Second Printing in Original Cloth
Scarlet Letter, a Romance.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.
Full Description:
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.
Second printing, printed the same year as the first. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 inches; 180 x 115 mm). [4, publisher's catalog], [4, blank], vi, 307, [4, blank] pp. With publisher's catalog dated "November 1850" inserted between endpapers, and "Preface to Second Edition."
Original brown vertically-ribbed cloth. Covers blocked in blind with decorative central device. Spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow endpapers. Some light toning and a few instances of spotting. Pages occasionally roughly opened. Some minor chipping to the cloth at head and tail of spine. Previous owner's occasional minor pencil corrections. Sill a very good copy of this American classic.
"This somber romance of conscience and the tragic consequences of concealed guilt is set in Puritan Boston during the mid-17th century. An introductory essay describes the author's experiences as on official of the Salem Custom House, and his supposed discovery of a scarlet cloth letter and documents relating to the story of Hester." (The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 749).
BAL 7601. Clark A16.1.
HBS 69216.
$1,750.
Price: $1,750.00
Item #69216