May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478

Sale 2478 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The Scarlet Letter. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, top 2-inches of spine perished, spine foot and corners rubbed with exposure, few light stains to boards; front hinge cracked at title-page; occasional minor foxing, chiefly to front and end matter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850
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first edition, first printing (with "reduplicate" for "repudiate" on page 21), and 4-pages publisher's advertisements before preliminaries, dated March 1, 1850. One of only 2500 copies printed. BAL 7600; Grolier 90.