THE SCARLET LETTER. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1860 2nd edtition

The Scarlet Letter, a Romance

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

including Hawthorne's "Preface to the Second Edition (Salem, March 30, 1850) and the author's "The Custom-House (introductory to "The Scarlet Letter")

1860 Second Edition, Ticknor and Fields, Boston

Original publishers ornamental blind stamped brown hardcover cloth, gold-titled on spine, original brown-coated end-papers

Size: 7-1/2 x 5" Octavo. 307 pages plus 4 pages of ads

Condition: Very good, Covers mostly clean with corners, & head and tail of spine bumped, light foxing on title page is nearly imperceptable by page 1; pages tight and clean throughout

Complete in one volume .................................................................SOLD