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Edith Wharton's Decoration of Houses 1897

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Edith Wharton's Decoration of Houses 1897

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Description

Heading:
Author: Wharton, Edith and Ogden Codman, Jr.
Title: The Decoration of Houses
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1897
Description:

xxii, 204 pp. Illustrated with 56 plates from photographs. (4to), 22.5x16.5 cm (9x6½"), original marbled boards, paper spine label. First Edition.

Wharton's second book, and her real debut as a writer, preceded only by an extremely rare book of poetry that was privately published. An increasingly difficult edition to obtain.

Condition

Some wear and fading to boards with rubbing to extremities, dampstain areas to edge of top board, corner tips worn and lightly bumped, sunning to spine, rubbing to spine label with small chip to bottom corner; small toned area on front pastedown where a label once was, interior bright; very good.

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Edith Wharton's Decoration of Houses 1897

Name: Edith Wharton's Decoration of Houses 1897
SKU: 57569327
Price: 650 USD
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