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Hawthorne, Nathaniel 

The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850

8vo (180 x 115 mm). Title-page printed in red and black, with "reduplicate" instead of "repudiate" on p. 21, line 20, final blank present; lacking publisher's advertisements. Original brown cloth decoratively ruled and stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, cream endpapers; cocked, extremities rubbed with some loss. 

First edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's iconic tale of guilt and redemption set in Puritan Massachusetts.

REFERENCES:

BAL 7600; Clark A16.1; Grolier American 59