Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 16,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
IN SCARCE DUST JACKET WHARTON, EDITH. The Age of Innocence. 8vo, publisher's red cloth lettered in black, a few spots of mild discoloration; pastedowns and fly-leaves browned and spotted, else clean internally; dust jacket, several short edge tears and chips backed with old cellotape on verso, overall soiling but flaps mostly clean, $2.00 price intact. New York: Appleton and Co., 1920

Additional Details

first edition in the exceedingly scarce first issue dust jacket indicated by the absent mention of the Columbia "Pulitzer" Prize that Wharton was awarded in 1921.