"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).
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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. A nice example.
Price: $1,800.00
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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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"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 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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“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. 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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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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“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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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 Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novel Age of Innocence; Finely Bound
Wharton, Edith.
The Age of Innocence.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, bound in full burgundy morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, raised bands. In fine condition.
Price: $1,600.00
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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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"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 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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“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty": First Edition of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking; Signed by Her
Didion, Joan.
The Year of Magical Thinking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of the account of the year following the death of the author’s husband. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $475.00
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First Edition of Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers in the Rare Original Dust Jacket
Yezierska, Anzia.
Bread Givers: A Novel.
Doubleday, Page & Company: Garden City, NY, 1925.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on the limitation page. Very good in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear.
Price: $2,500.00
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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
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"LIGHT OF MY LIFE, FIRE OF MY LOINS": FIRST Annotated EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
Nabokov, Vladimir. Preface, Introduction and notes by Alfred, Appel, Jr.
The Annotated Lolita.
New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1970.
First edition of the piracy edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece with annotations by Nabokov expert Alfred Appel, Jr. Octavo, original cloth. Photograph portrait of Nabokov to the rear panel by Halsman. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $150.00