Wharton, Edith

The Cruise of the Vanadis

Bloomsbury Publishing. hardcover ISBN: 0747575681, Condition: VeryGood.

Aardvark Rare BooksProfessional seller

Book number: mon0000333934

Wharton, Edith

The Cruise of the Vanadis

Amiens, France, Sterne, 1992. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps, 142 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good .

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 92824

Catalogue: Literature

Wharton, Edith

The Custom of the Country

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Later printing. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (vi), 594, (ii), ads; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback. "Undine Spragg is an exquisitely beautiful but ferociously acquisitive young woman from the Midwest who comes to New York to seek her fortune. She achieves her social ambitions—but only at the highest cost to her family, her admirers, and her several husbands. Wharton lavished on Undine an imaginative energy that suggests she was as fascinated as she was appalled by the alluring monster she had created. It is the complexity of her attitude that makes The Custom of the Country—with its rich social and emotional detail and its headlong narrative power—one of the most fully realized and resonant of her works." A nice edition. Very good .

Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 18090

Catalogue: Fiction

WHARTON, Edith

The Custom of the Country

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'For Miss Reubell/from Edith Wharton/Nov. 1913." A scarce book to find signed, this is to Henrietta "Etta" Reubell, described by Wharton in her autobiography, A BACKWARD GLANCE, as "my old friend, and Henry James's" (Chapter 11). Reubell had a salon at her home where cosmopolitan expatriate writers and artists would visit including James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, and John Singer Sargent, who painted her portrait. In an 1876 letter from Paris to his brother, William James, Henry describes several women, including Reubell: "The other is a certain Miss Reubell, who has lived here always, is twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old and extremely ugly, but with something very frank, intelligent and agreeable about her. If I wanted to desire to marry an ugly Parisian-American, with money and toutes les elegances, and a very considerable capacity for development if transported into a favoring medium, Miss R would be a very good objective" (Edel, Leon: HENRY JAMES LETTERS, Volume II, pp. 41-42). James wrote more than 100 letters to Reubell. It is not known how many he received from her. This copy has 7 minor corrections made to the text, certainly by Wharton. The most recent inscribed copy we could locate at auction, which sold at Christies London in 2002 for about what we are charging for this copy, was noted as having 3 corrections, matching 3 of the 7 here. On the front pastedown is the bookplate of The American Library in Paris Inc. 1920. Bookplate stamped "Discarded" with slight offsetting to the endpaper; perforated stamp to bottom margin of one text page; slight foxing to the front endpaper and a few other pages; rear endpapers with library slip and pocket, also stamped; front hinge cracked and a little loose. Covers are bright with strong gilt, a small white ink symbol on the spine. Easily Very Good or better, despite the library markings .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 020667

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Association Copy, Modern Firsts, Inscribed, Women's Literature, 19th Century Literature, Literature: American, Women's Literature, Modern First Editions Signed Literature: American Modern First Editions Association Copy

Wharton, Edith,

The Custom of the Country.

New York, Penguin Books, 2006. Later Printing. Trade Paperback., Vg in Wraps. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 370.

Vintage BooksProfessional seller

Book number: MASTER346729I

Catalogue: Literature

Wharton, Edith

"The Custom of the Country" in Scribner's Magazine Vol. LIII, No. 3 (March 1913)

Scribner's, 1913. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Complete, original issue. Near fine in wrappers showing light wear to foredge of front panel and light tearing to spine extremities, light fading to spine. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: uh2

Wharton, Edith & Linda Wagner-Martin

The Custom of the Country

Penguin Classics 2006, Reprint, Paperback. . 0143039709 Penguin Classics; 21.6 X 13.8 X 2.4 centimeters; 400 pages. Near Fine.

Books On The BoulevardProfessional seller

Book number: 63949

Catalogue: Literature

Wharton, Edith

The Custom of the Country

New York, Everyman's Library, 1994. Hardcover. pp. 413. 8vo. Bound in navy blue cloth. Light shelfwear, rear board with discoloured marks and tide line, small purple tide line to rfep and page ends of fore-edge; good. .

Bison BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 090637

Catalogue: Literature

Wharton, Edith [1862 - 1937]

The CUSTOM Of The COUNTRY

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. 1st edition (Garrison A21.1a). Original red vertically-ribbed cloth, with gilt lettering. No dust jacket. [6], 594 pp. Crown 8vo. VG (sq & tight/spine dull).

Tavistock Books, ABAAProfessional seller

Book number: 23867

Catalogue: Literature

Wharton, Edith And Ogden Codman,

The Decoration of Houses

New York And London Charles Scribner's Sons And B. T. Batsford 1919.Hardback. No Dustjacket. Corners slightly bumped; VG. Small 4to (18cm x 23cm). Original publisher's burgundy cloth, blind stamped decoration on cover. pp xxii, 204 with 56 plates. Interior design, furniture, etc.

NaturamaProfessional seller

Book number: 51631

Catalogue: Varia

Keywords: Interior design, furniture

WHARTON EDITH

THE DEMANDIND DEAD

Peter Owen, 2007. 1st printing. With eight outstanding ghost stories, this collection highlights Edith Wharton's ability to switch genres seemingly without effort. Paperback. ISBN: 9780720612721. fine b-format paperback.

Fantastic LiteratureProfessional seller

Book number: FA19.076

Keywords: 9780720612721

WHARTON, Edith

Descent of Man and Other Stories

1904. WHARTON, Edith. THE DESCENT OF MAN and Other Stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First edition. 8vo. red cloth; t.e.g. Spine a little faded and a little light soil and rubbing to cloth. Overall very good. .

Boston Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 76711

WHARTON Edith -

Dopo. Racconto.

Milano, RCS Libri, 1997, 16mo punto metallico con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 46.

Libreria PianiProfessional seller

Book number: 2-41260

Catalogue: Letteratura nordamericana

Keywords: (Letteratura nordamericana - Racconti)

WHARTON Edith -

Dopo. Racconto.

Roma, La Repubblica, (1997) 16mo punto metallico con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 46 (I Racconti di Repubblica, 24) .

Libreria PianiProfessional seller

Book number: 2-53644

Catalogue: Letteratua nordamericana

Keywords: (Letteratua nordamericana - Racconti)

Wharton, Edith. Millicent Bell, essay

"'Eadgyth' Wharton in the New York World, 1879" [includes the complete "Only a Child"] in Yale University Library Gazette (October, 1955)

New Haven, Yale University Library, 1955. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with a small pencil erasure on the front panel, light sunning, and light wear. Complete issue. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b34335