New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories (including her first short story "The Typewriter" which took second prize in a writing contest when she was only 17) and autobiographical essays, selected and introduced by the author - the last living writer from the days of the Harlem Renaissance. Preface by Mary Helen Washington. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471459.

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library by the University of California, Berkeley, 1982. First edition - A collection of four short works by the author best known for the novel "Friendly Persuasion", including two which had not been published previously. Bound in at the beginning of "Babes in the Woods" is a "reasonable' reproduction of a manuscript page on yellow legal size paper. Portrait frontispiece. #30 in the series of keepsakes issued by The Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members. 67pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. First edition -

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 16 short stories .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 16 short stories .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1956. dj. Hardcover - Her first and best known novel, the story of a family of Quakers living in rural Indiana during the Civil War - "they lived according to the ways of William Penn, but there times when their human nature could not be denied." Dustjacket with scenes from the movie starring Gary Cooper.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the rolling orchard country of California in 1921.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a trip made to England and France by West in 1929 when she was a sheltered young woman of 26 on her own for the first time. Interspersed with the letters and diary entries from 1929 are her comments 50 years later. ISBN: 0-15-1264023.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one which combines dark calamity with comedy, set in 1952 in Limoges, Louisiana (population: 905), where the main occupations "seem to be spreading juicy gossip and consoling the unfortunate with casseroles." 390 pp plus index to recipes and author's note. ISBN: 0-060183489.

New York: Viking, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thinly disguised autobiographical novel written by West in the 1920's about her obsessive love affair with Lord Beaverbrook and the disintegration of her relationship with H. G. Wells, and not published until after her death. With an afterword by Victoria Glendenning. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-670-813869.

New York: Viking, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thinly disguised autobiographical novel written by West in the 1920's about her obsessive love affair with Lord Beaverbrook and the disintegration of her relationship with H. G. Wells, and not published until after her death. With an afterword by Victoria Glendenning. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-670-813869.

London: Macmillan, 1966. Hardcover first edition - Novel set at in the early years of the twentieth century, based on actual events which helped pave the way for Lenin to rise to power in Russia. Told from the point of a view of a young girl, half-English, and the granddaughter of an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. A book which combines the elements of a spy thriller with a thoughtful probing into human motives. 435 pp.

New York: Viking, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set at in the early years of the twentieth century, based on actual events which helped pave the way for Lenin to rise to power in Russia. Told from the point of a view of a young girl, half-English, and the granddaughter of an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. A book which combines the elements of a spy thriller with a thoughtful probing into human motives. 435 pp.

New York: Viking, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set at in the early years of the twentieth century, based on actual events which helped pave the way for Lenin to rise to power in Russia. Told from the point of a view of a young girl, half-English, and the granddaughter of an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. A book which combines the elements of a spy thriller with a thoughtful probing into human motives. 435 pp.

New York: George H. Doran, 1922. Hardcover first edition - The theme of this novel is hinted at in the epigraph: 'every mother is a judge who sentences the children for the sins of the father.'

New York: Viking, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thinly disguised autobiographical novel written by West in the 1920's about her obsessive love affair with Lord Beaverbrook and the disintegration of her relationship with H. G. Wells, and not published until after her death. With an afterword by Victoria Glendenning. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-670-813869.

New York: Viking, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thinly disguised autobiographical novel written by West in the 1920's about her obsessive love affair with Lord Beaverbrook and the disintegration of her relationship with H. G. Wells, and not published until after her death. With an afterword by Victoria Glendenning. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-670-813869.

New York: Appleton, 1929. Hardcover first edition - One of the best of her later novels. First edition with the (1) on the last page of text.

New York: Scribner's, 1970. Includes The Touchstone, Sanctuary, Madame de Treymes and The Brunner Sisters, novellettes originally published between 1900 and 1916. A title in the Contemporary Classics series. ISBN: 0-684-132354.

New York: Scribner's, 1970. Includes The Touchstone, Sanctuary, Madame de Treymes and The Brunner Sisters, novellettes originally published between 1900 and 1916. A title in the Contemporary Classics series. ISBN: 0-684-132354.

New York: Viking, 1993. First edition - Wharton's last novel, uncompleted at the time of her death in 1937, completed for this edition by Marion Mainwaring (it was originally published in its uncompleted form in 1938, and even then received praise as one of her most sophisticated novels.) Set in the 1870's, this is the story of five wealthy American girls, denied entry into New York society because their parents' money is too new, who travel to England and marry lords, earls and dukes who find their beauty charming, and their money useful.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. dj. Hardcover first edition - The last novel Wharton completed, a sequel to 'Hudson River Bracketed.' Rear cover of the dust jacket has an 'appreciation' of Wharton which refers to her as 'our foremost living novelist.' From the library of author/critic Joseph Vincent Ridgely, with both his bookplate inside the front cover, and with his hand-written name on the front endpaper. 431 pp.

New York: Viking, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wharton's last novel, uncompleted at the time of her death in 1937, completed for this edition by Marion Mainwaring (it was originally published in its uncompleted form in 1938, and even then received praise as one of her most sophisticated novels.) Set in the 1870's, this is the story of five wealthy American girls, denied entry into New York society because their parents' money is too new, who travel to England and marry lords, earls and dukes who find their beauty charming, and their money useful. ISBN: 0-670-852199.

New York: Appleton, 1929. Hardcover first edition - One of the best of her later novels. First edition with the (1) on the last page of text.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer prize for fiction, the first time this award was given to a woman writer. A very inexpensively produced book and one in which the binding did not stand up well,which perhaps explains why the first edition is so uncommon. Includes the phrase from the burial service in the wedding scene. 364 pp. Accompanying this first edition is a facsimile edition from the First Edition Library. ISBN: 0-02-026478x.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1971) dj. Hardcover - A new edition of one of Wharton's later novels, originally published in 1928. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-684106469.

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, (1991). First edition - An innovative reading of the work of Edith Wharton, one which examines her lifelong preoccupation with the place of the American woman writer. Includes detailed interpretations of many of her works,including The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Ghosts and more. Notes, index. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-807843024.

New York: Barse & Hopkins, n.d, (ca 1910). Hardcover - A charming little book containing Whitaker's first and most popular story, originally published anonymously in 1878. A title in The Golden Books Series. Small format, 61 pp.

London: Harvill Press, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although Mrs Bell had been reluctant to replace her tryrannical cat Victoria, one day she found herself with two kittens - "a very elegant Siamese lady and a splendid marmalade tom." This novel (is it really fiction?) tells what life with these cats is like. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-00271454.