The Scarlet Letter Paperback - 1990
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Paperback
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- Title The Scarlet Letter
- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 43
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1990
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0425120244I3N00
- ISBN 9780425120248 / 0425120244
- Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.1 in (25.91 x 16.76 x 0.25 cm)
- Reading level 410
- Library of Congress subjects Cartoons and comics, Massachusetts - History - Colonial period,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90221487
- Dewey Decimal Code 741.597
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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.
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.
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