[Rarebooks] FS: Edith Wharton FIGHTING FRANCE with Fine INSCRIPTION by Wharton

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog of 85 new arrivals:

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WHARTON, Edith. FIGHTING FRANCE. FROM DUNKERQUE TO BELFORT. New York: 
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. First Edition. Original red cloth, 
lettered in gilt; published 24 November 1915 in an edition of 5400 
copies. This copy with a small hand-written card paper-clipped to the 
top edge of the front endpaper: "from/Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt/Oyster 
Bay/L.I." In addition the book is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Wharton on the 
front endpaper with a few lines of verse in the style of Arthur 
Sullivan: "'Watchman, what of the night?/Through the storm-wrack send 
thy glance!'/'In the East I see a light--/That light is France.'/Edith 
Wharton/Dec. 1, 1916/Paris." A scarce book to find signed, especially 
with such a fine inscription. The most recent copy we could locate at 
auction, in THE EARLE J. BERNHEIMER COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS OF 
AMERICAN AUTHORS, sold in 1950. Spine sunned, gilt still clear. Near 
Fine. (#019190)        $8,500.00

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