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The Scarlet Letter.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel [illustr. Hugh THOMSON].

London: Methuen and co., 1920. First Thomson Illustrated Edition. Bound in recent red half morocco over red cloth, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Profusely illustrated with 32 tipped in colour plates. Publisher's original cloth front board and spine bound in at rear. Binding is tight and shows no signs of wear. Internally clean, with no signs of spotting or fading. A very attractive and suitably vivid copy of a tale of repentence, repression and guilt in seventeenth century Boston. Considered an American classic. Item #43173

Price: £195.00

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