E. Wharton & Co. offers literary first editions of the 19th c. through the present, featuring women writers, original women's rights material, items related to women and women's issues, as well as decorated trade bindings, cookery titles and, occasionally, movable and pop-up books. Established in 1979, the firm is named for author Edith Wharton who, as a writer of exceptional ability and range, suggests the abundance and variety of talented women writers. We have handled archives of Elizabeth Bishop, Clara Barton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, among other women significant in American letters, and developed collections of the works of contemporary writers such as Amy Clampitt, Edwidge Danticat, Anne Tyler and Wendy Wasserstein.

Sarah Baldwin, the owner, is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. She recently served as President of the ABAA and also is a member of the Virginia Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, The Ephemera Society, and the Washington Rare Book Group.

E. Wharton & Co. exhibits at ABAA book fairs on the east and west coast and regularly issues catalogs and lists. Our location in Crozet, Virginia is ten miles west of Charlottesville. Those of you who have read Rita Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie mysteries will feel familiar with the town which lies within view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We welcome your visit by appointment.

Rare Book School at the University of Virginia will begin its 2012 sessions in June and hold its final session in August.  Please see rarebookschool.org for information regarding RBS, its classes and lectures.  Former ABAA president Stuart Bennett will give a lecture on English bindings, Monday, July 16th and we encourage you to attend.  We also encourage those coming to Charlottesville for RBS to make the short 10-mile trip to Crozet to see our stock, and to enjoy the Virginia landscape en route.