.'". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover