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MADAME DE TREYMES
by Wharton, Edith
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- first
- Condition
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1907. Wenzell, A. B.. With Illustrations. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Original greyish-brown cloth decorated in gilt.
First Edition of this novella, illustrated with two color plates by Alonzo Kimball. As Fanny Frisbie [the protagonist] in her New York days, she had been lively, dashing, and free-spirited. Now, married to a dissolute French nobleman and hemmed in by the invincible forces of the Faubourg aristocracy, she has become a very different person... If there is a gain in refinement, there is a loss in resilience and spontaneity... Edith Wharton seems to have been suggesting that the psychic imprisonment of women could occur anywhere and even under the most gracious of conditions [Lewis]. This is a close-to-fine copy, very slightly rubbed at the corners; a few leaves were roughly opened. Garrison A13.I.a, binding A ("priority undetermined"). Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature of "Beatrice Olga Simpson | Briarcliff | New York | 1917": a Californian who lived in three centuries (1899-2001), she attended the Briarcliff School in NY and later (1924) became Mrs. Henry Bishop Grandin.
First Edition of this novella, illustrated with two color plates by Alonzo Kimball. As Fanny Frisbie [the protagonist] in her New York days, she had been lively, dashing, and free-spirited. Now, married to a dissolute French nobleman and hemmed in by the invincible forces of the Faubourg aristocracy, she has become a very different person... If there is a gain in refinement, there is a loss in resilience and spontaneity... Edith Wharton seems to have been suggesting that the psychic imprisonment of women could occur anywhere and even under the most gracious of conditions [Lewis]. This is a close-to-fine copy, very slightly rubbed at the corners; a few leaves were roughly opened. Garrison A13.I.a, binding A ("priority undetermined"). Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature of "Beatrice Olga Simpson | Briarcliff | New York | 1917": a Californian who lived in three centuries (1899-2001), she attended the Briarcliff School in NY and later (1924) became Mrs. Henry Bishop Grandin.
Synopsis
Madame de Treymes an important, early Edith Wharton novel about the differences between American and European society, published the year she left the United States to take up permanent residency in France.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15479
- Title
- MADAME DE TREYMES
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Illustrator
- Wenzell, A. B.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Lady
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (Early 20th Century); Books By Women;
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About the Seller
Sumner & Stillman
Biblio member since 2009
Yarmouth, Maine
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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