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The scarlet letter

Title: The scarlet letter / by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; this edition illustrated with wood blocks designed and engraved by Valenti Angelo has been printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn ...
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Publication: New York : Random House, 1928.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 1928 06-388	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Grabhorn) (Hawthorne, N. Scarlet letter)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

[7], 362 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Genre/Form

Mosaic bindings (Binding) – United States – 20th century.

Note

"This edition is limited to 980 copies"--3rd prelim. p.

Binding (note)

Binding: Charcoal gray goatskin; front board with irregular shaped panel of onlays in various earth tones (green, taupe, orange, beige) depicting a forest interior. Back board with blind-impressed letter A. Scarlet cloth and paper endleaves; front endleaf with blind-impressed A. By Julie B. Stackpole (signed in pencil on recto of back endleaf and dated "Nantucket, 1984"). In quarter dark gray and beige cloth solander case with marbled paper edges; padded scarlet cloth interior; red lettering on spine.

Call Number

*KP (Grabhorn) (Hawthorne, N. Scarlet letter)

LCCN

44018239

OCLC

977727

Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Title

The scarlet letter / by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; this edition illustrated with wood blocks designed and engraved by Valenti Angelo has been printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn ...

Imprint

New York : Random House, 1928.

Local Note

Copy in *KP: No. 344.

Spencer Coll. copy: No. 411; signed by Edwin Grabhorn, Robert Grabhorn and Valenti Angelo.

Binding

Spencer Coll. copy: Binding: Charcoal gray goatskin; front board with irregular shaped panel of onlays in various earth tones (green, taupe, orange, beige) depicting a forest interior. Back board with blind-impressed letter A. Scarlet cloth and paper endleaves; front endleaf with blind-impressed A. By Julie B. Stackpole (signed in pencil on recto of back endleaf and dated "Nantucket, 1984"). In quarter dark gray and beige cloth solander case with marbled paper edges; padded scarlet cloth interior; red lettering on spine.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy: Gift of Maggy Magerstadt Rosner; with her book label.

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Added Author

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982. Illustrator

Grabhorn, Edwin E. Printer

Grabhorn, Robert. Printer

Stackpole, Julie B. (Julie Beinecke) Binder

Rosner, Maggy Magerstadt, 1923-2011, donor.

Research Call Number

*KP (Grabhorn) (Hawthorne, N. Scarlet letter)

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1928 06-388

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