The Scarlet Letter. A Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$25,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, one of 2,500 copies. Title page printed in red and black. iv, 322 pp. With the preliminary ads dated March 1, 1850. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blind-stamped brown cloth, yellow endpapers, inserted ads. Fine, entirely unrestored copy with contemporary albumen portrait of Hawthorne tipped to the front pastedown. Cloth folding box. BAL 7600; Johnson, p. 38; Clark A16.1. Item #377271 First edition of one

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