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First edition. 8vo, 379pp; + index; smooth blue cloth stamped with blind rules and gold lettering; printed grayish-green dust jacket. Touch of dampstaining along fore-edge of p. 385 and rear endpaper (approx. 2-1/2" long by 1/4" deep); light dampstain in same area at back cover and jacket's rear panel. Mild overall dustiness and age-toning to jacket, particularly at spine; shallow chips at upper edge with a closed 1" tear at jacket's rear cover (upper edge). The book is fresh and crisp, with the gilt bright. Very good. Illustrated with photographs. Mrs. Wharton's graceful, if selective memoir. A fairly scarce title: publisher's records suggest the first printing may have been only 5,000 copies. Garrison A47.I.a.

A BACKWARD GLANCE Reminiscences by Edith Wharton
Wharton, Edith.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934.
Price: $350.00
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First edition. Only printing (1/325 copies). 8vo, 62pp; including Index; green gilt-stamped boards. Original glassine wrapper. Glassine has various tears and nicks. The author explains in her Introduction that her work duplicates the existing (Melish) bibliography "in the collations of the American First Editions and in the list of Mrs. Wharton's contributions to books. And these are done according to an entirely different system..." She has added collations of English first editions as well as essays, poems and stories, "that have not been presented to the public in any collected form". Also included is a list of review, articles, appreciations, etc. The second step on the road to a complete bibliography of this major American author. A scarce book and even more so in this nice condition.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF EDITH WHARTON
[Wharton, Edith] Davis, Lavinia.
Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1933.
Price: $200.00
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First Canadian edition. (First edition, first printing, presumed second [Canadian] issue [Garrison]). 12mo, 426pp; vertically-ribbed red cloth stamped in gold front and spine; printed beige dust jacket (lacking the copy at flaps and back panel which appears on the American edition). Gold dimmed. Jacket has an ink spot at rear panel. The book is clean and crisp; the jacket fresh and bright. Very good. Scribners printed 60,000 copies of the novel for the American market. How many were printed for the Canadian is unknown, but a royalty statement four months after publication indicate only 1,000 copies sold. This form of the book is decidedly scarce and in the dust jacket remarkable (the bibliographer does not record it). Gold dimmed. Jacket has an ink spot at rear panel. The book is clean and crisp; the jacket fresh and bright. Near fine/fine. Garrison A32.I.a2.

A SON AT THE FRONT
Wharton, Edith.
Toronto: The Copp Clark Co., Limited, 1923.
Price: $300.00
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First edition. 12mo, 386pp; smooth forest green cloth with printed gold labels front and spine; pictorial gray dust jacket printed in red and black. Front hinge split. Shallow chipping to head of dust jacket's spine; minor chipping at folds. Very good. Illustrated with tipped-in photographs of the featured authors. Written to promote the 1923-24 publishing season and highlight new books by the publishers' most popular writers with chapters on Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, Booth Tarkington and Edith Wharton et al. In his chapter on the latter, Overton wonders whether Mrs. Wharton at age 60 may have written her best work. Yet to come from her pen: THE WORLD OVER, OLD NEW YORK, THE BUCCANEERS, A BACKWARD GLANCE.

AMERICAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT
[Wharton, Edith], Grant Overton.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., George H. Doran, Doubleday, Page & Co., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
Price: $65.00
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First edition. Garrison's Binding B. 12mo (18.3 x 12.5 cm), 240pp; dark red cloth stamped in gold at the front and spine. Title within a heavy-ruled frame, a stylized flower to either side, "By : EDITH WHARTON", also framed by heavy rules at front cover; Title and author ("WHARTON") at spine with thick decorative rule at head and foot, omitting the publisher's imprint. All edges trimmed. The variant clearly trimmed with the title page, for instance, closely cut to the ruled border; Binding A copies show a margin of 1 cm at the fore-edge and lower edge. Decorated title page printed in dark red. LIght wear to tips and foot of spine. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. The quality of the book's production, such as the printing of the text on laid paper, reflects why the author so admired the printer's work. Mrs. Wharton's second collection of short fiction: six tales - The Duchess at Prayer"; "The Angel at the Grave"; "The Recovery"; " 'Copy': A Dialogue"; "The Rembrandt"; "The Moving Finger"; and, "The Confessional". Mrs. Wharton proposed this second collection of short stories to her editor while in the throes of writing THE VALLEY OF DECISION. Focusing on the collection, in fact, gave her fresh energy. Scribner's published CRUCIAL INSTANCES, a title suggested by her editor, in April 1901; the novel appeared the following year. While Garrison records this variant binding, he indicates "no priority" and proffers no explanation for the variant. Whether the publisher ordered and issued Binding B may be open to question. No publisher's imprint appears on the the spine of Binding B, a surprising omission if these copies were for distribution to Scribner's regular booksellers. Garrison A5.I.a, Binding B (Garrison notes only the University of Virginia for Binding B).

CRUCIAL INSTANCES
Wharton, Edith.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.
Price: $300.00
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First edition. Large 8vo, 191pp; + "Photographic Credits"; white wove cloth stamped in gold at the spine; gold dust jacket with photograph of Edith Wharton as a young society debutante at the front cover. Dust jacket worn with the acetate separating from the jacket at various points. Very good. Profusely illustrated. A well-written and perceptive account of the writer's life. Auchincloss does not intend to provide the kind of detail offered by R.W.B. Lewis and Shari Benstock in their more comprehensive biographies, but his point of view, from one whose background bears similarities to the writers, makes the book unique. The well-chosen illustrations admirably enhance the text. Garrison notes the book prints material from previously unpublished letters. Garrison B44.

EDITH WHARTON A Woman in Her Time
[Wharton, Edith] Auchincloss, Louis.
New York: The Viking Press, (1971).
Price: $45.00
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First edition. 8vo, xi, 271pp; beige cloth with dark brown decorative devices and lettering front and spine; printed orange dust jacket. Occasional neat pencil markings to text. Clear tape repair to head of jacket's spine. Very good. An early, thoughtful study of Edith Wharton's writing. The jacket aptly describes the book as "a close analysis and appraisal of Mrs. Wharton's novels and stories showing the range of her speculation and the modernity of her quest in fiction". Nevius' appreciation of her 'modernity', of course, is key. The book also prints previously unpublished excerpts from letters and manuscripts, including fragments from the manuscript of ETHAN FROME. Garrison B34.

EDITH WHARTON A Study of Her Fiction
[Wharton, Edith] Nevius, Blake.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953.
Price: $35.00
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First edition. 1/100 copies. 8vo, 33pp; stiff dark green wrappers with wrap-around printed paper label. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hand-bound by Foolscap Press. Designed by Ann Rosner. Fine. An account of Edith Wharton and her winter home Hyeres in Provence. Although Hyeres was a popular resort before Cannes and Nice, it faded in the public mind. Edith Wharton, however, had good friends in the area: the novelist Paul Bourget, one of her earliest literary friends, and his wife. Teddy and Edith visited their friends and saw for the first time an uninhabited chateau that years later would become Ste Claire. Jones, in quick, lively strokes, tells of the history of the area, Mrs. Wharton's purchase and renovation of the property, her daily schedule and doings at Ste. Claire, the friends who visited and those nearby who made Hyeres additionally interesting. As a final note, the writer records that having the first palm trees on the French Mediterranean, the town acquired the palm tree as the local symbol. "An association of amateurs and professionals united by the same passion for palm trees, Association Fous de Palmiers (The Mad About Palm Trees Association) has its headquarters there". Mrs. Wharton's homes very much reflected her aesthetics and Richard Jones' well-written piece gives an attractive and useful view of the writer.

EDITH WHARTON IN PROVENCE 'Of Interest' chapbook 3
[Wharton, Edith] Jones, Richard.
[Menlo Park, CA]: Occasional Works, (2003).
Price: $35.00
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First edition. First printing with top edge gilt. 12mo, 195pp; vertically-ribbed red cloth stamped in gilt front and spine. Minute wear to tips and ends; tiny bubble at front; covers a trifle darkened. A crisp, firm, bright copy. Near fine. In a custom cloth case, with gilt-stamped leather shelfback. Edith Wharton's masterpiece of vibrant emotional need and bleak emotional deprivation, harrowing yet wrought with a spareness that intensifies the novella. It is worth noting that while writing ETHAN FROME, Edith Wharton forever changed her life: divorced Teddy, sold The Mount and made her residence in France permanent. She had chosen, in fact, to take full responsibility for her life and defy the bonds to which Ethan, Mattie and Zeena submit. ETHAN FROME, the critic Cynthia Woolf suggests, "is a statement of Edith Wharton's coming of age as a novelist". It also marks her coming of age as an individual. ETHAN FROME is a true, uniquely American classic. Garrison A19.I.a. Johnson, HIGHSPOTS, pp.76-77.

ETHAN FROME
Wharton, Edith.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
Price: $1,250.00
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First edition. 8vo, 355pp; + endmatter; deep blue boards with black cloth spine lettered in gold; beige dust jacket. Illustrated with halftone photographs. Fine.

HENRY JAMES AND EDITH WHARTON Letters: 1900-1915
(Wharton, Edith) Powers (ed.), Lyall.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1990).
Price: $20.00
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First edition. First printing. 12mo, 326pp; dark blue moire cloth stamped in gold front and spine; endpapers decorated by E.C. Caswell; pale purple dust jacket. Slight dimming at spine. Jacket, which is supplied, chipped at head of spine (1/3 x 3-/4"), with small chipping at foot of spine, at the top edge and foretips; some creasing also along top edge; mild darkening to spine and dampstaining at spine at reverse. The book is generally fresh and attractive and the jacket uncommon. About very good. Six short stories, three with an earthly venue and three with an unearthly one. As with most short story collections, the book had a relatively small printing; the royalty figures suggest a first printing of perhaps 10,000 copies some of which may have been shipped to England for sale there. It is one of Mrs. Wharton's scarcer titles, Garrison A39.I.a.

HERE AND BEYOND
Wharton, Edith.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1926.
Price: $350.00
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First edition. First printing, American issue; Garrison's Binding A. 4to, 250pp; + endmatter (List of Books Mentioned; Architects and Landscape-Gardeners Mentioned; and, Index); decorated trade binding designed by Decorative Designers: at the front cover, gold-stamped lion and shield design above a pale blue-stamped picture of a garden, gold-stamped pedestal design, with shield and scroll at bottom, and surrounding seven lines stamped in dark grayish-green. Top edge gilded. Contemporary ink inscription (Christmas, 1904) to upper margin of front pastedown; small owner's library ticket front pastedown. Touch of fraying to tips; spine a trifle dimmed; shallow bump to top edge of rear cover; two shallow pin scratches to front cover. A firm, fresh copy. Near fine. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish with 15 color and 11 black and white plates. Also illustrated with photographs and additional drawings by E. Denison, Malcolm Fraser and C.A. Vanderhoof. The design at the front cover is inspired by Maxfield Parrish's illustration of the "Villa Pia: In the Gardens of the Vatican". A lush, handsome production that reflects the golden age of American publishing. Each detail of the book has been carefully designed: a large, elegant typeface; generous margins; illustration captions, running heads and page numbers printed in a delicate shade of umber. As a trade publication ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS would be hard to surpass. Mrs. Wharton's text is equal to its beautiful setting. She prepared herself to write the book by first reading relevant texts in French, German and Italian, studying old plans and examining prints and drawings from Peter Paul Rubens' depictions of Genoese villas to Gianfresco Costa's etchings of villas [Dwight, EDITH WHARTON An Extraordinary Life]. She and Teddy traveled to Italy and visited some 70 villas and her account still is invaluable as a guide for the traveler as well as the gardener. For Mrs. Wharton a successful garden possessed "garden-magic", an ineffable quality that suggested 'it was born, not built'. In conveying such garden-magic, Mrs. Wharton created her own. Garrison A10.I.a. Dwight, EDITH WHARTON An Extraordinary Life, pp. 102-111.

ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS
Wharton, Edith.
New York: The Century Co., 1904.
Price: $2,500.00
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First edition. 12mo, 146pp; smooth brown cloth elaborately stamped with blind rules and gilt front and spine. T.e.g. Printed on laid paper. Front foretip a little bumped; touch of wear to tips and ends. A fresh, bright copy. Near fine. Illustrated by Alonzo Kimball with two color plates. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Set in France, an unhappily-wed American woman and her American wooer encounter the subtle manipulations of the estranged husband's French family. Such international settings, of course, pervade Henry James' novels and tales. Mrs. Wharton's use of it here, despite her being likened to James by many readers and critics, is unusual. Mrs. Wharton's familiarity with French society lends a special verisimilitude to the novella. Garrison A13.I.a. (Binding A, no priority).

MADAME DE TREYMES
Wharton, Edith.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.
Price: $300.00
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First edition. 32mo - 3-1/2 x 5", 214pp; smooth dark red cloth stamped in gilt front and spine; untrimmed fore-edge. T.e.g. Title page decorated with drawing of the head of a woman printed in pale orange. Endpapers decorated with pale orange embellishments. Endpapers a little dusty; small ink stamp ("A") at rear pastedown. Two small ink spots are front panel; mild rubbing to tips, ends and along spine joints. About very good. A sound copy. Illustrated with frontispiece by Charles Dana Gibson with other pen-and-ink illustrations (unsigned) throughout the text. The volume prints five short stories, the most noteworthy being, without question, Mrs. Wharton's, "Mrs. Manstey's View". This was the first of a six-volume set Scribner's issued, STORIES OF THE RAILROAD, STORIES OF THE SEA, STORIES OF ITALY, etc. The colophon notes that these pieces had originally appeared in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE and it was the publisher's intent to "preserve them in dainty volumes grouped under attractive subjects and decorated by a few illustrations to brighten the pages". "Mrs. Manstey's View" had made its first appearance in SCRIBNER'S in July, 1891, her first short story printed, her earlier published pieces being verse. The story itself initiates themes that will reverberate through the rest of her fiction: a woman, hedged-into a narrow and confined space, seeking to make the most of the tiny compass of her existence. The piece displayed enough of the writer's potential to make Scribner editors W.C. Brownell and Edward Burlingame take notehere was a talent to encourage. Garrison B2 (see also Garrison C12).

STORIES FROM SCRIBNER'S STORIES OF NEW YORK
(Wharton, Edith).
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.
Price: $350.00
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First edition. Second printing, first state (Book-of-the-Month Club printing). 12mo, 347pp; smooth black cloth stamped in yellow front and spine; printed orange dust jacket. Long, shallow chipping at top edge of front panel; chipping around head and foot of spine; shallow chips to top edge rear panel; lower rear foretip nicked; a narrow strip of dampstaining along rear flap fold (rear panel). The book is fresh and firm in an about very good dust jacket. About very good. This novel later made into the film THE MARRIAGE PLAYGROUND with Frederic March. Good. Garrison A42.I.b(1).

THE CHILDREN
Wharton, Edith.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928.
Price: $75.00
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First edition. Trade issue. 4to, 155pp; gray boards stamped in black and green with red cloth spine stamped in gold. A few tissue-guards lacking; rear endpapers age-toned; a touch of foxing to fore-edge.; minor scratch to front cover very fresh, near fine copy of this title with the original tissue-guards for the illustrations generally present. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Title page and other decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka. Preface by Edith Wharton. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Contributions by Sarah Bernhardt, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, et al. Plates, both black and white and color, of works by Charles Dana Gibson, Monet, Renoir, and others. The charcoal sketch Renoir drew of his son, wounded at the front, "the most moving image in the collection", may have been the origin of Wharton's only World War I novel, THE SON AT THE FRONT. Garrison D.I.I.a.

THE BOOK OF THE HOMELESS Le Livre des Sans-Foyer
(Wharton, Edith [ed]).
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916.
Price: $500.00
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First edition. (1/400 copies). 8vo, 137pp; + Table of Contents; decorated stiff wrappers with print "Yachting dans l'Archipel". Edited by Claudine Lesage with an Editor's Note. Signed by Claudine Lesage. A small library in Hyeres long had a beautifully bound manuscript written in English. When a Conrad scholar who spoke English came to the library, the librarian eventually brought out the mss. to see if the scholar could say what the manuscript was. To her astonishment scholar Claudine Lesage realized that here was an undiscovered diary of Edith Wharton, an account of a Mediterranean cruise, her first, in 1888. A remarkable discovery which shows the fledgling writer beginning to hone her powers of observation. Near fine.

THE CRUISE OF THE VANADIS
Wharton, Edith.
Amiens: Sterne, (1992).
Price: $75.00
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First English edition. Garrison's "presumed second (Empire) issue". Thick 12mo, 594pp; blue wrappers printed in black; publisher's ads at front and back (pp. 1-4 precede text and pp. 5-8 follow text). No. 565 of Macmillan's Empire Library with the copyright page stating "This Edition is intended for circulation only in India and the British Dominions over the Seas". Garrison notes that in the hardcover edition the publisher's ads are all at the rear. Wrappers creased and darkened with some small pieces lacking around spinal ends. About very good. A description of the plot of THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY appears at the back cover beginning "Undine Spragg, the heroine of Mrs. Wharton's new novel, is the only child of adoring parents whose one aim is to gratify her every want and whim". Garrison does not record this statement appearing elsewhere. The bibliographer located the hardcover edition, but not this wrappered issue which he reported on the basis of Macmillan's ads. See Garrison A21.I.b2. A very scarce form of this title, the first we have seen thus.

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
Wharton, Edith.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1913.
Price: $250.00
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Later printing. Thick 8vo, 700pp; black cloth stamped in gold front and spine; printed brown dust jacket. Edited by Louis Auchincloss with an introduction. Louis Auchincloss has framed this selection of pieces, all drawn from Mrs. Wharton's fiction, with chapters from A BACKWARD GLANCE. Dust jacket lightly used. About very good. (Garrison AA12.I.b).

THE EDITH WHARTON READER edited by Louis Auchincloss
Wharton, Edith.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1965).
Price: $30.00
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First edition. Garrison's binding A and dust jacket A. 12mo, 432pp; dark blue cloth stamped in gold front and spine; black dust jacket with white and blue lettering; "An Appreciation of Edith Wharton" by William Lyon Phelps at the back panel. Book is fresh, crisp and firm. The dust jacket shows light touches of use with the spine a little darkened as is the rear panel which shows three surface scrapes. Very good. The last novel Mrs. Wharton completed and the sequel to HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED. The two novels which Mrs. Wharton considered "one extended enterprise", are, as Cynthia Griffin Wolff describes them, "her final attempts to sum up the artist's life". Garrison A45.I.a.

THE GODS ARRIVE
Wharton, Edith.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1932.
Price: $350.00
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