Description
Inscribed first edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Mark Van Doren, inscribed to the editor of the American Men of Letters Series, Elizabeth C. Moore.
Octavo, xiii, [3], 285pp. Red cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Stated “First Printing” on the copyright page. Top edge dyed red. Appears unread. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $3.50 retail price on front flap, sunning to the spine, light soiling to boards, a very good example.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Mark Van Doren / -a true copy (no errors?) for Elizabeth C. Moore, best friend of its text. 5/10/49.”
Published as the third volume in the American Men of Letters Series. A critical biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne examining his life through his fiction. Van Doren was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic, and longtime professor of English at Columbia University.
