8vo. [4], 210pp, [10]. With terminal publisher's catalogue. Original publisher's red cloth boards lettered and decorated black and gilt. With the bookplate of Roberti Marchionis de Crewe to front pastedown. Boards worn and marked, corners and spine ends bumped. Toned endpapers and light marking throughout.

A neat first edition copy of Edith Wharton (1862- 1937)'s third published work. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature (The Age of Innocence, 1920), Wharton was also a prolific short story writer, poet, and published extensively on architecture and travel. An avid traveller, she settled in France before the First World War; her contributions to which appointed her Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, the country's highest award.