The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

$450 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, first printing, first American issue with no ads at rear. Bound in publisher's red ribbed cloth stamped in gilt, ruled in blind on the front cover, top edge gilt. Very Good with lean to binding, wear to cloth and slight fading to spine. Front and rear hinges exposed and tender, light toning to contents. Edith Wharton's classic novel of upper class moral corruption.

• Printing: first

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