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Wharton, Edith
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- paper and ink
Twelve Poems. London: The Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, 1926.
In 4s (9 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.; 231 x 160 mm). Blue holland boards lettered gilt, blue-gray cloth spine lettered gilt, printed blue dust-jacket; light toning to endpapers, dust-jacket defective with losses, spine crudely repaired.
In 4s (9 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.; 231 x 160 mm). Blue holland boards lettered gilt, blue-gray cloth spine lettered gilt, printed blue dust-jacket; light toning to endpapers, dust-jacket defective with losses, spine crudely repaired.
Provenance
The Holliday Bookshop, New York (ticket on lower pastedown)
Literature
Garrison A40
Catalogue Note
Limited edition, copy no. 84 of 130, printed on handmade paper, numbered and signed by Wharton. This is the only book of Wharton's that was issued in a signed edition, and (excepting the unobtainable Verses) her scarcest title.