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Pascal, Blaise
Les Provinciales
Les Provinciales
Edited by Ernest Havet. Second of two volumes. Bound in half blue morocco.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Gesammelte Briefe
Gesammelte Briefe
Published in 5 volumes, but with only 4 remaining in Wharton's library. Bound half calf leather with marbled boards and endpapers.
A few, spare pencil markings have been added to volume 1, which also contains a bookseller's mark on the rear fly.
A few, spare pencil markings have been added to volume 1, which also contains a bookseller's mark on the rear fly.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Der Wille zur Macht
The Will to Power, Part II. Volume IX (of 10). Some penciled markings have been added to the text. A penciled, handwritten note (likely from a bookseller) appears inserted at the front, listing the book's author and title.
Musset, Alfred de
Comédies et Proverbes
Vol. 5 of a 7-volume, sextodecimo (16mo) set that includes: La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle Comédies et Proverbes (3 volumes)Nouvelles et Contes Premières Poésies Poésies Nouvelles Set is uniformly bound in half red morocco leather with gilt…
Musset, Alfred de
Comédies et Proverbes
Vol. 5 of a 7-volume, sextodecimo (16mo) set that includes: La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle Comédies et Proverbes (3 volumes)Nouvelles et Contes Premières Poésies Poésies Nouvelles Set is uniformly bound in half red morocco leather with gilt…
Musset, Alfred de
Poésies Nouvelles
Vol. 2 of a 7-volume, sextodecimo (16mo) set that includes: La Confession d'un Enfant du SiècleComédies et Proverbes (3 volumes)Nouvelles et Contes Premières PoésiesPoésies NouvellesSet is uniformly bound in half red morocco leather with gilt ruling…
Kingsley, Henry
Austin Elliot and the Harveys
Austin Elliot and the Harveys
2nd edition. Illustrated, with a frontispiece from a drawing by Walter Paget.
Kingsley was a supporter of the 19th c. English religious movement known as "muscular Christianity" (of which Wharton's associate, Theodor Roosevelt, was also an…
Kingsley was a supporter of the 19th c. English religious movement known as "muscular Christianity" (of which Wharton's associate, Theodor Roosevelt, was also an…
Mérimée, Prosper
Carmen
Carmen
Bound in quarter vellum with marbled boards and endpapers. One of an edition of 995 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper (much like Wharton's other Mérimée editions, all published through the "Collection des Chefs-D'Oeuvres"
Martineau, Mrs. Philip (Alice)
The Secrets of Many Gardens
The Secrets of Many Gardens
With illustrations and inscription on the fly: "Edith Wharton With love from one gardener to another Alice Martineau March 1924." Wharton provided the Introduction to another of Martineau's works, Gardening in Sunny Lands (Cobden-Sanderson, 1924).
Lubbock, Percy
The Region Cloud
The Region Cloud
Bound in marbled boards with a note from the publisher included: "With the author's compliments." The note is pro forma, but the words "the author's" have been handwritten in pencil. Lubbock's only novel, which Wharton privately criticized in a…
Lubbock, Percy
Earlham
Earlham
A memoir recounting Lubbock's childhood days at Earlham Hall, the home of his maternal grandparents in Norfolk. The book was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922.
The volume includes a handwritten note from the publisher, Jonathan…
The volume includes a handwritten note from the publisher, Jonathan…
Jekyll, Gertrude
Lilies for English Gardens
Lilies for English Gardens
"A Guide for Amateurs," published through the Country Life library series. With numerous illustrations and photographs.
The volume has been marked in several places by Wharton, who has also added an annotation ("June") to p. 30.
The volume has been marked in several places by Wharton, who has also added an annotation ("June") to p. 30.
Irving, Washington
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Volume 2 of a multi-volume set. Signed: "G.F. Jones," indicating that the book previously belonged to Wharton's father, George Frederick Jones.
Epictetus
The Discourses:
with the Encheiridion and Fragments
The Discourses:
with the Encheiridion and Fragments
Vol. I (of II). Translated by George Long. Published in two volumes. With some penciled markings and some unopened sections.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Essays
Essays
First series (i.e. volume 1 of 2).
New, revised edition. Several essays have been marked and underlined.
New, revised edition. Several essays have been marked and underlined.