![The scarlet letter: A romance](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/938/870/9780913870938.OL.0.m.jpg)
The scarlet letter: A romance Hardcover - 1979
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
Description
Details
- Title The scarlet letter: A romance
- Author Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Language ENG
- Publisher Abaris Books, New York
- Date 1979
- Bookseller's Inventory # M18.SCARLETLETTER.3.15.18
- ISBN 9780913870938
About PACIFIC COAST BOOK SELLERS California, United States
Specializing in Art books but will also carry everything Novels to Sports titles with special interest in signed books, 1st Edition etc...
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About this book
The Scarlett Letter was one of the first mass-produced novels in the United States, prior printing of books generally done by hand. The 2,500 copies first printed sold out in days, and the mass-production of books opened up conversation about books and authors to a wider-audience on a national level. The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in ten days and “made Hawthorne’s fame, changed his fortune and gave to our literature its first symbolic novel a year before the appearance of Melville’s Moby-Dick” (Bradley). Although an instant best-seller, the books sales over fourteen years only brought the author $1500.
Summary
First Edition Identification
First edition published by Ticknor, Reeds and Fields, in Boston 1850. Main first edition marker is "reduplicate" instead of "repudiate" on page 21 Four page publisher's adverts at front dated March 1, 1850 and preceding the free end paper. The brown T-cloth favored by Ticknor & Fields is famous for becoming brittle with age, and cracking or fraying at the spine tips. First editions can run upwards of $20,000.
The second edition adds a preface and has a Metcalf imprint on verso of title-page. The third printing has the same preface but has a Hobart & Robbins imprint on verso of title-page.
Categories
- Fiction & Literature Fiction by Region American Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Classic Literature
- Fiction & Literature Historical Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Literary Studies Literary Criticism
- Fiction & Literature Modern Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Mystery & Thrillers Mystery
- Children & Juvenile Juvenile & Young Adult Juvenile Fiction & Literature