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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. FIRST EDITION, EUGENE FIELD'S COPY.
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. 

8vo (178 x 110 mm). Title printed in red and black; 4-page publisher's advertisements dated 1 March 1850 bound in at front. Original blind-stamped cloth (text block detached from binding and cracked, portion of spine detached but present, some wear); slipcase. Provenance: Gordon Robins, Jr. (bookplate); old bookseller's handwritten note tipped to advertisement leaf; Eugene Field (bookplate, gift inscription from Charles L. Williams, 1844, note from Eugene Field II on final blank).

EUGENE FIELD'S COPY with his bookplate, and with a note from Eugene Field II: "This copy was given to my father, Eugene Field, by his publisher Geo. H. Yenowine, and it is a first edition of the Scarlet Letter and was highly prized by him."

FIRST EDITION with 4-page publisher's ads dated 1 March 1850. 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.

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