First edition of this landmark of American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale of Hester Prynne, an accused adulteress living in Puritan New England. With the misprint "reduplicate" for "repudiate" at line 20 page 21. With the printed name Eliza B. Hathaway, pasted to front pastedown. With at least one ad page (called for at front endpapers), pasted down under front pastedown. BAL 7600.