The Descent of Man and Other Stories.

WHARTON, Edith.

$125.00

Item Number: 110354

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.

First edition of this early collection of Wharton’s short stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, woodcut border to the title page, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.

American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer Edith Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The Descent of Man includes The Mission of Jane, The Other Two, The Quicksand, The Dilettante, The Reckoning, Expiation, The Lady's Maid's Bell, and A Venetian Night's Entertainment.