THE SCARLET LETTER
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New York: John B. Alden, 1892. Gilded Age edition in an elaborately constructed vernacular dust jacket, with an original watercolor painted onto the front panel and incorporating silk ribbons. Very good. Item #39497 Though somewhat out of favor with critics after the Civil War, Hawthorne's star rose again in the last quarter of the 19th century in part due to the championing of major American voices like Henry James, who
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