"Martin Boyne looked down on the troop of first-class passengers struggling up the gangway, their faces all unconsciously lifted to his inspection": First edition of Edith Wharton's The Children
The Children.
Wharton, Edith.
$125.00Item Number: 92494
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928.
First edition of Edith Wharton’s sophisticated satire. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some wear to the extremities.
Written with all the subtleties of perception and technique of which Edith Wharton is a master, The Children gleams with unforgettable characters and firm satiric wit. "The Children is more than likely to prove the most popular novel Mrs. Wharton has ever penned" (The New York Times).
Other Books by this Author
First Edition of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer-Prize Winning Work Age of Innocence in the Rare Original Dust Jacket
Wharton, Edith.
The Age of Innocence.
New York: D. Appleton, 1920.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, original red cloth. A very good example with some rubbing to the bottom cloth in the rare original unrestored dust jacket with some chips and wear to the spine and panels. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare, especially in the original unrestored dust jacket.
Price: $9,500.00
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First Edition of Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
Wharton, Edith.
The Glimpses of the Moon.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1922.
First edition of Wharton’s sweeping epic. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near dust jacket with light wear and closed tears to the extremities. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $475.00
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First Editions of Each Volume in Edith Wharton's Old New York; With the Rare Original Slipcase
Wharton, Edith.
Old New York: False Dawn, The Forties; The Old Maid, The Fifties; Old New York, The Sixties; and New Year’s Day, the Seventies.
New York: D. Appleton, 1924.
First editions of each of the four volumes that compose of Edith Wharton’s Old New York. Octavo, four volumes; original blue cloth; original slipcase. Each volume is in near fine condition with the original dust jackets which show just a touch of rubbing and wear. The original slipcase is in very good condition. The nicest example we have seen or handled.
Price: $1,500.00
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"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?": First Edition of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer-Prize Winning Work Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith.
The Age of Innocence.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good with some light wear to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A nice example.
Price: $3,500.00
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"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?": First Edition of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer-Prize Winning Work Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith.
The Age of Innocence.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good with some light toning to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $3,250.00
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First Edition of Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
Wharton, Edith.
The Glimpses of the Moon.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1922.
First edition of Wharton’s sweeping epic. Octavo, original blue cloth. Contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown, near fine in a near dust jacket with light wear and closed tears to the extremities. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $500.00
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"an historian of the American society of her time" (Edmund Wilson) First Edition of Edith Wharton's Madame de Treymes
Wharton, Edith.
Madame de Treymes.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.
First edition of this subtle investigation of the clash of cultures and the role of women in the social hierarchy. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with color plates. In near fine condition with a touch of rubbing. A very sharp example.
Price: $100.00
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"A seminal work on garden design": First Edition of Edith Wharton's Italian Villas and Their Gardens
Wharton, Edith; Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish.
Italian Villas and Their Gardens.
New York: The Century Company, 1904.
First edition of Wharton’s classic treatise on “Italian garden-magic.” Quarto, original dark green cloth, top edge gilt. With 45 full-page plates, including 26 illustrations by Maxfield Parrish (15 in color), seven in-text and 19 black-and-white photographic illustrations. In near fine condition with some light rubbing and wear. Bookplate. A nice example.
Price: $1,350.00
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“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day”: First Edition of Edith Wharton's Italian Backgrounds
Wharton, Edith.
Italian Backgrounds.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work, with text by Wharton. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. Illustrated by E.C. Peixotto. Frontispiece and Illustrated throughout. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00
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“The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts”: First Edition of one of the classic works on Interior Design The Decoration of Houses
Wharton, Edith & Ogden Codman Jr.
The Decoration of Houses.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.
First edition of Edith Wharton’s first published book. Octavo, original marbled paper boards. Illustrated with 56 plates. In near fine condition with rubbing. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $2,500.00
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First Edition of Edith Wharton's Xingu and Other Stories
Wharton, Edith.
Xingu and Other Stories.
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1916.
First edition of this short story masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00
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First Edition of Edith Wharton's The Mother's Recompense
Wharton, Edith.
The Mother’s Recompense.
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1925.
First edition of this work by the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $50.00
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“I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome": First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition contemporary name to the front free endpaper. A very nice example.
Price: $1,800.00
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"When she spoke like that he could have lifted the world on his shoulders": Rare first edition of Edith Wharton's Certain People
Wharton, Edith.
Certain People.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930.
First edition of this collection of six short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some wear to the extremities.
Price: $125.00
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome; From the library of Michael Sadleir
Wharton, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. From the library of Michael Sadleir with his bookplate to the pastedown. Sadleir was a British publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer. Sadleir began to work for the publishing firm of Constable & Co. in 1912, becoming a director in 1920, and chairman in 1954. In 1920 as editor of Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield for Constable he insisted on censoring sections of her short story Je ne parle pas français which show the cynical attitudes to love and sex of the narrator. Her husband John Middleton Murry persuaded Sadlier to reduce the cuts slightly (Murry and Sadleir had founded the avant-garde quarterly Rhythm in 1912)
After the end of World War I, he served as a British delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and worked at the secretariat of the newly formed League of Nations. As a literary historian, he specialized in 19th century English fiction, notably the work of Anthony Trollope. Together with Ian Fleming and others, Sadleir was a director and contributor to The Book Handbook, later renamed The Book Collector, published by Queen Anne Press. An exceptional example, with noted provenance.Price: $2,000.00
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“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making": First edition of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith.
The House of Mirth.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
First edition, first issue with the Scribner’s seal to the copyright page of the novel that brought Wharton international success. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated with eight plates by A.B. Wenzell. In near fine condition, contemporary name to the front free endpaper. A sharp example.
Price: $1,200.00
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Rosenson, Audrey; Executive Editor: Paul H. Bonner, Jr. (Cecil Beaton, Vivien Leigh).
The World in Vogue.
New York: The Viking Press, 1963.
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