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Lot 24
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$2,176
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Lot Description
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850.
8vo. 4pp. publisher's ads dated 1 March 1850 bound in at front; title printed in red and black. (Tiny stain to fore-edge of text block and a few margins.) Original brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine (recased, spine ends renewed).
FIRST 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; Grolier American 59.