Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, first issue, with unbroken type on page 135; in this copy, the top edges are not gilt. 195, 4, ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red gilt-lettered red cloth. Bookplate. Very good. Bookplate of Frederick and Jane Hodgdon. Davis, p. 14. Item #261641 Merle Johnson states that “there is no difference of opinion concerning the point of the broken type on p. 135 as representing a later issue , but

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