The Scarlet Letter, and The Blithedale Romance: Two Volumes in One (Hawthorne's Works)
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875.
Price: $50.00
Hardcover. Illustrated Library edition. Two volumes bound as one. Decorative green cloth blind ruled and gilt-stamped. Ownership signature of poet Daniel Hoffman on the front fly with his pen and pencil markings on a pages, owner's name on blank preliminary, gutter broken with some pages loose and laid in, offsetting on page with postcard laid in, extremities worn and frayed, a fair to good only copy.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
birth name: Nathaniel Hathorne
born: 7/4/1804
died: 5/16/1864
nationality: USA
Biography
American novelist and short-story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore