Apr 20, 2006 - Sale 2075

Sale 2075 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 55,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 40,000
HAWTHORNE FAMILY COPY HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The Scarlet Letter. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, ends rubbed with loss of cloth, left joint cracked; publisher's catalogue dated March 1, 1850 bound between front endpapers; custom brown morocco solander case with the letter "A" inlaid on the top and stamped in spine compartments, scuffed and dried. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850

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first edition. signed by hawthorne, his son julian, and daughter rose on title-page. with a page of original manuscript by julian