8vo. Title printed in red and black. (Lacking ads, a few marginal stains, a few corners creased.) Original brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine (slight lean to spine, few scattered stains, fore-corners and spine ends rubbed, rear hinge starting); morocco pull-off case.

FIRST EDITION with the contents listed on pp. iii-iv and no preface (the preface appeared on pp iii-iv and the contents list on pp. v-vi in the second edition). Hawthorne's work was an immediate success, selling 2,500 copies in its first week of publication, giving Hawthorne his first literary success. BAL 7600; Clark A16.1; Grolier American 59.