A very good copy of the 1920 First Edition published by D. Appleton & Co., New York. The rare first printing of Age of Innocence with "(1)" at end of text on page 365. Condition: 8vo 365 pages - Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black; lacking the dust jacket. Wear to the edges and corners, with some spotting and uneven fading to the cloth boards. New spine added with the original backstrip pasted down. A bit of cello tape visible on the upper covers and on the spine title. foxing and toning to the endpapers with the armorial book plate of renowned physicians Drs. Fritz and Harriet Hyde, founders of Greenwich Hospital affixed to the front pastedown. The booksellers original $2.00 price written in pencil on the front free endpaper. There is a one-inch chip to the paper along the outer edge of a few interior pages, not impacting the text block. Overall, a very good copy of the 1920 first edition. The book that made Edith Wharton the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1921.
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$995.00Price
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