The Scarlet Letter
$7,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available
First edition
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition, only printing with uncorrected errors: reduplicate, characterss and known of it. Contrary to popular belief, there are no points of issue for this title, but simple variations including two settings of gathering 21 which resulted in minute variations of no relevance in terms of issue in a proper sense. Bound in publisher's original brown ribbed cloth decorated
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