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SHE FLEW THE COOP: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex, and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 68976More details Price: $17.50 -
SUNFLOWER.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 47488More details Price: $16.00 -
SUNFLOWER.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 15878More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BIRDS FALL DOWN.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very good in paper covered boards, no dj. (some spotting to the edges of the textblock.)
Book ID: 16852More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BIRDS FALL DOWN.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 18434More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BIRDS FALL DOWN.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to spine of dj. light toning to pages)
Book ID: 84352More details Price: $16.50 -
THE JUDGE.
Edition: First US printing.
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.'
Condition: Good in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine, gold pane on front cover (lettering rubbed and faded on spine, binding defect caused puckering to the cloth along the sides of the spine.)
Book ID: 27331More details Price: $12.50 -
SUNFLOWER.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, remainder line)
Book ID: 46458More details Price: $12.50 -
SUNFLOWER.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46459More details Price: $17.50 -
HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very good+ in very dark blue cloth with gold lettering - lettering on spine is dulled, but still readable, otherwise the book is very clean and tight.
Book ID: 24910More details Price: $40.00 -
MADAME DE TREYMES AND OTHERS: Four Novelettes.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Good condition (some underlining in the title story only.)
Book ID: 25357More details Price: $10.00 -
MADAME DE TREYMES AND OTHERS: Four Novelettes.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 25395More details Price: $9.00 -
THE BUCCANEERS
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 27847More details Price: $24.50 -
THE GODS ARRIVE.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering in very good dust jacket (some soiling to top edge of textblock, rubbing to folds of dj and light edgewear - overall the rather uncommon dustjacket is in much better condition than usually found. )
Book ID: 29619More details Price: $120.00 -
THE BUCCANEERS
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a tight, unread copy, but some bumping to the edges.)
Book ID: 8826More details Price: $20.00 -
HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean (some wear to the corners, hinges reinforced, lacking the dj.)
Book ID: 20968More details Price: $25.00 -
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.
Edition: First printing, first issue.
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.
Condition: Fair condition only in red cloth with black lettering (the backstrip is still attached, but split along the rear side, and missing the bottom one inch or so - sunning to the backstrip and edge of the rear board near the spine, other light wear to the covers, although the contents are overall very good.). While it is not unattractive with a mylar cover, this is a copy worth restoration. The facsimile edition is fine in a fine dustjacket in a very near fine slipcase.
Book ID: 52483More details Price: $500.00 -
THE CHILDREN.
Edition: First thus- reprint..
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.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (price-clipped, some edgewear and chipping to dj).
Book ID: 84473More details Price: $16.50 -
![EDITH WHARTON'S LETTERS FROM THE UNDERWORLD: Fictions of Women and Writing. by [Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937] Waid, Candace](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/86049---200.jpg?v=1664080160)
EDITH WHARTON'S LETTERS FROM THE UNDERWORLD: Fictions of Women and Writing.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86049More details Price: $18.50 -
MISS TOOSEY'S MISSION.
Edition: Gift edition.
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.
Condition: Fine in brown paper covered boards with a cream spine, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, Calling card with gift inscription on reverse laid in.
Book ID: 60848More details Price: $15.00 -
LIVING WITH MINKA AND CURDY: A Marmalade Cat and His Siamese Wife.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering in a near fine dustjacket (light soiling to back cover of dj).
Book ID: 84356More details Price: $19.50 -
BEYOND THE GLASS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Regnery, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a young woman's descent into madness and of her recovery. Hard to find in the hardcover first edition.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some erasable penciled comments on front endpaper, light edgewear and rubbing to dj.)
Book ID: 18337More details Price: $50.00 -
THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2009). First edition - Psychic suspense novel set in Charleston, South Carolina. Issued as a trade paperback original. 335 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58538More details Price: $18.00 -
EVELESS EDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which is "at once a love story and a tale of intrigue set in the tumultuous world of international journalism." SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169516).
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 47624More details Price: $25.00 -
BET THEY'LL MISS US WHEN WE'RE GONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0161396.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 49129More details Price: $13.50 -
BET THEY'LL MISS US WHEN WE'RE GONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-06-0161396.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (a tight copy, appears unread, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 21501More details Price: $32.00 -
HERSELF IN LOVE and Other Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth book, and first collection of short stories - Ariel Dorfman called them 'intense, enigmatic, undeceiving; these stories stalked and seduced me.'. ISBN: 0-670-815527.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 25994More details Price: $40.00 -
SEPARATE CHECKS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, in an unusual format, with short stories written by the protagonist - Ellery McQueen who is, when the novel opens, a patient at a private psychiatric hospital - inside the overall story . 271 pp. ISBN: 0-394-532554.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page by Wiggins. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 28748More details Price: $60.00 -
BET THEY'LL MISS US WHEN WE'RE GONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0161396.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30800More details Price: $25.00 -
SEPARATE CHECKS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989.). SIGNED - Her third novel, in an unusual format, with short stories written by the protagonist - Ellery McQueen who is, when the novel opens, a patient at a private psychiatric hospital - inside the overall story . SIGNED on the title page. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0972076.
Condition: Good condition (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 32004More details Price: $12.00
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