[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Association Copy SIGNED by Edith Wharton of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

[Charles Agvent]

WHARTON, Edith. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. New York & London: D. Appleton and 
Company, 1920. First Edition. Second Printing with "2" on the last page 
of text. Original red cloth, neatly rebacked with nearly all of the 
original spine retained. Winner of the second Pulitzer Prize ever given, 
this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to 
her close friends: "To my dear Matilda/& Walter Gay/Edith 
Wharton/December 1920." In addition, 14 pages of the text have brief 
pencil corrections by Wharton. A copy of Wharton's ARTEMIS TO ACTAEON 
inscribed to Matilda Gay sold at Sotheby's in 1976. We have been unable 
to locate any other signed copies of this title, Wharton's best known 
book, offered for sale in at least 30 years. Cloth rubbed, spine faded, 
still Very Good and exceptionally scarce when signed.

When Walter Gay died in 1937, the same year Wharton died, he was dubbed 
the "Dean of American Painters in France" in his New York Times 
obituary. One of his better known paintings is one of Edith Wharton's 
bedroom, which he inscribed to her. Matilda Gay attended Wharton's 
funeral. (#015722)        $25,000.00

http://home.ptd.net/~chagvent/015722.JPG

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