Hawthorne’s Marked-Up Proofs for the ‘Scarlet Letter’ Could Fetch $600,000

Christie’s New York plans to sell off more than 300 pieces of historic American literature, including first editions by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe and other literary icons

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A trove of early American literature for sale includes first editions by Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and Harriet Beecher Stowe A coming auction includes Nathaniel Hawthorne’s corrected page proofs for 1850’s ‘The Scarlet Letter.’Bibliophiles say a rare-book sale later this week at Christie’s could prove to be a literary blockbuster.Continue reading your article with

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