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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding it is a case. BRAND NEW! THE SCARLET LETTER A ROMANCE.[Not A Book] First Edition Clamshell Case.HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. This handsome case is finished in brown Nuba® with a 'sculpted' design of the iconic letter "A" based on this important American novel. Velour finished interior with gold stamping on the spine and black sides. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. "Books definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. This case is 7.6" x 5" x 0.9" The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$4250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo. A wonderful, expressive fine binding by Riviere & Son on a first edition of Hawthorne's most important work, in full crushed levant, the front cover bolding depicting the story's theme with a large scarlet morocco inlay of the letter ìAî, elaborately surrounded with gilt floral tools. The spine in 6 compartments, with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, top edge gilt. Binding signed in GILT STAMPñSIGNED PALLET BY RIVIERE & SON. Title page printed in red and black. The perfect expression of binding and title; a very attractive and well-preserved Riviere binding with expert front and rear hinge repair.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Presented is a second edition printing of Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter, A Romance, with Hawthorne s signature tipped-in, facing the title page. This second edition was published in Boston by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields in 1850 and has the Metcalf and Company Cambridge imprint on the copyright page. Good condition overall. Signature reads Nath: Hawthorne in brown fountain ink. Some fading to signature, as well as damp staining to cut paper. Book paper is generally healthy, save light damp staining to a few leaves. Title printed in red and black. 4-page publisher's advertisements dated October 1, 1849 bound in front. Engraved bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Rebound in 3/4 red leather and cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt tooling, and gilt titles to spine. Gilt tooling to front and back boards. New red marbled endpaper. Top edge gilt. Book presented with custom red cloth slipcase, with Hawthorne s portrait inlaid on front.
Seller: The Great Republic, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter [with signature]. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, 1850.
Price: US$16500.00 + shipping
Description: First and only printing, with the contents listed on pp.iii-iv and without the preface added in the second edition. Octavo (19cm). Blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine, pale yellow endpapers; iv,322pp. Title page printed in two colors. With Hawthorne's signature clipped from a Salem Custom-House document, and tipped in facing title page. Bookplate of Francis H. Underwood to front pastedown. Former dealer's pencil notes to front free e.p. A skillfully rebacked copy, with original backstrip laid down; expert conservation to board corners; straight, sound, and complete, the text quite fresh; Very Good. An appealing copy, despite the repairs, with Hawthorne's signature clipped from a customs document. Hawthorne famously wrote the novel while working at the Salem Custom House, and opened it with a frame narrative in which the narrator discovers the preserved scarlet A itself. A significant association copy, bearing the bookplate of the founder and first associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly, to which Hawthorne would become a regular a contributor. One of 2500 copies printed. State x1 of gathering 21 (no priority) and state a2 of the prelims, per Myerson. MYERSON 16.1. BAL 7600. GROLIER AMERICAN 100 no. 59.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Scarlet Letter. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850.
Price: US$22500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Nathaniel Hawthorne on a laid in signature. This First Issue book has with the correct ads dated "March 1, 1850 and the misprint "reduplicate" for "repudiate" at line 20 page 21. A wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with light wear to the edges. The boards are crisp with minor wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy SIGNED by the author and housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. We buy Hawthorne First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.