Wharton, Edith, and Ogden Codman, Jr.:

$950 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

THE DECORATION OF HOUSES. First edition of Wharton's second book, albeit a collaborative production. According to Scribner Firsts (item 343), the first printing consisted of 2000 copies, of which 400 were sent in sheets to the UK for the British issue. As literary scholar Amy Kaplan notes, Wharton's The Decoration of Houses "is considered one of the first statements of modern principles of interior design" and "served a double purpose: it contributed to the professionalization of interior design, one of the new fields open to women at the turn of the century, and its language served as a metaphor for Wharton's developing views of professional authorship." A very slightly above average copy of a book usually found in decrepit state.

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