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Welcome to Edith Wharton's Library! This site displays searchable image files for the books contained in Wharton's library at The Mount, her historic estate in Lenox, MA.

Browse Items (13 total)

2005_047_1016_1.pdf
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.

2005_047_1015_7.pdf
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.

2005_047_1019_1.pdf
In three volumes. Bound in quarter red morocco leather with gilt decorations on the spine, marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Some penciled markings have been added to volumes II and III.

2005_047_1018.pdf
Book has half vellum, morocco label.

2005_047_1017.pdf
Bound in quarter red morocco leather with gilt decorations on the spine, marbled boards, and marbled endpapers.

A few penciled markings have been added to the text.

Nietzsche Werke IX_1.pdf
The Will to Power, Part I. Volume VIII (of 10). This volume contains many markings and annotations. On the fly, there are notes in Wharton's own hand. These feature statements pertaining to her work on the novel The Fruit of the Tree (1907),…

2005_047_1015_6.pdf
On the Geneaology of Morality. Volume VII (of 10). A few sections have been marked in pencil.

2005_047_1015_5.pdf
The Gay Science. Volume VI (of 10); several sections marked and ticked.

2005_047_1015_4.pdf
The Dawn. Volume V (of 10); some sections marked.

2005_047_1015_3_1.pdf
Human, All Too Human. Volume III and IV (of 10). Contains a penciled, handwritten note (likely from a bookseller) listing the title and author of the volume. Penciled markings, including question marks, have been added to the text in places.

2005_047_1015_2.pdf
Untimely Meditations. Volume II (of 10)

2005_047_1015_1.pdf
The Birth of Tragedy. Volume 1 (of 10).

2005_047_0991.pdf
With penciled annotations and markings, including the dates of Nietzsche's birth and death ("1844-1900"), which have been added to the title page.
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