The Scarlet Letter. A Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, first printing. iv , 322 pp. 4 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, boards stamped in blind. Rubbied, some discoloration to boards, hinges cracked, head of spine chipped and partially split. Early ownership in black ink on flyleaf. Publication points are annotated in pencil i.e. reduplicate in place of repudiate and mortal for moral and so forth .

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