THE DESCENT OF MAN and Other Stories
by Wharton, Edith
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- first
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1904. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Original red cloth.
First Edition of the author's third collection of short stories. The title story is quite appropriate more than a century later: an eminent scientist decides to have a bit of a joke on the general public by publishing a perfect parody of the kind of pseudo-scientific nonsense that... is just a little bit too believable to make disproving it an easy task. His book a resounding success, and the public clamoring for more, the professor faces a dilemma: let everybody down by exposing his satire, thus earning eternal enmity and likely ostracism, or give in to the public for more of the same [Sherrod]. This is a fine, bright copy; atypically, the red spine is NOT faded. Garrison A9.I.a. Provenance: bookplate of the collector Christopher Clark Geest.
First Edition of the author's third collection of short stories. The title story is quite appropriate more than a century later: an eminent scientist decides to have a bit of a joke on the general public by publishing a perfect parody of the kind of pseudo-scientific nonsense that... is just a little bit too believable to make disproving it an easy task. His book a resounding success, and the public clamoring for more, the professor faces a dilemma: let everybody down by exposing his satire, thus earning eternal enmity and likely ostracism, or give in to the public for more of the same [Sherrod]. This is a fine, bright copy; atypically, the red spine is NOT faded. Garrison A9.I.a. Provenance: bookplate of the collector Christopher Clark Geest.
Synopsis
A collection of ten Edith Wharton short stories, including the title piece "Descent of Man," as well as "The Other Two," "Expiation," "The Lady's Maid's Bell," "The Mission of Jane," "The Reckoning," "The Letter," "The Dilettante," "The Quicksand," and "A Venetian Night's Entertainment."
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- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15484
- Title
- THE DESCENT OF MAN and Other Stories
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1904
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (Early 20th Century); Books By Women;
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Sumner & Stillman
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About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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