"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
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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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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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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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"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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“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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“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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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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“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 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 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 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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"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. A nice example.
Price: $1,350.00
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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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Herzl, Theodor (Second Zionist Congress).
Theodor Herzl Second Zionist Congress Shana Tova Postcard.
1898.
Rare 19th century Shana Tova postcard from the Second World Zionist Congress featuring a central portrait of Theodor Herzl flanked by other Zionist leaders Bernard Lazare, Max E. Mandelstamm, Theodor Gaster and Max Nordau. Below the portraits is a biblical verse in Hebrew from Ezekiel 37:21, “Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land” with images of a farmer in Eretz Israel and figures praying at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. Paired with a rare silk handkerchief with floral embroidery and an engraved portrait of Herzl flanked by New Year’s greetings in Yiddish. Both items are in near fine condition. The postcard measures 5.5 inches by 3.5 inches. The handkerchief measures 10 inches by 10 inches. A rare and desirable piece of Judaica.
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"A charming record of the personality of a vanished race and a vanished day"(Eudora Welty): First edition of Nabokov's memoir of his early life
Nabokov, Vladimir.
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951.
First edition of Vladimir Nabokov’s brilliantly written memoir of his youth. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips to the crown and foot of the spine.
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me": First edition of Daphne du Maurier's masterpiece Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne.
Rebecca.
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938.
First edition of du Maurier’s masterpiece later made into the Oscar-winning 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with one small closed tear and light rubbing to the extremities. A nice example.
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Rare mixed early editions of the lives of Michelangelo and Saint Francis of Assisi
G. Barbera, Editore.
Rime e Lettere di Michelagnolo Bounarroti e I Fioretti di San Francesco.
Firenze: G. Barbera, Editore, 1902-1903.
Mixed early editions of two biographies of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and Saint Francis of Assisi. Text in Italian. Two volumes, 12mo, bound in full period vellum, gilt titles and tooling to the spines, red spine labels, gilt ruled, top edges gilt, ribbons bound in. Frontispiece portrait of Michelangelo with tissue guard present. Bound by Rolandi. In near fine condition. A beautiful set.
Price: $450.00
