Later Printing. Brown covers with ornate blind-stamped decoration, frontis. steel engraving, 256pp. Six classic children's stories, especially re-written by Hawthorne, each with an introduction and afterword; illustrated "with engravings by Baker from designs by Billings." The stories are: The Gorgon's Head, The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher and The Chimera. Spine cocked, original backstrip lacking and replaced with brown tape, corners bumped & rubbed, edges faded, text generally crisp & clean -- with a bit of scattered foxing on some of the pages.

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