WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
"They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods": First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
$750.00
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Item Number: RRB-150097
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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 publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Ethan Frome.
$750.00
In Stock
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