Author: HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
Title: The Scarlet Letter (the Modern Readers' Series)
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. Hardcover. First published in 1850, "The Scarlet Letter" is probably Nathaniel Hawthorne's best-known work. It is offered here in a compact 1939 reprint edition with black & white illustrations by G. M. Richards. Includes an introduction by Elizabeth Deering Hanscom and study questions at rear of volume. An entry in the publisher's "Modern Readers' Series." --- In blue cloth, with titling and decorations to cover and spine stamped in gilt. Lacks a dust jacket. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with cover & spine decorations and titling in gilt. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With prior owner's dated signature to front free endpaper, penciled markings scattered through the text, some discoloration to cloth and a little loss of cover & spine gilding's brightness, else a tightly-bound, bright copy. ; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxii, 361 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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