The Reef; The House of Mirth; Crucial Instances & Sanctuary; The Greater Inclination & The Touchstone - 4 Volumes
by Wharton, Edith
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Redmond, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. EARLY Editions. FOUR Volumes in Very Good + condition, Red cloth with dulled spine titles. Very early editions, all dated 1914 - all bound in same cloth with a decorative publishers blind stamp on front cover. Clean and tight with only minor wear at crown (all volumes are just starting to fray and have micro splits at crown). The volumes have light foxing to blank end-papers, not impacting interior pages. Classic works. Each has a b/w photo frontispiece. Author best known for "The Age of Innocence". No interior markings.A good looking set. Due to extra weight, a bit of Extra postage necessary to cover 4 volumes. So worth it.
Synopsis
The Reef, a semi-autobiographical novel that attacks the hypocrisies of New York society of which author Edith Wharton had long been a member, was praised by contemporaries as her best work since Ethan Frome. The novel challenged the morality of the times in the person of George Darrow, a diplomat who drifts into an affair with another woman after his proposal of marriage to widow Anna Leath receives a cool response.
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- Bookseller
- Margins13 Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005176
- Title
- The Reef; The House of Mirth; Crucial Instances & Sanctuary; The Greater Inclination & The Touchstone - 4 Volumes
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1914
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Classics; fiction; turn of the century fiction; woman author'; Set;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....