The Skarlet Letter. The Blithedale Romance. Very rare edition.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel [The Skarlet Letter. The Blithedale Romance. Collected Works. 2 vol.]. Bagrovii Znak. Blitdeil. Sobranie sochinenii. 2 t.

Translation by I. Maevskii.

Moskva, Izdanie I.A. Maevskogo, 1912-1913.
8vo, vol. I. XIII, [2], 224 pp.; vol. II. 250 pp.

In original pictorial wrappers.
In good condition (vol. I) and near good condition (vol. II). Rebacked (vol. II). Wrappers worn, small losses to spine, owner signature to front cover (vol. I), bookseller's label with new price to back cover (vol. I), dampstaining at upper margin of block (vol. II), traces of owner stamp to front cover (vol. II).

Second Russian edition of 'The Scarlet Letter'. First Russian edition of 'The Blithedale Romance'. The only edition of this translation. This first and only Russian edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's collected works was interrupted after the second volume.

The first Russian translation of any of Hawthorne's works appeared as early as 1852, and four years later, the first Russian translation of 'The Scarlet Letter' was published. However, over time, Hawthorne somehow came to be seen more as a children's author rather than an author for adults.
These novels were translated and published by Iosif Maevskii (1874-1937), who lived in the United States in the early 1900s and corresponded with Jack London. Upon returning to Russia in 1910, he founded the publishing house 'Athenaeum' (later known as 'Knigoizdatel'stvo I.A. Maevskogo'), where the first Russian editions of Jack London's collected works were published. In October 1937, Maevskii was arrested and subsequently executed.
The next Russian translation of 'The Scarlet Letter' appeared only in 1957. The next and last Russian translation of 'The Blithedale Romance' was completed only in 1982.

Libman, # 2088.

OCLC locates only one copy of ‘The Blithedale Romance’: in the Aix-Marseille University Library (France).

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