Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Elaine Raphael (Illust.); Don Bolognese (Illust.)
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance ; A Limited Edition
Franklin Center, Pennyslvania, The Franklin Library, 1978. Limited Edition. Leather Bound. pp. 266. 8vo. Bound in full lovely textured brown leather over boards, featuring elaborate gilt lettering, rules and ornamentation to the spine and boards; three raised bands to spine, four compartments, textured silk endpapers, like silk ribbon-marker, all edges gilt. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece. Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white throughout. Entirely without blemish to the extremities, and contents. Appears unread; as new. A most handsome presentation. Not to be mistaken for earlier (1976) more common printings by the Franklin Library which are not bound in leather. As New This limited edition of the Scarlet Letter is published exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library collection The 100 Greatest Books of All Time.

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